Latino music

I think you’ll find it interesting to retrace Salsa music's steps starting some 50 years ago. In this blog series I'll cover the evolution and different challenges Salsa has faced, and how I believe it survived them. I’ll be retracing…

Latino music legend and 9-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri has been doing music for most of his 76 years. And for the latter chunk of those years, his son Edward Palmieri II has been with him as his band manager. This is not an…

There are few people that can talk about the old days of Salsa music and how they compare to today like Oscar Hernandez. Oscar was in the middle of the boom of Salsa music in New York when it exploded in the 70's and today continues…

The 4 -time Grammy nominated, and 2-time Grammy winner Spanish Harlem Orchestra was born from a need to expose good Salsa music, not to continue with the commercial pop-Salsa prevailing at the time. The Spanish Harlem Orchestra is about…

Who? Yeah, I know! That's what I said too...until I hit the "Play" button on "Lula's Lounge Essential Tracks". Then I was drinking Cuban Salsa music through a fire hydrant. Lula is a lounge in Toronto which hosts Latino music,…

Jennifer Lopez has managed to keep busy with her role as a judge in American Idol, being voted the World’s Most Beautiful Woman by People’s Magazine, and the release this month of her latest music album “Love?”. Yet, I voted Jennifer…