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."

Language of the salsa

To survive in the salsoteca and to enjoy, you suit not to doubt and to have very clear what you mean each thing.
For ésto, we offer you a small dictionary so that you use it and still enjoy more than the sauce.

To settle down: To play an instrument and to dance well, with a lot of flavor and feeling.

Sugar: Expression of flavor that indicate that you are enjoying.

Lip: Lip to infer of the man or woman of black race.

To toss a foot: To dance.

Handsome: Pretty, quarreler, rough and vacilón.

Mommy: The girlfriend or partner d euno.

Dad: The novi or the mommy's partner.

Chicken: Pretty woman.

To burn: To dance very plaster to our couple.

Rumba: Party.
Member, failure, asere and you adjoin: The friend and rumba godfather.

Sonero: Singer that have the virtue of improvising texts while you interpret a song.

The stars that have popularized the salsa in the world

Baptized in New York and breastfeeded by Puerto Ricans and Cuban, the salsa is peppered music of life.
Here we offer you more names than they popularized it in the world.

Eddie Palmieri: "the king of the white ones and the quarter notes
You call your orchestra the band of the happy feet, you destroy the pianos to blows, they call you "Rompeteclas" and your great desire is to insert you kettledrums to Bach. This from New York one, revolutionized the sauce taking a risk with the most experimental sonority, merging the "riffs" of the Cuban trumpet with the duets of jazzy trombone. Your salsa is not the habitual one that destroy the feet of the accomplished dancers; him his is musical imperiled vanguard and without complex.

The Great One Warps of Puerto Rico: "the mulattos of the flavor"
Under the direction of Rafael Ithier, this Puerto Rican orchestra takes 30 years playing with sure cadence about the essence of the they are and the salsa. For many, his is the best show in the planet. Fear as "The death", "Love me", "Not there is bed pa' so much people" and "The party of Pilito", they are Latin pure locira from Puerto Rico.

Van Van: "the witty of Cuba
Band with more than 25 years destroying bodies to make dance. Juan Formell captains the band that have given topics like "Shepherdess has guararé", "Witty" or "Titimanía." They maintain the Cuban orchestra's structure, but without trumpets. Your secret: to respect the tradition and to align it with tendencies from New York.

Willie Columbus: "armed with a trombone"
You were born in Bronx, you were raised in the street and you had the good taste of changing the trumpet for the trombone. You also had the luck to trip with Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades. Not it has pasted strong among the great public, but the puristic salseros they save your disks like a relic. Your letters are songs to the life, street histories of the neighborhood, peppered by the rewind force of your trombone and the scream of the Latin town.

NG the Band: "the one that send"
Been founded at the end of the eighty by José Luis Cortés that had been with Van Van and Irakere, you show off of having the metals of the terror and your letters are chronic street of Havana. They broke musical molds and starting from your essence it was born Havanan Chranga and The Physician of the Salsa.

Famous that made popular the Salsa worldwide

This Latin genus, "the Salsa", big musicians that have known how to transmit and to infect the passion that come off of this Caribbean music have given. There are some of them here.

Celia Cruz: "the guarachera of the world"
When Celia was born in Havana, you broke the mold and you burst the flavor. Your years they were never noted in your face, less in your physique and spirit. You always knew how to put to enjoy to whole generations to the they are of your password: "Azzzzzzúcar!" With more than 800 recorded topics, you began with the big teachers of your island, you were the voice of Sound Matancera.

Rubén Blades: "the poet of the salsa"
This Panamanian one that in 1994 you showed up to the presidency of your country, you are an atypical character in the universe of the sauce. In the seventy, you slapped to this musical genus with some topics where the letters, chronic urban duras with Quixotic characters, occupied a preferential place. "Plastic", "Pedro Knife" or "Pablo Town" are good examples of it. Blades searched to play the human sensibility and you have flirted with the literature.

Oscar D'Leon: "the biggest sonero"
With Ismael's licence Rivera, the biggest sonero is Venezuelan Oscar D'Leon. Your capacity to invent, with the music and the word, in the development of the they are montuno, you are overwhelming. To hear you is an exhausting exercise. With him, the musical expression reaches your maximum perfection. Your melodious voice, with your rhythmic inimitable and attractive fraseo, accompanied by a flowing and perverse improvisation, wraps up perfectly to your orchestra's rhythm. Ambitious, demanding, joker, vacilón, intelligent and I list as the hunger, you are a gentleman above the scenario.

Héctor Lavoe: "the voice"
The singer of the singers. You died in 1993 and still today one cries your absence. You played the neighborhood boy's story that arrive to rich and you don't assimilate your success, and the drugs caught it. Your crystalline shade allowed you to sing everything. you tried to commit suicide in 1988 and you were, practically invalid. Your legacy is unbeatable, and your memory, unforgettable.

Tito Bridge: "the genius of the kettledrum"
Alive legend of the Latin music, hit your kettledrums during all the times of glory of the Afro-Cuban sound. In your music, they converge the jazz explosively, the Afro-Cuban (they are, rumba, the chachachá, guaguancó) purest styles, the bolero, the polka, the foxtrot and the rhythm of which are considered the alive king: the mambo.