Apology and question about Salsa music.

Hello SalsaForums!
I'm back and sorry if I ever you know, made bad threads.
The thing is that, when I started using SalsaForums I also had just started using internet forums. So I wasn't that good at posting, I posted stuff that sometimes was against the rules.. I also posted in Spanish lol and well I wanted to apologize even though it was a loong time ago.

The question: How do you think that Salsa can become a hit again like in the 70s, 80s, and sorta 90s? I would love to know so I can probably do something about it. Long story but yeah. I assume that there are a lot of Salsa fans in this forum?

as a matter of fact, salsa is doing fine right now. dozens of new releases went out monthly from almost all continents.

when merengue took dance rooms as a storm in the 80's and beginning the 90's, ppl said that salsa was "already dead". time proved them wrong.

salsa is still alive and kicking.

even in the 70's, salsa had to fight over other strong genres like rock, soul, funk and disco.

Abayarde said:

as a matter of fact, salsa is doing fine right now. dozens of new releases went out monthly from almost all continents.

when merengue took dance rooms as a storm in the 80's and beginning the 90's, ppl said that salsa was "already dead". time proved them wrong.

salsa is still alive and kicking.

even in the 70's, salsa had to fight over other strong genres like rock, soul, funk and disco.

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then you must live in "heavenlyland" or something cuz wherever I go, people are listening to the silly modern music... and when someone says "Salsa music" they go "omg, old!" it's pretty disappointing.

WillieFan90 said:

then you must live in "heavenlyland" or something cuz wherever I go, people are listening to the silly modern music... and when someone says "Salsa music" they go "omg, old!" it's pretty disappointing.

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don't know where you from, but where I live -Puerto Rico- Salsa it's still strong. plenty of places to hear and/or dance it.

I'm a DJ in my spare time and 50% of songs played at gigs is Salsa. Yes, people like Reggaetón, Bachata, Merengue & Latin Rock but they still like Salsa.

And I'm talking about people of all ages. Even teenagers are digging Salsa Clásica and they dance it very well.

Where I live, salsa music is probably more popular now than it's ever been.

But I do live in England.

I personally don't think you'll ever get salsa to be like the 70's again......ever!

Doesn't mean you won't get the same caliber of music or that salsa is going to die or that people have lost interest .... but the 70's were the 70's and the 80's the 80's......things have changed. Trends exist, social issues exist, so many factors man - - wars, civil rights, people losing their "innocence" in the transitionary 60's, record company monopolies pushing and pushing latin music in certair areas, drugs, no internet, no cell phones,.... it's just so hard to fathom in a small discussion.....

for example, during the 90's we saw a huge wave of gangster rap and hip hop become so mainstream that everyone took to loving it and, it seems, reggaeton was the latin result that followed......so much $$$ was made off of it, record companies wanted to cash in on it, I would imagine....

it's hard to erase all that and go back to the 70's blindly. Impossible to do.....especially b/c you can't recreate all the factors that went into creating the sound of the era you like.....all music will continue to evolve - - - how? God only knows.

Obviously - - for salsa, what's big right now is the dancing portion.....pretty much any city you visit, you'll have about 60,000,000 "professional" instructors at dance clubs and studios teaching people pattern after pattern of dance moves they can practice on the dance floor......that's what's selling right now....that's what's making people money.....not so much the music anymore - - as a club can pay some punk who loves downloading mp3s from the internet 300 bucks to play some absolutely awesome tunes all night long..... but the dancing.......and if you notice how many of the "new" salsa releases are just covers of old tunes (well....that happened in the 70's alot too.....so we're talking about remakes of remakes.....)

It's a completely different era man....and, seriously - - it's gonna continue to be one wild ride!

One thing you can do ..... educate yourself about the music......about the social trends that influenced the music.......about the cultures that have influenced the music.....about the various instruments used by different artists.........there's so much to learn and the biggest risk I think that we have - - is losing track of where all this came from.....in our attempt to learn a cross-body-lead.......we will no longer care who the hell Ignacio Pineiro is..........and that, my friend, would be sad =-(

Salsa is also huge in Colombia right now. A lot of artist are heading down there to record albums. Artists like Luisito Carrion, Tony Vega, Maelo Ruiz, and others are getting much respect down there. I live in New York and you still hear Salsa in lots of spots in the city.