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Huey Dunbar, James "Da Barba" de Jesus, Yahaira Vargas (Miss YaYa), Sergio George Dark Latin Groove ( DLG ) is a salsa band that mixes salsa , reggae and hip-hop . The group was brought together in New York by producer Sergio George (who also signed them to his record company Sir George Records) and included Huey Dunbar , Fragancia, and James ...
The term "salsa" was coined by Johnny Pacheco in the 1960s in New York, as an umbrella term for Cuban dance music being played in the city at the time. [2] Salsa as a dance emerged soon after, being a combination of mambo (which was popular in New York in the 1950s) as well as Latin dances such as Son and Rumba as well as American dances such as swing, hustle, and tap.
Jesús Alejandro Pérez (nicknamed Niño Jesús, "Baby Jesus") is a Cuban-Canadian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader based in Montreal and Los Angeles.He is a member of Ricardo Lemvo's Makina Loca, a salsa band that combines Cuban and Angolan music styles.
Larry Harlow stretched out from the typical salsa record formula with his opera Hommy (1973), inspired by The Who's Tommy album, and also released his critically acclaimed La Raza Latina, a Salsa Suite. In 1975, Roger Dawson created the "Sunday Salsa Show" over WRVR FM, which became one of the highest-rated radio shows in the New York market ...
Based on Cuban music in rhythm, tempo, bass line, riffs and instrumentation, Salsa represents an amalgamation of musical styles including rock, jazz, and other Latin American musical traditions. Modern salsa (as it became known worldwide) was forged in the pan-Latin melting pot of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Francia Raísa and Selena Gomez are getting to know each other all over again. While speaking about her new salsa created in partnership with La Victoria, the actor opened up about a rocky period ...
The surprise streaming star of the album arrived in “Baile Inolvidable,” a salsa track which went #1 on the U.S. Apple Music chart.
A notable salsa performer from the Dominican Republic is José Alberto, known as "El Canario" (The Canary) for his widely adored voice, who was born in Santo Domingo in 1958. Alberto relocated to Puerto Rico with his family and later to New York in the early 1970s, where he sang with several orchestras.