The incredible story of salsa, queen of Latin music and dancing, is lost in the mists of time. Actually if they wanted to address the root causes, as did American anthropologists and historians, we should not browse many pages on the history of antiquity. The events related to the conquest of America, the sociological process of transculturation, the unknown variants-devotional ritual, the endless mixing music, colonization. The Mexican writer and poet Octavio Paz said: "The facts are inseparable from the works. The culture and history. And you can add that what is proper to the history and culture and that there is no other history than that of culture, the works of men, than men in their works. " According to the dictionary of the "Royal Academy Espanola" the sauce is a mixture of various edible substances that is used for flavoring in cooking, but for us that we eat the ingredients are sound "condimentos musicales." The book "Salsa y Bayle" Enzo Conte, who fills a hole in the literary field, offers a fascinating journey into the world of Afro-Caribbean dances, the salsa and the culture associated with it. In the book reads: "There are many hypotheses on the origin of the term salsa. According to Cuban salsa was always part of the culinary lexicon-Cuban music and Ignacio Pineiro had already used in a classic twenties entitled" Echale sauce. In the first decades of the twentieth century, therefore, this "mezcla magic already circulating in the ether. Apart from the well-known obsession of historians want to buckle given to all the revolutionary changes in the long run of a certain size (this time for the truth was a musicologist) interested in understanding why so much fuss for a genre like so many others in some respects. Like a beautiful woman seduces the sauce, attracts, enchants. backbone people of Latin salsa music reveals itself as a English idiom was a sublime song, the moment the ball for the body becomes the perennial struggle of movement and the heart is pierced by an infinite feelings. A miracle, which is realized through the magic of humanizing his music. In many of his delightful singing Cheo Feliciano, never forgotten voice of Latin music, often evokes the theme of harmonious rhythmic, sensual salsa; beauty dance, musical fantasy, absolute privilege. The case of salsa is a further confirmation that the best ideas are often made overseas. In the great crossroads of cultures that is New York, since the forties met Cuban musicians, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Dominicans. Pushed out of their country from poverty and want to experiment, "Latinos," in that part of the South Bronx called el barrio, preparing the merger that will explode in the sixties. The Venezuelan musicologist César Miguel Rondón about wrote: "... it is an open form capable of representing all of the trends that come together in the circumstance of the Caribbean city of today, the barrio is still the only brand ultimately." Discovered in Italy, belatedly, the sauce is contagious. sprout like mushrooms in the capital, the "Salsoteca", places of meeting the love Latin. Perito Calvo's former leader singer of the Cuban group Los Van Van, before an audience into a frenzy said: "Aquí el que baila gana" which translated means there dancers takes, wins. If there is an achievement, however, that knowledge is another. The cultural encounter with the sauce, it is just music, it is just dance, or both, manifested through the exchange of ideas, projects and relationships between seemingly different worlds. Above all he highlighting its true sense of grandeur: the infinite possibility of being enchanted.
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