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  2. Spanish tinge - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish tinge is an Afro-Latin rhythmic touch that spices up the more conventional 4 4 rhythms commonly used in jazz and pop music. The phrase is a quotation from Jelly Roll Morton. In his Library of Congress recordings, after referencing the influence of his own French Creole culture in his music, he noted the Spanish (read Cuban) presence:

  3. Tresillo (rhythm) - Wikipedia

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    The habanera was the first of many Cuban music genres which enjoyed periods of popularity in the United States, and reinforced and inspired the use of tresillo-based rhythms in African American music. [b] From the perspective of African American music, the habanera rhythm can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat. [19]

  4. Laurindo Almeida - Wikipedia

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    Laurindo José de Araújo Almeida Nobrega Neto, popularly known as Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995), was a Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music. He was one of the pioneers in the creation of bossa nova .

  5. Music of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs from the 1980s

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    The Hot Latin Songs chart (formerly Hot Latin 50 and Hot Latin Tracks), [1] published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart based on Latin music airplay. The data were compiled by the Billboard chart and research department with information from 70 Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and Puerto Rico. [2]

  7. Latin rock - Wikipedia

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    American band Santana in 1971. In 1969, after the release of the debut album by Santana, the term "Latin rock" appeared in the US and other parts of the world. [32] It was an attempt to describe the band's music style as a fusion of Latin American and Caribbean rhythms, soul, jazz, funk, blues, psychedelia and rhythm and blues based on rock music.

  8. Guajeo - Wikipedia

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    The rhythm guitar plays all of the offbeats, the exact pattern of the rhythm guitar in Cuban son. According to the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music , the lead guitar part "recalls the blue-tinged guitar solos heard in bluegrass and rockabilly music of the 1950s, with its characteristic insistence on the opposition of the major-third and ...

  9. List of best-selling Latin music artists - Wikipedia

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    Music journalists and musicologists define Latin music as musical styles from Spanish-speaking areas of Latin America and from Spain. [10] [11] Music from Brazil is usually included in the genre and music from Portugal is occasionally included. [8] [12] Either definition of "Latin music" may be used for inclusion in this list.