Salsa Music News

Salsa DJ of the month: DJ Mambo

5 July 2010 07:02, S.Short, 949 views

The lack of support from the big record labels today, is greatly to blame for the diminishing commercial exposure of the music with the exception of places such as Colombia where it is massively treasured and protected by the people. Still, Salsa has been going on for 60 years and more. More

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Colombian Salsa Music and Boogaloo

22 May 2010 10:31, S.Short, 1030 views

The Colombian city of Cali has a rich history of Salsa Music and Dance. Thousands of experts of Salsa history, Salsa lovers, and music collectors flock to the annual Salsa Festivals such as the “Encuentro de Melomanos y Coleccionistas” and the famous “Cali World Salsa Festival”. More

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What Makes a DJ Shiver?

1 April 2010 02:34, S.Short, 1083 views

"A lot of dancers use the music as a background in my opinion. They don’t listen to the music, they don’t dance to the music and they don’t feel the music. It should be the other way around. I think that dancers are the background to music. A friend of mine once said “a dancer is the silent instrument of music”, I couldn’t agree more with him." More

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Victor Manuelle’s Solo Flight

27 March 2010 09:53, S.Short, 1086 views

Victor Manuelle – an icon of the modern Salsa music industry – co-hosted the ‘Premio de lo Nuestro Awards’of Univision on February 19th . The salsa singer best known for mega hits such as ‘Hay que ponerle Alma’ (‘Got to put some Soul into it’) was closely followed by a huge live audience. With the release of the third album ‘Yo Mismo’ (‘Myself’) from his own record label Kiyavi , Manuelle proves once again he can soar to new heights without the aid of his ex-boss Sony Records. More

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Latin Entertainment celebrates 18th ASCAP Latin Music Awards

27 March 2010 01:29, S.Waldau, 653 views

Last Tuesday (March 23th) ASCAP, the leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization (PRO) representing the largest collection of over 8.5 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 370,000 songwriter-, composer- and music publisher members worldwide, held their 18th annual ASCAP Latin Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California (U.S.A.). Jorge Luis Piloto, Armando Manzanero, Joan Sebastian, Tommy Torres and Anthony Santos were some of the Top Honorees. More

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Fania from a Dancer's Perspective

26 March 2010 08:49, S.Waldau, 712 views

Last year (2009) Albert Torres – one of the world’s greatest organizers of Salsa Dance Congresses and the organizer of the annual World Salsa Dance Championships (from 2005) - issued the following communiqué on the ‘Rules and Regulations’ page of the World Salsa Championship website... More

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Dancer Of The Week

Elizabeth Jaramillo

The worst experience I have when dancing Salsa is being ignored when asking for a dance by one of the Salsa instructors offering lessons at a club. What a way to promote a class! * sarcasm mode off *

Salsa Artists

Benny Moré

Benny Moré is known as “The greatest Cuban singer of all time”. He was the eldest of eighteen children and already played the guitar when he was 6 years old.

Eddie Palmieri

Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician. Eddie Palmieri’s unique style of combining the jazz piano and Latin rhythms has made him world famous and has led to him being awared 9 Grammy’s until now.

Fulanito

Fulanito was among the first groups consisting of Dominicans, to combine Merengue (specifically Perico Ripiao) with Bachata, Reggaeton, Rap and hip hop and house.

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Salsa Music News

Salsa DJ of the month: DJ Mambo

Colombian Salsa Music and Boogaloo

What Makes a DJ Shiver?

Victor Manuelle’s Solo Flight

Latin Entertainment celebrates 18th ASCAP Latin Music Awards