This was the love of Celia Cruz and Pedro

During a TV special Celia Cruz told the love story she lived with Pedro Knight.

Celia and Peter they got married on July 14, 1962 in Connecticut. Contracts and tours of the United States continued, but he always let his wife take the reins of her professional artistic life, there were individual contracts, although he continued to travel as one of his musicians. When the time came to make an irrevocable decision, he talked with Roger Martinez and told him: “Rogelio, I have a problem. Or I let Celia travel everywhere alone and continue with the Sonora. Or I leave Sonora and go with Celia. But the problem is that I married Celia… Roger… not with Sonora Matancera. So I have to go with her. And if I have to choose between Celia and the trumpet, I choose Celia”. However, Rogelio gave him the appropriate permission and told him that if he decided to come back, his position would always be available. Later, he began to become his manager and exclusive representative, leaving the Sonora Matancera and her inseparable trumpet on April 30, 1966.

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Pedro took steps to help the career of his wife, who also became famous and highly respected through Latin America. He would be interviewed multiple times on television shows and made many friends in show business, including Maria Celeste Arraraswho paid his respects to him almost three months after the death of Celia Cruzsaying on television “remember (that) we all (we) like you”.

The death of Celia Cruz devastated Knight. Celia Cruz called him «Cotton Head», «Perucho». He was by her side as she suffered from cancer, and on more than one occasion expressed his hope that she would recover.