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The International Salsa Museum (ISM) is a museum in development in New York City dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history, evolution, and global impact of salsa music and dance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has garnered support from the estates of salsa icons Tito Puente and Celia Cruz , as well as many other musicians, dancers, choreographers ...
By the early 1960s, there were several charanga bands in New York led by musicians (like Johnny Pacheco, Charlie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaría and Ray Barretto) who would later become salsa stars. In 1952, Arsenio Rodríguez moved for a short period to New York City taking with him his modern son montuno.
The term "salsa" was coined by Johnny Pacheco in the 1960s in New York, as an umbrella term for Cuban dance music being played in the city at the time. [2] Salsa as a dance emerged soon after, being a combination of mambo (which was popular in New York in the 1950s) as well as Latin dances such as Son and Rumba as well as American dances such as swing, hustle, and tap.
Pacheco also produced music for feature films. The first film he worked on was the 1972 documentary Our Latin Thing; this was also the first film about the influence of salsa on Latino culture in New York City. His second film Salsa released in 1974. In the 1980s, he composed the scores for Mondo New York and Something Wild.
After that, Cerón became the Dominican face of salsa and son both in New York city and across South America. In addition to co-creating the Fania Records label, influential in getting the sound of salsa out of local New York City clubs and into wider-distribution, Dominican-born musician Johnny Pacheco led the Fania All-Stars , a lineup ...
La Excelencia is an eleven piece salsa dura band from New York City founded in 2005 by percussionists Julian Silva and Jose Vazquez-Cofresi. [1] [2] The band's music has a salsa dura style, with themes incorporating immigration, poverty, and discrimination. [3] La Excelencia recorded and released three albums in their first seven years.
MioSotis made her live debut as a solo artist on February 26, 1995 with her five-piece R&B band at the Honeysuckle West club in New York City. She began recording and producing her first solo album, Hazme Soñar (Make me dream), while still an undergraduate student at the City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College. The eclectic debut ...
Orquesta Broadway was an American mid-1960s/late 1980s New York-based salsa band. [1] They issued almost 20 albums between 1964 and 1987. [1]Orquesta Broadway and Típica 73 were two popular New York salsa bands that played in the charanga format.