Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s ...
The late Cuban American singer Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa, will be the first Afro Latina to appear on the U.S. quarter. Cruz was one of the 20th century's most celebrated Latin music ...
He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.” Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From ...
Eighties R&B and pop hitmaker Brenda K. Starr, known for the power ballad "I Still Believe," is among the performers lined up for Festival Latino 2024 in August, according to an announcement by the ...
In “Las Hermanas Palacios,” a sea of vibrant colors, geometric designs, salsa music, ’80s Latin dance-pop, ostrich feathers and palm trees hits you just minutes into the show’s opening scene. It ...