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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 ".
"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" is the lead single to American singer Donna Summer's eponymous tenth studio album (1982). The track was nominated at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards in 1983 for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance .
When the rhythm and music are 'in clave,' a great natural 'swing' is produced, regardless of the tempo. All musicians who write and/or interpret Cuban-based music must be 'clave conscious,' not just the percussionists. [19] Salsa is a potent expression of clave, and clave became a rhythmic symbol of the musical movement, as its popularity spread.
[1] "Rodriguez’s Ven Devórame Otra Vez (Come devour me once more), with its celebrated reference to moistened bed linen, was a prime example [of salsa romantica].” [1] Rodríguez was awarded "Tropical Song of the Year" at the Lo Nuestro Awards in 1989 for the hit, "Ven, Devórame Otra Vez". [11] The song charted #10 on the Hot Latin Tracks ...
Salsa musician Eddie Palmieri once said "When you talk about our music, you talk about before, or after, Arsenio.....Lilí Martínez was my mentor". [38] Several songs of Arsenio's band, like Fuego en el 23 , El Divorcio , Hacheros pa' un palo , Bruca maniguá , No me llores and El reloj de Pastora were later covered by many salsa bands (like ...
Suzannah Clark, a music professor at Harvard, connected the piece's resurgence in popularity to the harmonic structure, a common pattern similar to the romanesca.The harmonies are complex, but combine into a pattern that is easily understood by the listener with the help of the canon format, a style in which the melody is staggered across multiple voices (as in "Three Blind Mice"). [1]
For Buddy's version, Peter Applebome of The New York Times called "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger" his quintessential song. [7] The Daily Gazette said, "the writing is deceptive, plain-spoken but sophisticated, and it takes immense control and restraint to make music this multi-layered sound so backwoods simple." [5]
Later, the song re-entered at number 49, on 27 April 2014, after the release of its music video, becoming that week "best comeback". [16] The song kept on climbing the following weeks, until it reached number 44, on 11 May 2014. [17] However, after the official release as a single, the song climbed to number 22. [18]