Salsa Music News

Fania from a Dancer's Perspective

26 March 2010 08:49, S.Waldau, 2488 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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Salsa DJ of the month: DJ Mambo

5 July 2010 07:02, S.Short, 3466 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, 4422 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, 2696 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, 2473 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, 2132 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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Dancer Of The Week

Sanne Keijzer

Dance because you like it and show that. Own the dance. A good student can copy the teacher but a great dancer learns and then makes it her own. So, create your own style and do your thing. And very important: dare to dance!

Salsa Artists

Victor André

Victor-Andrés Cruz was born in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, the city where he first felt the powerful essence of music, and the city that has always been one of Victor's biggest sources of inspiration. He grew up in a family that was, and still is to this day, very passionate about Colombian Folk music.

Manolito y su Trabuco

Manolito y su Trabuco was one of the pioneers of Timba music. Their debut album was “Directo al Corazón” in 1995. Manolito Simonet, the band leader of the group, was the musical director and pianist of Maravilla de Florida before he formed the ensemble Trabuco.

Ruben Blades

Ruben Blades is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres.

Album Of The Week

Frank Reyes – Sigue Tu Vida

Frank Reyes – a.k.a “The Prince of Bachata” - sings some of the world's most beautiful Bachata songs in his album “Sigue Tu Vida” (English: “Go On with Your Life”). This is real Bachata for all traditional Dominican Style and Modern Style Bachatateros and Bachateras.

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Salsa Music News

Fania from a Dancer's Perspective

Salsa DJ of the month: DJ Mambo

Colombian Salsa Music and Boogaloo

What Makes a DJ Shiver?

Victor Manuelle’s Solo Flight