We remember Cuban-born American singer Angela Alvarez, who 2 years ago became the oldest person to win Best New Artist at the Latin Grammy awards. She died this week at the age of 97. Cuban American ...

Ángela Álvarez, who died Dec. 6 at 97, always dreamed of becoming a professional singer. Growing up in Cuba before the revolution, she played the piano and guitar and wrote her first song at 14, ...

Her only album made her a media star after she had raised four children and worked as a house cleaner — proving, she said, that “it’s never too late.” By Michael S. Rosenwald Angela Alvarez, a ...