Guaracha and Salsa Music of Puerto Rico

Salsa is another genre whose type originated from the Cuban/Puerto Rican blending of genre, particularly Cuban dance music of the 50s, but in the 60s and 70s it became an international genre, cultivated with special zeal and excellence in Puerto Rico and by New York Puerto Ricans. Forms such as the Charanga was vastly renowned to Puerto Ricans and Newyoricans, indeed, saved this music, which had been decaying and remote in Cuba itself in the 60s, giving it current life, new social significance, and many modern stylistic inventions. Salsa is the name attained by the renovated type of Cuban/Puerto Rican-pattern dance music that was refined and rearticulated from the later 60s by Puerto Ricans in New York and later, in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. While salsa soon became an international genre, flourishing in Colombia, Venezuela and elsewhere, also in New York and Puerto Rico have remained its midpoints. Particularly notable in the island were Sonora Poncena, Willie Rosario and El Gran Combo, as well as the more pop-oriented salsa romantic artists of the 80s and 90s.

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Other renowned Newyorican and Puerto Rican advocates have been Tito Puente (timbales and vibes players), Gilberto Santa Rosa, Tito Rodriguez (guaracha and bolero singer), Papo Lucca, pianists Eddie Palmieri, conguero Ray Barreto, Richie Ray, Bobby Cruz, trombonist and singer Willie Colon and singers La India, Cheo Feliciano, Andy Montanez, Pete El CondeRodriguez, Hector Lavoe, Ismael Rivera, Ismael Miranda and Tito Nieves, among many others.