salsa

No other word describes the Rubén Blades SalsaSwing concert in Puerto Rico but extraordinary. The SalsaSwing Puerto Rico concert included a 3-song tribute to Cheo Feliciano, the entire "Siembra" album from top to bottom, a total of 41…

This year 2021 has taken away several Latin Music artists. Especially several of the elite Salsa group, the Fania All-Stars of the '70s. Here's some of the departed in 2021: January: 1. Hector "Bomberito" Zarzuela - the great…

Cheo Feliciano's Salsa Navideña classic, "Felicidades" celebrates its 48th anniversary this year. A Salsa Dura album with great flavor, "Felicidades" became a perfect complement to the few existing Salsa Navideña music albums that had been…

Luis "Perico" Ortiz gives us another memorable musical visit with "Sigo Entre Amigos". "Sigo Entre Amigos" feels like a friend that after several years of not seeing each other, drops by with his friends to share the latest music they've…

Salsa Queen Celia Cruz has been brought back to musical life with a new single "La Bandera Que Canta". The song is part of a project called "Spoken Music". "La Bandera Que Canta" The "Spoken Music" project is presented by Celia Cruz…

If you want to experience new Salsa that sounds like Classic Salsa, then check out Willy Calderon's "LA Impromtu". The young Colombian musician, producer, pianist, and percussionist, who grew up in Los Angeles, produced an impressive…

The evolution of Salsa orchestrations during the '70s dramatically increased its popularity and established it as a solid genre of popular music, not a passing craze. Salsa Music in the '60s It started in the '60s when bands began to mix…

Larry Harlow recorded 3 albums that helped elevate the orchestration in Salsa music, and catapult the genre to its apex. These were "Hommy", "Salsa", and "Live in Quad". In the first part of the 1970s, artists like the Palmieri brothers,…

Following up on the previous blog on "Music & Domestic Violence", we look back at how Salsa music reflected our society's "machista" culture, contributing to this unfortunate behavior. Salsa "Machista" I'm using this term to describe…