Title: Cuban Salsa History | Aleksey Razbakov
Headings: Cuban Salsa History
Cuban Salsa History
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Music
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Dance
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Salsa Rueda de Casino
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History of Salsa
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History of Timba
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Cuban Casino style Salsa dancing
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History of ‘Salsa Rueda’
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What is ‘Salsa Rueda’?

Content: The most famous musicians of that time were Tito Puente, called the King of Mambo, and Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa. The rise of salsa music is also tied closely to Fania Records which was founded in 1964 by the musician Johnny Pacheco and an Italian-American divorce lawyer named Jerry Masucci. The two met at a party in a NY hotel. They struck a deal to launch what became the most influential record label in Latin music’s history. Fania was known as “the Latin Motown,” with one huge hit after another becoming popular all over Latin America. Many artists became very famous with the promotion they received from the record label “La Fania.” Fania Records remolded Cuban music into a sound more appropriate to Latin New York, and they called the sound “salsa.” By he l970s salsa was becoming so popular that Fania’s bands and artists were touring all over Latin America. This decade was the real “heyday” of salsa. The type of salsa music that Fania promoted came to be referred to as “hard salsa.”