Besides the humidity, the evening in Little Haiti was picturesque. Palm trees swayed, the sun set turned the sky into cotton-candy colors and hundreds of twentysomethings were gathered wearing ...

There’s a Disney World for salseros, and it doesn’t take four hours to get there. The Miami Salsa Congress, now in its 18th year, is back with a salsa extravaganza July 20 through 28. The event, which ...

When Elisa Baena first started taking salsa classes in her early twenties, she was usually the youngest person in the room by a decade or more. “I would complain to my mom, ‘I don’t want to dance with ...

Rene Gueits, founder of Salsa Lovers dance studio, was born and raised in Miami. Photo provided to the Miami Herald I was born in Miami in 1966 and raised in Hialeah. When I got older I moved down to ...

MIAMI (AP) – In his most famous song, "The Bridge," Cuban salsa singer Manuel "Manolín" González croons about creating a bridge between Miami and Havana. "A bridge made up of long sleeves," he sings. ...

Few things scream Miami more than salsa dancing, rum and cigars. Chris is still trying to figure out which salsa he likes better: the music or the kind you dip your chips in. While he ponders that, we ...

Members of the Miami-based Colombian-American salsa band Sonora Carruseles. Maybe you’ve never heard of the Miami salsa band Sonora Carruseles. But President Obama has. This week he put one of the ...

The legendary musician Willie Colón, one of the most iconic figures in salsa and the Nuyorican salsa movement, died Saturday at the age of 75, his family confirmed in a message posted on his social ...

Marisol Blanco performs in the traditional Afro-Cuban dress inspired by Yemayá, an African mother deity of the seas." For the last 12 years, Marisol Blanco has been fighting against numbers.