Standing backstage on Friday night during the fifth annual West Coast Salsa Congress at the Hollywood Park Casino, 74-year-old Ray Barretto looked like a gentle, unassuming grandfather figure. And yet ...

Hector Rosado has experienced it several times, those moments in which he is so moved by the music that he has cried on top of his instrument. It has happened during long conga solos or while playing ...

On the first of his two shows in Hong Kong, elder statesman of the conga drums Poncho Sanchez got the auditorium swinging with a salsa-inspired take on the late Ray Charles' One Mint Julep. The track, ...

Luis Enrique's performance at the Conga Room in Los Angeles as part of the Latin music series "Latin Kings of Salsa" heated up with every song and every step in an addictive, high-energy show. By ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At Dr. Owen Knox Elementary in Los Angeles, salsa is in full swing with the "Conga Kids" program. "You learn a lot of new dances and you get a lot of exercise," said fifth-grader ...

Brad Gluckstein, center rear, with “So You Think You Can Dance” competitors Comfort Fedoke and Paul Karmiryan to his left, poses last fall during the Conga Kids competition at Esteban Torres High ...

8:49 a.m. March 29, 2024: A previous version of this story said that singer-songwriter Blessd performed at the event. He did not. The article also said that the Conga Kids program has served 50,000 ...

La salsa nació de los llantos de las heridas y los gritos de la resistencia. En los puertos del Caribe, donde se cruzaron ...