In many latin countries salsero or salsera means more than just someone who dances salsa. A person claiming to be a salsero has to like the right kind of salsa music ie. Salsa from the 1960's and 1970's and the best of hard salsa from the 70's onwards. He or she will have at least a fair knowledge of the history of this music and will have quite a good collection of GOOD salsa music(originals not pirates). His or her dancing ability may be somewhere in between fair and fantastic. If I meet a person who says he is a salsero and his favorite artists are Jerry Rivera and Marc Anthony, then I know that he is not. It is as simple as that. It will not matter if he is a salsa dance teacher (which he should not be if he is not a Salsero), or that he can throw his partner in the air and catch her while doing a backflip. The term salsero has generally used to describe people who dance salsa and all I am saying is that this is not strictly correct. There are problems in the salsa scene today because there are not enough real salseros in the business today. Examples include DJ´s who massacre the dancefloor with salsa romantica and merengues and other not so complementary rhythms,and dance teachers who do not understand the music to which their students are supposed to learn to dance to - how many times have I seen so called salsa professors turning their partners like mad to mid tempo Papo Lucca piano grooves. Don't bother asking them who Papo Lucca is either, because most of them will think that he is someone who lives in the Vatican. Unfortunately this is as true in London as it is here in Rio and I suspect in good many salsa cities throughout the world, mainly because of the dark side of commercialization as opposed to the good side that made the salsa boom possible in the first place. Maybe to make things simple, we should refer to the real salseros as Salseros and the rest as just salseros. Regards from Rio DJ ARA salsainrio.com

• Salsaro or Salsera ?   SalsaJester (Michael)   Tuesday 17th December 2002, 3:15 pm
  • Salsaro or Salsera ?   Dave G   Tuesday 17th December 2002, 6:14 pm
    • Salsaro or Salsera ?   SalsaJester (Michael)   Friday 20th December 2002, 11:10 am
    • Salsaro or Salsera ?   andy   Wednesday 18th December 2002, 12:24 pm
      • Salsaro or Salsera ?   Dave G   Wednesday 18th December 2002, 3:18 pm
        • Salsaro or Salsera ?   andy   Friday 20th December 2002, 1:12 pm
        • Salsaro or Salsera ?   the_bishop (Billy Bob)   Wednesday 18th December 2002, 6:18 pm
          • Salsaro or Salsera ?   sweavo (Steve Carter)   Tuesday 11th February 2003, 6:08 pm
            • Salsaro or Salsera ?   Dave G   Wednesday 12th February 2003, 5:26 pm
            • Salsaro or Salsera ?   Nickylg (Nicky Lloyd Greame)   Tuesday 11th February 2003, 6:36 pm
  • Salsaro or Salsera ?   Cosilongo (Matthew Cooke)   Tuesday 17th December 2002, 3:19 pm
    • >> Salsaro or Salsera ?   DJ ARA (Ara-k)   Wednesday 18th December 2002, 11:35 pm
      • Salsaro or Salsera ?   andy   Friday 20th December 2002, 1:40 pm
        • Salsaro or Salsera ?   Dave G   Friday 20th December 2002, 2:22 pm
          • Salsaro or Salsera ?   andy   Friday 20th December 2002, 6:57 pm
            • Salsaro or Salsera ?   Dave G   Friday 27th December 2002, 4:07 pm
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