this music result of a synthesis of cuban influences whit other elements of jazz, especially the afo-cuban jazz.
Acording to some musicians and historians, te salsa is a trand name started to all the cuban music in the seventies.
meanwhile the salsa turned partly importantly of the musical scene in to several coutries. At the arrival of the 21st century, the salsa has turned into one of the most important forms of the popular music into the world.
In the years 30's, the septetos and sextets (that alone they were using bongó) were very popular in Cuba. When Gerardo Machado prohibited the use of the bongó, the brass bands (that alone were using kettledrums) became popular, managing to appear some groups in The United States. The censorship was raised in the ends of the thirties and the bongos were used again. In the fifties, the dance Cuban music, as the mountain sound, mambo, the rumba and the chachachá, they were a music of principal current in the United States and Europa. In the city of New York, the " Cuban style " of the bands was formed fundamentally by Cuban, Puerto Rican and Dominican musicians.
From New York the sauce expanded firstly in Latin America, especially in countries as Colombia, Panama, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and, obviously, Puerto Rico. Already in the eighties unamble reaches diffusion in some Europa's places and Japan. On the other hand Miami turned into the second metropolis of the Cuban music, for the great quantity of Cuban immigrants. The Cuban community reached an important weight in the life of the city of Miami. Of that events form a part importantly as the Festival of the Street 8.
The sauce registered a regular growth between the seventies and 2000 and now it is popular in many Latin-American countries and some spaces of the American market. Between the singers and groups emphasized in the nineties we find to figures as King Ruiz, Luis Enrique, Jerry Rivera, Dan Den, Marc Anthony, The India, The Sonorous Matancera, DLG, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Víctor Manuelle, Michael Stuart, Celia Cruz, Maelo Ruiz.
