The "salsa" is a musical genre of Afro-Caribbean Latin American music origin, which emerged in New York. It was created by Caribbean immigrants who in the sixties mixed traditional Latin rhythms with elements of jazz according to the example of mambo and cha-cha-chá. With what they gave music with various types of percussion instruments, salsa style is the main music played in Latin clubs and is the essential pulse of Latin music, according to author Ed Morales. And whose precursory figure was, the Dominican Johnny Pacheco when creating the guideline to follow with his company, Fania Records.
The fusion of diverse Caribbean rhythms gave origin to a musical genre especially rhythmic and cheerful that is known as salsa.
The reason why he was baptized with this gastronomic term is due to a Venezuelan radio program that usually offered this type of music and that was sponsored by a brand of tomato sauce called Pampero. The presenter, Fidras Danilo Escalona, well known in that country, introduced the songs with reference to that sauce.
Although in Cuba there had not been a political and social revolution, already in New York the Puerto Ricans had been creating a musical revolution. They were playing with the rhythms as creative children who wanted to create their own sound, and that was it. For 1965-70, there were 1,429,000 Puerto Ricans in New York and no more than 30,000 Cubans, a proportion of more than 40 for every 1 (one). The Puerto Ricans looked like mushrooms that were everywhere, they were like something that grew from the earth and sprouted alone, it was then they, responsible more than anyone with this new sound and emerging style, coming to be, the protagonists and creators of LA SAUCE. There was only one orchestra in New York "allegedly" Cuban and it was that of Frank (Machito) "Grillo and his Afrocubans Boys, who turned out to be more than 60% Puerto Rican." Machito by his side, had been born in Tampa Florida, living In the Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York, with his wife, the Puerto Rican Hilda Torres, Machito was taken to Cuba as a child by his parents and when he returned as an adult by the end of the 30's, he started as a singer with the Puerto Rican orchestra Noro Morales .
These rhythms that came from Africa, is the case of danzón, incorporated by the French who fled Haiti. The Country Dance, from England and later taken to France and Cuba, and as we see are an important part of the history and origin of the sauce.
These rhythms achieved a very good reception in countries like Puerto Rico and Colombia, after which they were transferred to the United States, especially to the Bronx - New York, a place that for many is one of the most important and influential in the history and origin of salsa , although for this they had to spend some years, since in 1960 the word salsa began to be heard as a musical genre.
At the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s, salsa began to emerge, a musical genre that would have walked between Rock and Roll, giving way in this way to Latin music represented in this genre and attaining great popularity in the US. . But this was only the beginning, since among all this comes to the fore a name that would be the revolution in the musical genre of salsa, its name was: Fania all Stars. So let's see this chapter and what Fania contributed to the history and origin of salsa.
Fanía all Stars marked a before and an after in the History and origin of salsa with its concerts in the 5 continents, unveiled this genre with the greatest artists of the moment. Attending a Fania concert was something unique, nobody knew exactly what could be found, the improvisations of salsa masters was one of the most acclaimed shows and Héctor Lovoe (the singer) excelled not only because of his unique voice, but also He did it because of his spontaneous style.
In Latin America from the 80 countries like Colombia, Panama, Dominican Republic, Peru, Venezuela and how, the condiderados host of this rhythm, Puerto Rico and Cuba, which begin to bring new styles, such as the subgenre: Salsa romantic
I summarize some of the most important references of salsa: Fruco y sus Tesos (Colombia), Grupo Niche (Colombia), La sonora Matancera (Cuba), Gloria Estefan (Cuba), Oscar D'León (Venezuela) Rubén Blades (Panamá) Luiz Enrique (Nicaragua) Ñico Estrada (Peru) Andy Montañéz (Puerto Rico) The Nemos (Colombia) and Many groups, orchestras and soloists that continue to popularize the salsa genre throughout the world, being Puerto Rico, Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela of the What else are they still contributing?
I hope that the history and origin of the sauce is to your liking I invite you to enjoy musical genres more known around the world
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