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" Salsa : a different manner to name Cuban music. Mambo, cha cha cha, son... all the Cuban rhythms joined together by only one name ". (Celia Cruz). |
But strictly speaking, salsa borns in New York at the end of the 60ties, created by musicians of the barrios, the poor Latino
neighborhoods.
The style grows rich quickly by a social dimension, through the impulse of Willie Colón, who reveals the back side of the American dream, while putting in words the harsh ghetto reality, where misery, violence and hard drugs reign. His friend Rubén Blades imposes a conscious, claiming and political salsa (salsa conciente).
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International figures like Celia Cruz contribute to establish the style durably. Thanks to its worldwide impact, which overflows the framework of Latin audiences, salsa becomes a generic term : people will call salsa whole of Latin musics : boogaloo, mambo, old son, or recent latin-house.
Cuban musicians, estimating that the USA recycled and usurped their music, sulked the term for a long time. But the word salsa (the sauce) seems definitively adopted today. It is real that the term is perfect, seeing that it evokes at the same time a mixture, a know-how, a heat, an excitation of the senses, and all that give taste - and pepper ! - to the things.
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