WHAT IS SALSA ? WHERE and HOW DID it START ?

Directly translated from Spanish, salsa means sauce. It is what gives Latino cooking its flavor, the same as in Italian cooking. What's spaghetti without the sauce? Traditionally, in American music like Jazz (and Latin), when a band was really swinging, people would say, "They're cooking"... in Spanish--"Cocinando!" And when all the ingredients were cookin' just right--the music hot and spicy, Latinos would say, "It had Salsa y Sabor" (sauce and taste). So what the term really denotes is music with flavor and spice.

Salsa is Latin Soul. Salsa is flavor and spice. Salsa es Ritmo! Rhythm, the basis of Salsa. African slaves brought their rhythms to the Caribbean, mixed them with Indian with European melodies, and Spanish lyrics and gave birth to Latin music. Salsa's rhythmic origins were Cuban, but it was the young Puerto Ricans in New York City that developed and kept it alive. Today, Salsa, which is rapidly becoming popular worldwide among people of all ages, is known world-wide as Latino Music and Dance.

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