"She cut two Latin sides that were released on the small Seeco label: Chano Pozo's Caliente and Tierra va tembla, a song she had learned on the streets of New York as a teenager. 'It's an Afro-Cuban number', she later said, 'and I know these people, know their cult. From living in certain parts of New York 'Tierra Va Tembla' is as close to me as my own Negro spirituals'.