Salsa Music Since Columbus “discovered” America and the slave trade began, music has always been a very important part of the Cuban culture. Cuba’s strategic position in the Caribbean, made it a real crossroad for all the trades between Central and North America and for most of the incoming slave ships from Africa. Cuba became a “sponge” that absorbed and processed all the surrounding music influences and all the incoming African rhythms and melodies. …showed first 75 words of 1204 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1204 total…about any foreign influences. “I find my self bringing more and different elements into the music I’m composing, some rap and some new African rhythms, but at its heart it remains Cuban.” he says. If you ask a Cuban “How can you survive the poverty and humiliations?” he will tell you “Cubans live on music the way others live on bread and water. That’s enough right there to keep us producing something unique.”