From Puerto Rico's Luis Figueroa to Colombia's Son Mujeres, check out the list below. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin Salsa music has stood the test of time and evolved ever since its ...

How does one reinvent salsa, a universally beloved and traditional music genre? That’s the question that 34-year-old salsero Luis Figueroa keeps asking himself. From touring the world with Romeo ...

Please welcome arts educator Laura Echegaray to EdSpace. She recently participated in a KQED Education workshop where we spent a day at MoAD learning about historical representation through art and ...

Salsa music icon, Celia Cruz, will soon be the first Afro Latina to be featured on a United States quarter. La guarachera de Cuba and the queen of salsa is making history nearly 20 years after her ...

TO HONOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. TONIGHT, IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE VIBRANT SOUNDS AND MUSIC OF THE LOCAL SALSA MUSIC AND DANCING SHOWS US. THIS INCLUDES BRINGING A CULTURAL ENERGY TO THE CITY. IT’S PART OF ...

The city of Cali, Colombia, is known for great salsa music — and, in the past, deadly drug cartels. The two are not entirely separate. The point of a tradition is that it's been around a while. It's ...

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...

Johnny Pacheco was salsa music. So much so that Pacheco, legendary bandleader, promoter and record executive, was known as the one to name salsa music “salsa” in the 1960s. Pacheco, a longtime North ...