Younger Latinos from the Caribbean fight to preserve salsa music and dance. The deep thump of the bongos, the scraping of the guiro, and the loud chirp of the trumpet -- the pulse of salsa would get ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --Google celebrates Salsa music in a new Doodle, released Monday. The search bar image features a piano, dancing feet and bright colors and coincides with Hispanic Heritage month. "It's ...

For more than a decade, the Northwest Florida Boricuas Ausentes held its annual Latin Salsa Music Festival at Fort Walton's Landing Park. But after a five year hiatus, NWF Boricuas Ausentes has ...

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 ...

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...

When Cesar Romero came to Santa Monica from Mexico City twenty years ago, salsa dancing was the way he found community and a sense of belonging in his new home. Now, he is on a mission to share his ...

Rafael Ithier, founder of the emblematic salsa group El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, has died at age 99. The pianist, composer and arranger — who served as the orchestra's longtime musical director — ...

Alberto Caicedo traverse la salsa comme on traverse une forêt de tambours ou une mer d’exils et de retrouvailles. Né sur la côte pacifique colombienne, élevé au feu des percussions et à l’école ...

Until recently, Colombian percussionist and bandleader Clodomiro Montes made a decent living doing what he loves best: playing a soulful repertoire of Afro-Caribbean hits at restaurants and nightclubs ...

Salsa music legend Willie Colón is still recovering after a motor-home accident on the Outer Banks, the star has tweeted. The singer crashed his RV on April 20 on U.S. 64 on the Virginia Dare Bridge, ...