From Puerto Rico's Luis Figueroa to Colombia's Son Mujeres, check out the list below. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin Salsa music has stood the test of time and evolved ever since its ...

I have a confession to make: I’ve been thinking about salsa all wrong. One internal complaint in the salsa wars, a family quarrel as it were, frames the debate as “commercial” vs. “old school.” The ...

Salsa is the sultry, hot, and heavy beat of life on the dance floor. It is the joy and the pain, the intimacy and lust, the freedom of spontaneous invention, and the emotional turmoil of love, loss, ...

The heart of salsa - the fast-tempo, horn-heavy music and its hip-swinging dance style - has beat loudly and strongly in New York for decades. The Bronx even earned the title of "El Condado de la ...

At its shows in Europe and across the United States the 11-piece orchestra La Excelencia is often introduced to audiences as personifying “salsa from New York.” So it is paradoxical that on its home ...

The late Cuban American singer Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa, will be the first Afro Latina to appear on the U.S. quarter. Cruz was one of the 20th century's most celebrated Latin music ...

The inaugural Embrace Massó "¡Con Salsa!” International Music Festival takes place this weekend. We preview the event and discuss the legacy of WBUR's ¡Con Salsa! with host José Massó and musical ...

The Latin melting pot that was New York in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to salsa dura, or hard salsa. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx were teeming with immigrants from Cuba, ...

Just because he's reached veteran status himself, the Nicaraguan-born salsero never forgets who paved the way. By Billboard Staff One of the pioneers of the salsa romántica movement, Luis Enrique ...

Bad Bunny’s success on his sixth studio album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which earned the top spot on the Billboard’s Top Streaming Albums chart the week of its debut, is on-par with the global superstar’s ...

The city of Cali, Colombia, is known for great salsa music — and, in the past, deadly drug cartels. The two are not entirely separate. The point of a tradition is that it's been around a while. It's ...

Salsa, the unmistakable rhythm that has thrilled generations, was celebrated in grand style at the 2024 Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday (Nov. 14). The genre's most iconic figures, along with new ...