Otterpotter
Changui
I love that he dips the cowboy!!
What would it take for salsa to have a revival?
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So Bad Bunny won the grammy yesterday with his latest album. I don't know the other competing albums, but his one is indeed a good and important one.
www.latimes.com
Bad Bunny makes history with Grammy for album of the year, dedicates it to those who left their homeland
Bad Bunny’s 'Débi Tirar Más Fotos' was named album of the year at Sunday night’s 68th Grammy Awards — the first time a Spanish-language LP has won the Recording Academy’s most prestigious prize.
www.latimes.com
So Bad Bunny won the grammy yesterday with his latest album. I don't know the other competing albums, but his one is indeed a good and important one.
Bad Bunny makes history with Grammy for album of the year, dedicates it to those who left their homeland
Bad Bunny’s 'Débi Tirar Más Fotos' was named album of the year at Sunday night’s 68th Grammy Awards — the first time a Spanish-language LP has won the Recording Academy’s most prestigious prize.
I had a look through the list, some other salsa adjacent winners:
"Buena Vista Social Club" won best musical album
Gonzalo Rubalcaba won best latin jazz alubm with "A tribute to Benny More and Nat King Cole"
mostly feels like boleros rather than mambo/son/guaracha, except for this
Gloria Estefan won best tropical album with "Raíces" (ahead of Rubén Blades, Grupo Niche, Alain Pérez, Gilberto Santa Rosa)
May have missed some, there's so many categories
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The Pacific Mambo Orchestra (PMO) is a San Francisco-based Latin big band that won the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album in 2014 for their self-titled debut album.
They use to play every Monday at Cafe Cocomo back then for a year or two. It was all salsa music. The entry used to be $2 and later raised to $3. You could dance to the live band. Usual cover in those days for dancing to the live band used to be $15.00
They were regular in the area till Covid. They still might be.
We have more than a dozen bands in the area. New ones are formed frequently. Some have been around for 20-30 years.
Jaime_Pipoca
Changui
El Gran Combo had a tiny sample too.
I assume you mean the Un Verano en NY sample in which case I guess kinda counts. I worry that a lot of people won't know that it's a sample though - feels like more people I talk to recognize it as a Bad Bunny song than an sample.
In pre-digital age we often regarded the record sleeve while listening, and all the information like song composer names inevitably came to your eyesight so you noticed. In the streaming age it would cause extra effort to search this information and hardly anyone does. So I'm not surprised people don't know that it's a sample. I read that it also backfires to the current artists because many people stream music without knowing the names of these artists they like.
This would be one time where I don't object to English language salsa...don't know if they were trying to send a message or not but I won't complain.
Anyway why wasn't Agent Kraznov watching the Turning Point USA Alt-Halftime Show?
Even though the instrumentation is salsa music like, the way she sings I didn’t feel like I am listening to salsa music. Except when the interlude at 6:22 kicks in.
Wonder who are the dancers on the stage dancing salsa choreography. Are the dancers who were auditioned and put together or it is a hired salsa team.
Salsa song in English doesn’t give the same feeling as usual salsa music. I don’t know if it is how non-salsa singers vocalize the singing or it is English itself.
Because nobody whispered that idea in his ears
Or else he would have taken the credit. Better still tell him it could get him Nobel prize 
bailar y tocar
Son Montuno
Auditioned.
I know of a few people from LA who tried out and even got into the final elimination round but did not make it.
When Jenifer Lopez and Shakira did the Super Bowl show a few years ago, they brought Swing Latino dancers from Cali Colombia to do the dancing. I know a few people from that performance and even danced with some of the ladies when they were presenting later on at Swing Latino's home base El Mulato Cabaret in Cali.
1derpalm
Son Montuno
The least racist president in history.
1derpalm
Son Montuno
Nobel War PrizeBecause nobody whispered that idea in his ears
Somebody already salsafied this:
bailar y tocar
Son Montuno
FWIW, to Bad Bunny's credit, the song they performed to was mostly salsa and the dancers were dancing salsa. When Swing Latino performed, they got a choreo that did not have even a minute of real salsa and they did not do any couple's dancing if I recall correctly.
I only watched any of this on youtube. I would never watch the Superbowl. The idea of watching a sport that calls itself football yet they don't use a ball nor do they use their feet to advance the ball... its just....
.Plus to figure out what happened one has to wait for the television replay.
By contrast Rugby is exciting and Rugby 7s is off the chart.
I rewatched the show and I like it, some good music and normal people dancing, not some over-styled pro choreo. In the media the divide is clear: the left-wing media loved it, the right-wing media hated it. Nobody talks about the music though, they focus on the "message".
Reminds me to year 1970 hardrock when some people loved it because it was loud and the guys had long hair, and others hated it because it was loud and the guys had long hair. The music itself is mostly not in the focus.
Reminds me to year 1970 hardrock when some people loved it because it was loud and the guys had long hair, and others hated it because it was loud and the guys had long hair. The music itself is mostly not in the focus.