The Cheetah Club on Broadway and 53rd Street was the “granddaddy of the big commercial disco,” wrote cultural historian Steven Watson in his 2003 book, “Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties.” Warhol ...
The sixth Cuba's International Salsa Music Festival kicked off in the capital city of Havana on Wednesday after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to organizers, the festival ...
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Socialist Cuba, the birthplace of salsa and other rhythms that have conquered the world, is now surrendering to the invasion of South Korean pop music. Thirteen thousand kilometers ...
Tokyo, Japan – Victor Rodriguez, a Cuban musician, had planned a short stay in Japan with his band to try and make money teaching salsa dance to desiring Japanese. But 11 years later, he finds himself ...
HAVANA (Reuters) -Until recently, 26-year-old Cuban Alejandro Beltran was among a rare breed of Cubans with two left feet. That embarrassing predicament, he said, led him to seek out salsa dancing ...
HAVANA - In Cuba, the home of salsa, young people are being seduced by a music phenomenon from a place that could hardly be more geographically -- or ideologically -- remote. K-pop, the South Korean ...
New York's Latin music giant Joe Cuba died Sunday at age 78, after a long illness. As prolific as he was influential, Cuba was one of the main pioneers of the Latin soul movement in the 1960s, which ...