Salsa Music .. Its driving beat will get you moving!

I'm sitting here listening to salsa music. It makes me feel like grabbing the closest girl and dancing with her. Unfortunately, there aren't any salseras around right now so I'll just have to wait till another day to get my fix of salsa dancing.

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Music with lyrics I don't understand

I don't know enough Spanish to understand what the songs are saying so I can listen to them while I drive. I had a Spanish girl in my car and she was a little shocked that I could listen to salsa in my car. She said that she can't listen to it because she understands everything. I asked her to clue me in. Apparantly the some of the songs are about bad relationships?

I had her listen to one. I can't remember the title of the music though. Roughly translated, it was about some guy that had a girlfriend, but the girl was cheating on him with another girl.

I hope to learn Spanish enough so that one day I'll understand the lyrics. Then I should be able to dance with more feeling knowing what the songs are about.

More on salsa music..

Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Caribbean and Latin genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad. Salsa incorporates multiple styles and variations; the term can be used to describe most any form of popular Cuban-derived genre, such as chachachá and mambo. Most specifically, however, salsa refers to a particular style developed by the 1960s and '70s Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants to the New York City area, and stylistic descendants like 1980s salsa romantica. The style is now practiced throughout Latin America, and abroad; in some countries it may be referred to as música tropical.[1] Salsa's closest relatives are Cuban mambo and the son orchestras of the early 20th century, as well as Latin jazz. The terms Latin jazz and salsa are sometimes used interchangeably; many musicians are considered a part of either, or both, fields, especially performers from prior to the 1970s.[2]

Salsa is essentially Cuban in stylistic origin, though it is also a hybrid of various Latin styles mixed with pop, jazz, rock, and R&B.[3] Salsa is the primary music played at Latin dance clubs and is the "essential pulse of Latin music", according to author Ed Morales,[4] while music author Peter Manuel called it the "most popular dance (music) among Puerto Rican and Cuban communities, (and in) Central and South America", and "one of the most dynamic and significant pan-American musical phenomena of the 1970s and 1980s".[5] Modern salsa remains a dance-oriented genre and is closely associated with a style of salsa dancing.

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El Gran Combo !

I've been fortunate enough to listen to this salsa group in person this July 3rd, 2006. They held a free concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, PA !

See a little bit of El Gran Combo here.