How the Record Man Harvey Averne Helped Take Latin Music Worldwide biztoc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from biztoc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
- salsa is around. - so the birth of salsa people think it s from cuba or puerto rico. where how did it happen? - el son, which is from cuba, is what salsa is. - son is a genre of music and dance created in cuba, heavily influenced by african rhythms and sounds. these rhythms became a touchstone for the latino community when they began immigrating to the united states. - salsa is a big new york thing because when our parents came here in the 30s and the 40s, that s probably all they had. music was intertwined in all of our activities and all our events. - but what was the special flavor that new york brought to el son that people call salsa? - what happened in the 70s, you cannot deny the fact that fania records, with jerry masucci and johnny pacheco
put new york salsa on the map. boy, these guys were traveling all over the world. [singing in spanish] - fania records was the first label to promote new york-style salsa, a version of salsa that embraced the synergy of various latin cultures that called this city their home. it represented all the greats héctor lavoe, willie colón, and the queen herself, celia cruz. - [singing in spanish] - through the years, salsa has made its way into american mainstream culture, from soundtracks in movies to tv and beyond. - the unity that we have here, we bring it to life every saturday. and when you come to a place like this, when you come el barrio, spanish harlem, east harlem, it s infectious. - yes. i like what you said, unity in the community.
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