Salsa was the background to Lisa Simonis’s early childhood but it took an outgoing flatmate in Scotland’s capital to persuade her to rediscover this electrifying music and dance ...

Salsa was created when The Fania All Stars band added a dynamic New York flavour to the rhythms of Cuba and Puerto Rico. "It offered a music we could live by, breathe and make love to: it was the ...

Throughout history, so much incredible, groundbreaking art has been created through defiance and rebellion. Even the endlessly upbeat, optimistic sounds of Latin salsa music have a healthy history of ...

According to César Miguel Rondón, author of the sacred history of salsa "El libro de la salsa ... "one of the worst bands that ever sounded in Latin music," but the record "with all the terrible ...

Just as Chess Records is synonymous with the blues, Motown with soul, and Blue Note with jazz, New York’s Fania Records is inextricably tied to the sound of Latin American salsa music.

Celia Cruz, often called the Queen of Salsa, brought a vivacity to her stage performances that filled her music as well as the stage. She was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1925, where she began singing and ...