Where Do Salsa Dance And Music Come From: < THE ROOTS>!!

 

Salsa is like much of the greatest popular music. The creative fire was lit when Africa met the cultural cauldron, the new world America.
For Salsa it began in Cuba where Salsa music was formed by the combination of African Yoruba drumming, the music of local indigenous people and the influence of Spanish music along with vocals.
Cubans developed their own salsa steps for this music.

Cuba set modern Latin dance in motion, but a transformation took place not in the Caribbean but on the streets of New York and Miami. It was there that Puerto-Ricans and Cubans had come to settle as a result of the joint upheavals of poverty in the former and isolation due to the revolution in the latter.

The Americas was not the only continent where Cuban music and Salsa was exposed. As long ago as the 1930s, Cuban bands were playing in Paris and New York. In the 1950s, and at various other times in recent history, Europe and North America were virtually colonized by the cha-cha-cha. North American jazz and Latin dance forms have gained huge popularity all over the world but when Latin music came to stay in America, suddenly there met two parallel traditions that had dipped into the same creative gumbo made of Africa and the new world.