Title: What Is Salsa Music and What Is Its Origin?
Headings: What Is Salsa Music and What Is Its Origin?
What Is Salsa Music and What Is Its Origin?
Learn more about one of the more exciting styles of Latin music
Salsa Music
Birthplace of Salsa
Evolution of Salsa
What's in a Name

Content: The music went back to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and South America and continued to evolve there. It evolved a little differently in each place, so today we have Cuban salsa ( timba ), Puerto Rican salsa , and Colombian salsa (dura). Each style has a driving, electric energy that is the hallmark of the salsa form, but it also has the distinctive sounds of its country of origin. What's in a Name
The spicy salsa sauce that is eaten in Latin America is added to give food zing. In this same vein, without going into the many apocryphal legends about who was first to use the term, DJs, bandleaders, and musicians started yelling "Salsa" as they were introducing a particularly energetic musical act or to spur the dancers and musicians on to more frenetic activity. So, much in the same way that Celia Cruz would shout, " Azucar ," meaning "sugar," to spur on the crowd in her way, the word "Salsa " was invoked to spice up the music and dancing.