According to singer Celia Cruz, salsa is just a different way of naming Cuban music. It is the mambo, the chachachá, the son... all Cuban rhythms combined under one name. But salsa in itself was born in New York toward the end of the 60's, created by musicians of the poor Latin neighborhoods. When it transcended Latin audiences, the word was imposed as a generic term to refer to the whole group of Latin music styles, from the boogaloo to the mambo, right through to the old son and including Latin house. Cubans rejected this term for a considerable period of time, but eventually accept it.
