Cuban Salsa Dance Styling – Havana, Cuba
21st August
Clip of the Boogalu Productions DVD “Mueve La Cintura”. Explore from over 50 videos on our Cuban Music & Dance Video Channel: http://www.boogalu-video.com
Duration : 0:0:58
Amazing Dancing Kid – Colombia – Salsa – Mambo – Son Montuno
11th August
THE FIRST TUNE IS: “Cogele el Golpe” (Grab the Beat) by Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez… THE SECOND TUNE IS: ‘Vitamina’ by Noro Morales… THE THIRD TUNE IS: ‘Mambo N úmero 8′ by Damaso Perez Prado…
Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The style was a fusion of popular African American R&B, rock and roll and soul with mambo and son montuno. Boogaloo entered the mainstream through the American Bandstand television program.
The boogaloo dance was loose and interpretive in style. Early Boogaloo used a twelve-step sequence that was later sped up into a thirty-step sequence. The most common musical feature was a mid-tempo, looping melody that doubled as the anchoring rhythm, often played on piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy, anthematic chorus, was another distinguishing feature, especially in comparison to more instrumental dances like the mambo, guajira and guaracha.
Nowadays, the footwork is similar to Pachanga, but tends to be fast and bouncy like jive and also usually counted over an eight beat pattern. In the 1950s and 60s, African Americans in the United States listened to a number of styles of music, including jump blues, R&B and doo wop. Puerto Ricans in New York City shared in these tastes, but also listened to genres like mambo or chachacha. There was much intermixing of Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans and Cubans, and African Americans, and clubs that catered to both groups tried to find musical common ground to attract both. Boogaloo was the result of this search, a marriage of many styles including Cuban son montuno and guajira, Puerto Rican/Cuban guaracha, mambo and most uniquely, American R&B/soul.
Boogaloo can be seen as “the first Nuyorican music” (René López), and has been called “the greatest potential that (Latinos) had to really cross over in terms of music” (Izzy Sanabria). Styles like doo wop also left a sizable infuence, through Tony Pabón (of Pete Rodríguez Band), Bobby Marín, King Nando, Johnny Colón and his vocalists Tony Rojas and Tito Ramos. Puerto Ricans (Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni) played a foundational role in the major doo wop group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. Herman Santiago was the author of the groups #1 “hit” “Why Do Fools Fall In Love”.
Though boogaloo did not become mainstream nationwide until later in the decade, two early Top 20 hits came in 1963: Mongo Santamaria’s performance of the Herbie Hancock piece “Watermelon Man” and Ray Barretto’s “El Watusi”. Inspired by these two successes, a number of bands began imitating their infectious rhythms (which were Latinized R&B), intense conga rhythms and clever novelty lyrics. Some long-time veteran Latin musicians played an occasional boogaloo number, including Perez Prado and Tito Puente, but most of the performers were teenagers like The Latin Souls, The Lat-Teens, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Joe Bataan, Joe Cuba Sextet, and The Latinaires.
The older generation of Latin musicians have even been accused of initially using their influence to repress this youth-oriented movement. The term boogaloo was probably coined in about 1966 by Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz. The biggest boogaloo hit of the 60s was “Bang Bang” by the Joe Cuba Sextet, which achieved unprecedented success for Latin music in the United States in 1966 when it sold over one million copies. Other hits included Johnny Colón’s “Boogaloo Blues,” Pete Rodríguez’s “I Like It Like That,” and Hector Rivera’s “At the Party”. Boogaloo also spread to Puerto Rico, where top band El Gran Combo released some material. Though the dance craze was over by the turn of the decade, boogaloo was popular enough that almost every major and minor Latin dance artist of the time recorded at least a few boogaloos on their albums.
The same year as Joe Cuba’s pop success, 1966, saw the closing of New York City’s Palladium Ballroom, a well-known venue that had been the home of big band mambo for many years. The closing marked the end of mainstream mambo, and boogaloo ruled the Latin charts for about two years before salsa music began to take over.
Boogaloo remains extremely popular to this day in Cali, Colombia, where the genre is played extensively, along with salsa and pachanga, in various FM and AM radio stations and hundreds of dance clubs. The Caleños also speed up Cha Cha Cha tunes, from 33 to 45 RPM, to create the boogaloo sound & rhythm to match the city’s fast dance style.
Duration : 0:6:42
Osbanis and Rafael with Farita – social dancing cuban salsa
20th July
Osbanis one of the UK’s best cuban teachers and dancers is filmed social dancing dancing with Farita to adalberto alvarez’s “deja la mala noche”. Watch out for Rafael’s cameo. Check out osbanis.com for more of the same!!!
Duration : 0:3:53
Best Salsa Dance
16th July
One of the best salsa dancingMusic Video – myinboxnews.com
15th July
Bryon Friedman plays "The Guessers" in KPCW studio, local musician returns from USA ski team competition – myinboxnews.com
Duration : 2 min 22 sec
Slide Whistle Salsa Phenom – Must C !!! (Part 9 of 999 ) OMG SERIES
12th July
Song: Nalgas de Panapa
Location: M.S.G.
Role: Opening act for Justin “Case” Timbacake
Band: Bees Ness & The Hives of Jive
Music Style: New Wave-Salsa
Amazing display of agility and musical acumen in the most difficult and dangerous use of the rare and technically challenging instrument called a Silderious Whistletosious more commonly known as a “Slide Whistle”.
Sit back and get ready to be amazed beyond the point of no regress by the legendary Panamanian punk-salsa master & Tito Puente protege BEES NESS.
This is Salsa & Slide Whistle at is God giving best.
Better than anything ever played by anyone bar nun.
If you doubt it then c 4 yourself. Hurry Hurry Hurry!!!!
- NYC TIMES REVIEW:
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” This is an aversion of Hector Lavoe’s & Willie Colon’s Murga de Panama. It is rumored that Hector is doing a counter clockwise cartwheels in his grave while Willie rolls his eyes in opposite directions.”
- VILLAGE VOCAL REVIEW:
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” Bees Ness knees to bee inducted into the Salsa Hall of Lame…err…Fame.”
Duration : 0:8:10
Music Video at KPCW – myinboxnews.com
9th July
small house strings performs "she never meant to," mellow song with a modern-folk vibe, classic spring paintings, footage of nature
Duration : 3 min 22 sec
Music Video – myinboxnews.com
7th July
Small House Strings plays Flood in KPCW Studio, nice bluegrass instrumental that sounds like the different speeds of flowing water in a flood – myinboxnews.com
Duration : 3 min 4 sec
Music Video – myinboxnews.com
3rd July
swagger irish band live at kpcw, live music, utah live music, park city live music, irish music, irish band, radio station live music, music pick, music video, – www.myinboxnews.com
Duration : 3 min 18 sec
Basic Salsa Dance Steps : How to do a Frisbee Turn in Salsa Dancing as a Couple
18th June
Learn how to perform a Frisbee turn as a couple when salsa dancing with expert Latin dancing instruction from a professional salsa dancer in this free online dance lesson and choreography video clip.
Expert: Erika Occhipinti
Bio: Erika Occhipinti has taught thousands of students at her own Salsa Caliente Dance Studio in Tampa, Fla.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:2:40
