Salsa!Salsa will hit you, make you move and keep you going. Born of African roots mixed with the indigenous and European that are spread all over Latin America and the Caribbean, Salsa first emerged in the late 1800's/early 1900's and is a melted pot of rhythms from Merengue to Mambo, Cha Cha Cha to Conga, Guaracha to Rumba. Salsa didn't become a worldwide household word, though, until the 1960's/70's. The music uses all of the percussion and string instruments of the regions of its inception. Its noted musicians as promotors of salsa in North America include Willie Colon, Larry Harlow, Oscar D'Leon, Ruben Blades, Fania All Stars, Hector Lavoie and Johnny Pacheco. Popular Cuban artists such as the Buena Vista Social Club and Ibrahim Ferrer, Cachao, Los Van Van, Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo have made their ways into the hearts and music collections of salsa lovers around the world. The genre of African Salsa is currently putting out some excellent music with the rawer rhythms of its own African roots, in the music of groups such as Kekele, and Africando.
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