Cuban-American radio played Los Van Van's songs blending jazz, pop, and Cuban son -- a style of music that incorporates elements of traditional Spanish songs with African rhythms.

Cuban artists who were superstars on the island have found scant interest for their style of complex and progressive salsa in the U.S., where tastes run more traditional.

Four days of celebrations for the 100th birthday of Latina Celia Cruz, known as the queen of salsa, begins Sept. 3 at Indiana ...

Over time, they started referring to this type of music as salsa, a term long used by Cuban musicians, such as in the 1930s hit “Échale salsita” (“put a little sauce on it”) by the band ...

Timba, a Cuban cousin of Salsa is popular worldwide, but never really caught on in LA. That might be changing, if a hard-working Timba band keeps finding new fans. In the early 1990s, “Timba ...

His new album, which like his previous music incorporates salsa, Cuban folkloric music and funk and explores themes of love and identity, is being recorded in Miami, where González's producer lives.

Combining all these non-Cuban elements grafted onto the basic Cuban ‘son montuno’ template, the true colours of salsa music came straight from Cuba to town last night.Salsa y Punto, a musical ...

Cuban-American trumpet player Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros is a walking salsa music encyclopedia. He may not have been present at the birth of the genre in 1928 (he was four years old) but the ...

The increasing number of high-caliber Cuban bands coming to Japan -- Bamboleo, NG La Banda, Manolito y su Trabuco -- serve as evidence of salsa's growing popularity. Miwa Okubo of Latin American ...

CHICO — Cuban-born band Orquesta Akokan travels from New York to bring a mix of mambo and salsa to the West Coast this month. Performing at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. on June 21, this will be ...

On Aug. 23, 1973, the legendary salsa label, Fania, gathered together all its stars for a concert to end all concerts — in ...