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Now, I’m a big Apple fan. It is not that i’m a “fanboy” about their computers - it is just that I appreciate (and addicted) to good design, quality products and effect user interfaces.
Now, with that disclaimer and biased opinion of mine out of the way - I’m very glad they are putting more Latin music in their marketing. They just finished releasing a new iPod advertisement that features some Latin musicians and dancers with a bit more Latin feel to it than most of their previous commercials. If you did not know about Apple Inc, they are the ones that made that amazing little device that all of us salsero(a)s enjoy: the iPod .
With that said, you can spot a couple of salsa dancer silhouettes in the commercial. I am really digging the colors they also chose for the atmosphere.
If you haven't seen this video, well you are in for a treat. The guys from Salsa y Control (at least one of them) were dancing with Magna at the 2007 DC Salsa Congress. It's pretty impressive because she ends up being lead by both of them at the same time. Now, I've seen this type of thing done before (where they switch off), but this time, it's truly at the same time. This is a good definition of team work because some of these moves are pretty intricate and therefore hard to coordinate with two different styled dancers. Anyways, enjoy!
As you know, we ended up going to Los Angeles (2007) West Coast Salsa Congress a couple of weeks ago. To my surprise, I ended up meeting someone that I ‘knew’ from my childhood. As you can already tell, I used to watch this show called the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers - old kid’s tv show where these teenagers had special powers to do some ninja butt-kicking. Anyways, to my surprise at the salsa congress - the Black Power Ranger now does salsa! His name is Walter Jones (known as Zack in the MMPR). I got a chance to meet him and talk to him for a bit on the saturday night event.
Who would have imagined? Well after doing a little more research, it ends up being he is pretty big in the LA Salsa scene. Even so - they were the 2004 Mayan World Salsa Champions! Impressive! I have a deep respect for people who support salsa. And for an actor (celebrity) to also be very supportive of the salsa scene requires great praise from all of us. It more than what most do.
[Updated] You can see his mad ranger skills (aerials) here:
Well, you know it was going to arrive at some point. A lot of people are in myspace. Now a lot of people are on facebook. Well, to make it fair for everyone on facebook to show some Addicted2Salsa group love - I created a world group for the website on Facebook. If you have an account you can sign up to the group and upload your photos and say hi. Have fun with it. But regardless of whether you use MySpace or Facebook, we are all addicted2salsa.
I have come to realize that the videos that I have come to enjoy the most are the ones that provide me an emotional connection to the past of salsa. Sometimes I wonder if this is my ’second’ life since somehow watching these vintage videos makes me flashback to a time I was never born.
This video shows you a little more about the history of salsa. Selling Puerto Rican food cooked by the community. No big stage for the band. The crowd is all on the streets listening and feeling the music. The performers are playing on the small steps to a church. This is part of the old essence of the culture of salsa. The People’s Salsa. Not commercialized. Powerful lyrics. The singers are still human, while iconic. In a time when Latino immigrants came to New York to find a better life, there always remained a sense of ‘no matter what, we still have each other’.
Browsing through iTunes on this Sunday afternoon - behold what I find. The nice people at Apple/iTunes made a great compilation of all the Hector Lavoe music that is available for purchase. I guess all my mass emailing and complaining paid off!
Now, I’m very happy for this because this means either two things: they have someone who is thinking about salsa music as separate to regular Alternative Latino Rock music, or they know that the new Hector Lavoe Movie is coming out and hence want to capitalize on people wanting to purchase his music.
Now of course I know it’s the second reason, but hey - you can’t complain when you are getting more Hector Lavoe Music. Enjoy!
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