WELCOME TO LA SALSA VIVE !!

Our Latin Jazz/Salsa dance Festival of May 29th 2011, celebrated at Columbus 72, was a great success. We wish to thank all those that made it possible. To see the videos, pictures and all the details about this memorable day, click on this link; Latin Jazz/Salsa Dance Festival 5-29-11, or go to our event page..

Welcome!!! mi casa es tu casa!  We hope  and wish that your visit here is  productive, entertaining, and that we will be able to help you with the link or information you are seeking.

      Our July Playlist -01 ..... Enjoy it !!!!

Every two weeks we will bring our new play list with either new music, or rare Latin Jazz and Salsa dura. If you would like us to feature your music, please send us the promo clips at lasalsavive@live.com, If we like the music we will add  it to one of our bi-weekly playlist. 

          Revisiting the Bronx... Watch this great Memories of the Bronx in the  

        1970s. Photographs of the South Bronx, when the South

         Bronx was the symbol of New York City's decline.

         A snapshot of New York history. Photographed and Narrated by David Gonzalez

Click on link below to see the slide show

                   The way we were!!    

  A great new book, by a new writer

The Story of Papo Salsa By Pedro E. Acevedo

Click on the book image for a book review and ways to get it

                                      Individuals

   If you share our passion for promoting, enhancing  and developing our culture, our music to  greater recognition and  enjoyment of the contemporary music cultures that originated in  Africa and the African Diaspora, then traveled to Cuba and the Caribean Island, and later on in the 1960's gave birth in the streets of NEW YORK CITY TO OUR MUCH LOVE SALSA.

We encourage you to become a Friend by sponsoring us, our salsa dance, our music and dance events, our cultural events. Please email us a  lasalsavive@live.com , A benefit of your sponsorship kit will be emailed to you. We will  gratefully recognized you on our newsletter, and radio show.

Companies  

 If your company or organization would like to   reach  and be part of our Sponsors, partners and help us to continue and keep this music and this culture alive and spread it across the glove to the  diverse, globally  audience of non  commercial and Internet radio listeners and web visitors with a  focused message of who you are and what you do   for our community to help enhance and develop our Latin music. You can email us at lasalsavive@live,com.   

                       The Heart of Africa is alive and beating in Cuba- Dizzie Gillespie.

Afro Cuban music was developed by Cuban musicians of African descent in a transition from the drum sounds of Africans in 16th century Cuba, and passed through generations to the more modern sounds of the 19th and 20th century compositions. Cubans have always embraced this long tradition as a sacred-like jewel in their history. Dizzie Gillespie expressed the sentiment of Afro Cuban traditions when he said, "The heart of Africa is alive and beating in Cuba". This has remained true to this day

For more insight on the beginning of our music, go to our salsa y mas page....

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PLEASE SUPPORT SALSA IN ANY WAY OR FORM YOU ARE ABLE TO. You can support this music, by hiring the bands or attending and demanding live entertainment. Attend the events, buy the music and support all the cultural events that are related to this music... SALSA!!!

Many people all over the world, have asked, for the definition of salsa..... What does it mean.. Where it came from, and above all the origin of this music and this exotic rhythms!!!

Salsa…. Born from Mambo (Its African meaning is Conversing with Gods)

 We don’t consider ourselves the main source in defining what salsa is, what does it means, where it came from? 

There is a lot of debate about the place where salsa was born. Many of the old school Cuban musicians adhere to the belief that there is no such thing as salsa.  Tito Puente,  summed up their general feeling when asked what he thought of salsa by replying: “I’m a musician, not a cook.”

Salsa is a word that inspires an instant reaction in Latin music lovers everywhere. It is the rhythm, the dance, the musical excitement that sends millions of normally sedate non-Latinos to the dance floor where they meet their Latin neighbors, who are too busy enjoying the music to notice.

We want to  spread the vision, that Salsa music and dance, is very therapeutic and a big medicine... This page, is for ANYONE  who is into the INTERCULTURAL salsa scene, those that are willing to explore it, and integrate it into their lives.

This means, it's for those who are adapting to our traditional arts and cultures into a form usable multi culturally in today's global society.

Some of us are just embarking upon our SALSA journey, and others have been into it for many years, but we all share one thing in common; a love for this music, and dance,  and perhaps a belief that our music can somehow be used to change things for the better.