Ran-kan-kan: Long before I could name the source of my excitement, my body responded to the strident signature of Latin dance ...

Salsa was created when ... despised by the old-time band leaders like Johnny Pacheco, who together with lawyer Jerry Masucci, started Fania Records to create a music that merged old and new.

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