Katy de la Cruz

Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress (died 2004)

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Born: February 13, 1907
Died: November 10, 2004
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
Birth year: 1907

About Katy de la Cruz

Katy de la Cruz was a leading Filipina singer who specialized in jazz vocals and torch songs in a long career that lasted eight decades. Hailed as "The Queen of Filipino Jazz" and as "The Queen of Bodabil", she was, by the age of 18, the highest paid entertainer in the Philippines. De la Cruz also appeared in films and received a FAMAS Best Supporting Actress Award in 1953. After jazz became popular in the Philippines in the 1920s, de la Cruz adapted her singing style and soon mastered the art of scat singing, which became a trademark of hers.

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The world when Katy de la Cruz was born

Katy de la Cruz was born in 1907. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1907

Best-selling book"The Lady of the Decoration" – Frances Little

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentChicago Cubs win first of back-to-back World Series titles
Top headlinePanic of 1907 — financial crisis leads to Federal Reserve creation
Technology milestoneFirst commercial helicopter design
World population~1.67B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
U.S. population86.0M

1907 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Katy de la Cruz's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1907	2026
Population	86.0M	341 million

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