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Merenhouse, merenrap or electronic merengue,Mambo o Mambo de Calle is a style of Dominican merengue music formed by blending with dancehall reggae and hip hop. [1] The mix of Latin music, house music and dancehall started in NYC in the late 1980s. Merenhouse usually combines rap singing (talk-singing) with actual singing.
Salsa is a potent expression of clave, and clave became a rhythmic symbol of the musical movement, as its popularity spread. Clave awareness within the salsa community has served as a cultural "boundary marker", creating an insider/outsider dichotomy, between Cuban and non-Cuban, and between Latino and non-Latino.
Pochy y Su Cocoband, also called Cocoband, was a Dominican Republic merengue group in the 1990s. The group was founded in 1989 by "Pochy Familia" born Manuel Alfonso Vásquez Familia (September 17, 1966), and had a number of hit albums with the Kubaney label.
Milly Quezada was born as Milagros Quezada Borbon on May 21, 1955. She is a singer in Latin America. Her hometown is Dominican Republic. She graduated from New York City College with a communications degree. Then she was known as the Queen of Merengue, or La Reina de Merengue. She had a group with her two brothers and sister called Milly, Y Los ...
RMM Records, also known as RMM Records & Video Corp, was an independent Latin music record label established in 1987 and based in New York City. The label was most active during the late 1980s and early 1990s and produced primarily salsa, Latin jazz, and merengue music. At its peak, RMM Records employed 55 staff members and had distribution ...
Salsa romántica (Spanish of 'romantic salsa') is a soft form of salsa music that emerged between the mid-1980s and early 1990s in New York City, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It has been criticised for it being supposedly a pale imitation of "real" salsa, often called " salsa dura ".
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (pictured in 2011) was the first musical act to reach number one on the Tropical Albums chart in 1985. They also had the most number one albums of the 1980s with a total of five records. In June 1985, Billboard magazine established Tropical Albums (initially called Tropical/Salsa Latin Albums), a chart that ranks the best-selling tropical albums in the United ...
Salsa Mixes y Más Mixes (1997) Alegrías y Penas (1999) Navidad Con Tito Rojas (1999) 20th Anniversary (1999) Rompiendo Noches (2000) Quiero Llegar a Casa (2001) Auténticamente En Vivo (2001) 10th Anniversary (2002) Canta el Gallo (2003) El de Siempre (2003) Perseverencia (2003) Doble Platino (2003) Tradicional (2004) Borrón y Cuenta Nueva ...