The salsa

Although you are known that the salsa was born by the middle of the decade of the sixty in New York, daughter besides Cuban parents, Puerto Ricans and some American musicians that had been contagious of the Latin spirit; the seed of this rhythm, as well as of the Caribbean music in general, you come from Africa: the slaves who brought were of there the drum, key instruments of the Caribbean rhythms.

You have your precedents in the glorious years forty, the time of the big orchestras that you/they played in casinos when in Cuba it governed Wiper, and in United States artists like Benny sounded I Lived or Core. Little by little, the Latin music infected North America. In the sixty, the Hispanic youths felt minority and they began to claim your rights. Your political conscience grew and they approached to your roots from the Latin difference. You are here when the salsa is born.

As for the history of the name of this musical rhythm, many versions are managed. That most accepted one, you have origin in Caracas, in a programa of radio call "The hour of the bembé, the guaracha and the salsa", sponsored by a tomato ("Pampero") mark that Cuban music offered. Then the bearer of this programa, Fidias Danilo Staggers you said: We will hear Tito Bridge and we will put you some tomato salsa Pampero." That tomato salsa not only began to associate with those rhythms, but rather when the founder of the konseal "Fania" Caracas visited and you heard all ésto, you took together with your konseal to this rhythm with your name that you would last for always.

You are as well as this name, identified to a music that contributed the youth of the seventy an own language and a sound different from the rock and Anglo-Saxon roll. Your letters and sounds were a reflection of the life of the own Hispanics: violence, discrimination, guapería, loves and indifferences revived with spectacular and passionate dances.

The ends of the eighty were hard. Puerto Rico, Colombia and Venezuela took the testimony creating your own salsa aligned with your own rhythms. The stars of Fania, were of layer drop: some had gone, other dead one, and in Europe the invention didn't clot completely. For ende, the erotic room was born. In 1980, Louie Ramírez and Ray of the Peace, they formed the group Warm" "Night, but the explosion arrived in 1986 with Lalo Rodríguez and Eddy Santiago, being these sale leaders. Starting from then, the women began to notice the singers, they bought disks and they saved the business. Many topics reintroduced the salsa in the lists of successes of America and Europe. Of the Dominican Republic Juan Luis Guerra, finished off the boom with "hopefully you rain coffee."