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Salsa romántica (Spanish of 'romantic salsa') is a soft form of salsa music that emerged between the mid-1980s and early 1990s in New York City, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It has been criticised for it being supposedly a pale imitation of "real" salsa, often called " salsa dura ".
"Everybody Salsa" was originally a UK hit for Modern Romance in 1981 and was included on their debut album, Adventures in Clubland (1981) as part of the Clubland Mix along with "Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey", "Salsa Rappsody", and "Moose on the Loose". It was one of the few Modern Romance records to feature drummer, Tony Gainsborough.
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 1.66 million concurrent viewers, and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 86.3 million views in its first day. [50] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in just 32 hours, [51] and 200 million views, in seven days. [52]
The salsa romántica movement helped salsa continued to be relevant in spite of the rise of merengue music as well as moving away from lyrics dealing with social class. [25] Salsa romántica was characterized by its influence by the aforementioned romantic ballads and more pop-leaning sounds. [ 26 ]
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Eddie Santiago (born Eduardo Santiago Rodríguez, [note 1] August 18, 1955) [1] is a salsa singer from Puerto Rico.He is one of the great figures of this musical genre, with popular songs such as “Me Haces Falta Tú" on Soy el Mismo, “Lluvia" on Sigo Atrevido, “Mía" on Invasión de la Privacidad y “Tú me quemas" on Atrevido y diferente.
The Hot Latin Songs chart (formerly Hot Latin 50 and Hot Latin Tracks), [1] published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart based on Latin music airplay. The data were compiled by the Billboard chart and research department with information from 70 Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and Puerto Rico. [2]
Puerto Rican music promoter Izzy Sanabria claims he was the first to use the word salsa to denote a music genre: In 1973, I hosted the television show Salsa which was the first reference to this particular music as salsa. I was using [the term] salsa, but the music wasn't defined by that. The music was still defined as Latin music.