Los rostros de la salsa

The true and most intimate chronicles of the Caribbean have been narrated by the songs. And Leonardo Padura knows that well, who in this work has masterfully taken the pulse of a genre, that of salsa, which has been discussed since its own birth, at the beginning of the seventies. Conversing with the musicians who coined it and with its most famous interpreters, the author gives us a beautiful portrait of the trajectories of such fascinating characters as Mario Bauzá, Cachao López, Papo Lucca, Juan Luis Guerra, Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, Johnny Pacheco and Juan Formell, with -it could not be otherwise- the famous Celia Cruz and Tito Puente as a backdrop. And he achieves a unique panorama with the rhythms that shaped the Latin musical culture of the late 20th century.