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Salsa History Snippets : did you know…

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Anthony Persaud
1 year, 4 months ago
in Random and article
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Interesting facts about salsa history and other random stuff….

  • Some Fun Salsa HistoryHector Lavoe and Papo Luca went to high school together.
  • Roberto Roena was also a baseball player.
  • Fania Records was founded by Johnny Pacheco (a musician) and Jerry Masucci (a lawyer).
  • Frankie Ruiz was a fan of the orchestra “La Solucion” and knew all of the songs and lyrics. One day the lead singer didn’t show up, and he stepped in - and the rest is history.
  • Ruben Blades has a Master’s Law degree from Harvard University.
  • Andy Montañez started out as a singer for the famous “El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico”.
  • The first salsa congress was held in Puerto Rico in 1997.
  • Hector Lavoe’s real name is Hector Juan Perez. However, because Hector admired Felipe Rodriguez, a famous singer of ballads who’s nickname was “La Voz” (the voice), his current promoter gave Hector his stage last name of “Lavoe”. Lavoe is a pronounciation derivative of the phrase “La Voz” that takes into account the Puerto Rican accent of pronouncing “La Voz” as “La Voh”.

Do you know any other fun facts?

Salsa Vintage : Our Latin Thing..

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Anthony Persaud
1 year, 5 months ago
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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’.



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