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The origins of salsa
I was reading Amazon reviews of a Spanish Harlem Orchestra CD when I found a comment that helped clarify the much disputed and confusing origins of salsa music and dancing:
Salsa music includes all Cuban rythms such as Son, Cha Cha Cha, Mambo, Timba, Songo, Guaguanco, Rumba, Guajira and so on. All those rythms were born in Cuba and not in New York. The word Salsa was originated in New York to better market all these rythms. Please, make your own research and I suggest you start with the following movie: "Del Son a la Salsa". This movie features all time Puerto Rican greats Gilberto Santa Rosa, Marc Anthony, Cheo Feliciano, Tito Puentes, Venezuela great Oscar D' Leon, Panama master Ruben Blades and many Cuban great musicians from inside the island and from outside. All of them confirmed that Cuba is the motherland of Salsa.
Juan said about 1 year ago:
Well, I have some salsa Cds and music from Cuba and Venezuela -- most of salsa songs are based on Conga rhythms. But , we should remember that these sounds arrived in the new world from Africa . Here is a nice web site which explains how Congas arrived in America (http://www.artdrum.com/HISTORY_OF_CONGA_DRUMS.htm). Myself as a lover of Latin jazz, like to hear music from north to south America, as you quoted above all those belong to most of Americas but agree Cuba is the queen of Salsa music.
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