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.

Hong Kong DJ Gia Fu first discovered Latin music in Chinese culture while interning for Wong Kar-wai’s production company – ...

By the 2010s, however, experts say reggaeton emerged as the most-popular medium through which latin artists began to create music and younger generations had already long traded out their salsa ...

Salsa was the background to Lisa Simonis’s early childhood but it took an outgoing flatmate in Scotland’s capital to persuade ...

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 ...

The Spanish and Portuguese brought numerous styles of music with them to the Latin American countries ... They are commonly heard in salsa and Afro-Cuban jazz and play solos which contain ...

But while rap and reggaetón soared, tropical music and salsa waned. Not only is tropical music the smallest subgenre of Latin music commercially, it’s also been the slowest-growing of the past ...

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.