"Thank you to Puerto Rico, my home, for always inspiring me," Figueroa says upon his third coronation on the chart.
How does one reinvent salsa, a universally beloved and traditional music genre? That’s the question that 34-year-old salsero Luis Figueroa keeps asking himself. From touring the world with Romeo ...
Not to sound like a broken record, but I'll say it again: the variety of creative expression in what is inadequately labeled ...
Salsa music originated in New York in the 1960s with influence from Puerto Rican and Cuban cultures after a mass movement of Puerto Ricans migrated to the city in the 1950s.
In January, Bad Bunny’s latest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, quickly topped the charts, dominating streaming platforms for months. Along with its hit status came an unequivocal declaration that ...
For the first time, “Salsa” Sarah Haykel, Director of Salsa for the Soul (a part of Love Is Real LLC), will team up with Kleinhans Music Hall to present a “Salsa Gala” on Friday, October 4 from 8pm to ...
For more than a decade, the Northwest Florida Boricuas Ausentes held its annual Latin Salsa Music Festival at Fort Walton's Landing Park. But after a five year hiatus, NWF Boricuas Ausentes has ...
In celebration of the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, Embrace Boston will host the international music festival Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa! on Saturday on the Boston Common. The festival, which is ...
Eddie Palmieri, the virtuosic keyboardist and visionary bandleader who helped define and then expanded the aesthetic parameters of the salsa genre, has died at the age of 88. His death was confirmed ...
Northampton Arts Council will present its seventh year of salsa music in Pulaski Park. The council will feature five Salsa events on evenings in July and August. Shows start at 6 p.m. and go until ...
Johnny Pacheco was salsa music. So much so that Pacheco, legendary bandleader, promoter and record executive, was known as the one to name salsa music “salsa” in the 1960s. Pacheco, a longtime North ...