it was the essence of the Latin soul". Filmed in Cuba, Puerto Rico and New York City, this programme reveals the untold story of Salsa music which burst upon the New York scene in the late '60s.

Salsa started ... It's music meant for dancing in seedy nightclubs, yet it's capable of shaking you to the core with narratives of unimaginable sadness. One of Latin American culture's most ...

The Last Mambo explores the San Francisco Bay Area’s (SFBA) Latin music scene. In the 1930’s musicians of color played in racially segregated areas. The 1950’s Mambo craze and integration ...

underlining the multilayered identity of the music. Like the city in which the style was created, salsa is a melting pot of genres such as mambo, son montuno, Latin jazz and other elements.