Salsa music is a big mix of sounds and styles — Afro-Caribbean rhythms, configurations that mix blasting brass, flashes of spirited improvisation, and driving percussion — bells, congas, timbales and ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Kings of Salsa on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North ...

Salsa – the dance, just like the sauce – can be full of ingredients, hot and spicy, sweet and zesty, complex or straightforward. A mix of many Hispanic musical styles like Cha cha cha, Són, Rhumba, ...

The term salsa was coined by the music industry to identify the fusion of Afro-Caribbean rhythms—especially Cuban and Puerto Rican—that gained major popularity during the 1960s and 1970s. The birth of ...

A Harlem-born New York original, the percussionist, composer and bandleader helped define Latin jazz and lay the groundwork for 1970s salsa. By Ed Morales Ernest Anthony Puente, known as Tito, was ...

IT wasn't so much a readiness to rumba that led Monise Durrani from her home in Edinburgh to a run-down theatre in Santiago de Cuba on Fidel Castro's Caribbean communist island-state. Rather, it was ...

The musician, who died on Friday, was a true originator of the genre. An outsider, he lived a Latin music life by immersing himself in Afro-Caribbean culture. By Ed Morales In many ways, Larry Harlow ...

Cuban singer Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso was adored across the globe for her musical artistry. Sunday makes 20 years since her death — but her memory is still alive. Cruz started ...

As child living in Santiago de Cuba in the 1950s Liana Munro ached to become a professional ballerina. “My father gave me a great love for dance,” she shares. “As a little girl I remember standing on ...