This is the most beautiful and sensual music that there is, said Hernandez, music director and pianist for the SHO. When you hear it, you cannot help but respond to it, as your senses take hold and ...

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...

Grupo Niche, a world-famous salsa band that's been creating beloved songs for over four decades, will perform in Carmel on Saturday, March 22. They are the best of the best of Latin music offerings ...

How does one reinvent salsa, a universally beloved and traditional music genre? That’s the question that 34-year-old salsero Luis Figueroa keeps asking himself. From touring the world with Romeo ...

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 ...

Summer in Boston usually abounds with opportunities to hear live music that draws on new and old traditions from across Latin America. The future of some of these opportunities is uncertain. Many of ...

Eddie Palmieri, the virtuosic keyboardist and visionary bandleader who helped define and then expanded the aesthetic parameters of the salsa genre, has died at the age of 88. His death was confirmed ...