Standing backstage on Friday night during the fifth annual West Coast Salsa Congress at the Hollywood Park Casino, 74-year-old Ray Barretto looked like a gentle, unassuming grandfather figure. And yet ...

At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice,” he said. “Salsa is ...

Salsa musicians Clodomiro Montes and his wife, Karina Zurita, photographed at Victory Park in Glendora, Calif., have lost all their gigs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles ...

Kids and conga were right on beat Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Conga Kids spring Dance Championship moved its way through downtown’s Microsoft Square, where Conga Kids danced away using their ...

Puerto Rico, before the sun rises, circa 1965. Papi, after being out all night with the guys (and drinking whiskey), arrives home and wakes up his young girls: Come, come listen to this, he’d implore.

Get your salsa on with our step-by-step tutorial When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The congas are a set of one to four long, floor- ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At Dr. Owen Knox Elementary in Los Angeles, salsa is in full swing with the "Conga Kids" program. "You learn a lot of new dances and you get a lot of exercise," said fifth-grader ...

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Jason Derulo really got the crowd moving for the Saturday Night Takeaway End of the Show Show as he got the Florida holidaymakers to conga throughout Universal Orlando Resort. But it was Dec Donelly, ...