An uplifting chronicle on the origins of Salsa as a genre in NY. Latin dance music has been around for a long time, but the term "salsa" was initially promoted and marketed in New York City during the 1970s in an attempt to unify several different Latin musical styles. This loose docume...
(Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) another term forRoman alphabet Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 Lat′in al′phabet ...
Even a shallow secular analysis of the rhythms will quickly reveal its profound influence of all Caribbean music (salsa being the most general term). The word igbodú refers to a specific location in the ancient land of Yoruba (today known as the african nation of Nigeria), where the ...
The cha-cha-cha or simply cha cha is a musical style and dance developed in the 1950s in Havana, Cuba and popularized in the US and the world around 1955 in what is known as the “cha cha cha craze”. The name of the dance comes from the sound dancers’ shoes make while shuffling...
Tango, ballroom dance, musical style, and song. The tango evolved about 1880 in dance halls and perhaps brothels in the lower-class districts of Buenos Aires, where the Spanish tango, a light-spirited variety of flamenco, merged with the milonga, a fast,
The single —“a song that proposes the future of a long-term relationship, with all the difficulties and obstacles that this represents,” Cepeda explains in a press release — was recorded between Bogotá and Los Angeles. It also comes with a music video filmed in the Bogotá neighborhood ...
Remember that mentioning your particular skills, like playing a musical instrument or knowing many foreign languages, would make you attractive to women. Where can you find Mexican mail-order brides? You will have a couple of possibilities for meeting Mexican women. You can plan a trip to ...
The music of the jarabe Tapatío, the national dance of Mexico (also called the jarabe nacional), originated in a collection of regional sonecitos del país that coalesced into a musical composition in the early part of the 20th century. The jarabe Tapatío represents the cultural identity of ...
"Latin music," on the other hand, was a construct defined by musical aesthetics presumed to be of Latin American origin (for example, instrumentation such as use of horns, or rhythms such as cha cha), so it did not matter who played it nor what language it was in. The Spaniard Xavier...
And let's not forget British chart-topper Robbie Williams depicted as a CGI monkey (Better Man). Hollywood's thirst for musical life stories shows little sign of being quenched, either. In 2025, the late King of Pop Michael Jackson (Michael) and New Jersey's finest Bruce Springsteen (...