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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 original artists who participated in the salsa explosion of the ’70s should have made new recordings and organized a tour that would, in itself, help to revive the catalog. But they did none ...
There are other common rhythms found in salsa music: the chord beat, the tumbao, and the Montuno rhythm. The chord beat (often played on cowbell) emphasizes the odd-numbered counts of salsa: 1, 3, 5 and 7 while the tumbao rhythm (often played on congas) emphasizes the "off-beats" of the music: 2, 4, 6, and 8.
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 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.
The late Cuban American singer Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa, will be the first Afro Latina to appear on the U.S. quarter. Cruz was one of the 20th century’s most celebrated Latin ...
Harvey Averne is an American record producer, and the founder of CoCo Records, as well as its many subsidiaries.Established in 1972, CoCo was a label specializing in Afro-Cuban and Latin American Popular music, with special emphasis on the "New York Sound", commonly referred to as "Salsa".