glitterattigroup I loved this on so many levels...The story was well written and truly took me everywhere Celia was. I felt as though I was actually in those places, feeling what she felt... I loved the love between Celia and Pedro, rarely do you see this type of unconditional love last through a lifetime.The music, the performances were absolutely wonderful, as were the costumes!Celia Cruz impacted so many people and so many lives. TELEMUNDO THANK YOU FOR CHRONICLING THE LIFE OF CELIA CRUZ! AN ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH! GREAT JOB!

cmventur ****Some spoilers***I watched a few episodes back when it first came out and decided to watch it on Netflix as my next binge show. First and foremost this a biopic telenovela. As such characters and story lines have been embellished or created for drama and entertainment. If you expected a accurate biopic move along. People were upset about the additional characters and story lines taking center stage must understand what medium this show is produced for telenovelas are shown long runs and the main story is sprinkled in to milk the episode#. That said the production value is superb almost movie-like. Costumes, set designs and such were very nice, the acting was pretty good and they choose people who resembled the real life Celia and Pedro albeit much more attractive as TV shows do. The music had the Cuban-flavor despite it not being completely accurate as others noted only 3 songs of hers actually being sung in the show, blame Sony for that they own her music catalogue and charged the studio an arm and a leg for the rights. Overall its really entertaining, beautiful to look at from costumes, sets and actors overall an easy 10/10 as a telenovela, as a TV drama i would say its a 7-8 out of 10.

lozada-64987 I have been watching Celia since day 1 and it was great upto they just dismissed Gammy and left us hanging that he was never found or the boat his story was carried on for so many days and then finally he was just cut off and so was Rene, they continued with Mario, Raquel, Lola and her two lovers, of course Celia and Pedro, but they just got rid of the gay couple, (Not cool)! They even kept Nori up to this day and then last night all of a sudden she has a daughter and husband, (No story line on that) Celia's little wanna be son is all of a sudden grown, (what's up with that?) the start of this series was awesome and all of a sudden they just started speeding through everything, including Alberto was cut off, come on dude, you screwed up after you just started speeding through after Gammy, Now Lola's step-father comes back as this reborn manipulating preacher and stupid Lola still falls for it, can she be any more stupid, would really like to know how could you just cut off the gay couple, there is a Gay Latino population here to. don't get me wrong I'm only watching it because I want to see what surprise you have for us at the end and at this point I have a big feeling, I'm going to be disappointed

KATO-SUBZERO Wednesday, 9 December 2015 English is my first language, but I speak, read and write Spanish well, all self taught. I am thrilled this show is on the aire. I love this show although it is Not an official authorized version, but I love it for a few reasons.1. This is the second time ever or in many years that on a major Spanish television network such as Univision or Telemundo that there have been my people {Mi gente} African Latinos represented on the two biggest Spanish networks. I have often felt and said that Univision and Telemundo are prejudice and racist in the fact that every single soap opera/telenovela only show White skin Hispanics on all of their soap operas, which is Not a fair representation of All Latinos.The same racism exist on Spanish magazine covers such as "People in Español", "TV & Notas" and other Latin American magazines. For years, I subscribed and supported such Spanish language magazines until about 4 years ago due to there were Never in any dark skin Latinos on their magazine covers. Only when Celia Cruz died was she put on the covers. Once in a rare while when there was a dark skin Hispanic, they would be inside the magazine or on the cover with several White skin Hispanics thereby reducing the dark skin Hispanic on the cover. I cancelled my subscription nearly 4 years ago.The Univision and Telemundo producers seem to either forget or ignore that there are thousands of dark skin Latinos from Cuba, Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic who are equally talented and gifted equal to their White skin Hispanic counterparts.If it were Not for the United States America giving African Spanish speaking Latinos such as Laz Alonso, Tatyana Ali, Gina Torres, Zoe Saldaña, Lauren Velez, Cristina Milian and former t.v series Starsky & Hutch co-star, Antonio Fargas and others a chance to work in films, they would not be working at all. All of the dark skin Hispanics speak Spanish fluently,but you will never see them on Univision nor Telemundo. There is only one pretty dark skin Colombian newscaster on Telemundo, Ilia Calderon. Yo soy un Africano Americano con un corazon Latino. Ellos son Mi gente. I am so happy and proud to see dark skin Latinos in film and television. The music of Salsa was created by Africans and Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians Latinos. Merengue was created by Africans and Dominican Latinos.The only other all Hispanic show that was shown with a very dark skin Latino in a lead role was Colombian actor, Walter Diaz in the soap opera/telenovela "Adrian Esta Visita" aka "Luzbel Esta Visita" in 2001.2. The pretty JeirMaria Osorio {Puerto Rico} who was in a small supporting role of a Brazilian wife in the "Fast & Furious 5" plays the lead role of African Cubana salsa superstar Celia Cruz. She is excellent in this role, but she is so much prettier than Celia was in real life. Also, African Latino actor Modesto Lacen of Puerto Rico is doing a great job as well as the rest of the cast.Pretty Colombiana, Carolina Gaitan and African Colombiana, Brenda Hanst are equally talented as well as cute. All of these talented dark skin Hispanics truly deserve to been seen on prime time Univision and Telemundo soap opera shows, but sadly due to racism in the Latin TV industry they will Not be seen beyond "Celia" program until another program based on a famous African Latino/Latina is made famous.