Amazing Dancing Kid - Colombia - Salsa - Mambo - Son Montuno

THE FIRST TUNE IS: "Cogele el Golpe" (Grab the Beat) by Israel 'Cachao' Lopez... THE SECOND TUNE IS: 'Vitamina' by Noro Morales... THE THIRD TUNE IS: 'Mambo N úmero 8' by Damaso Perez Prado...

Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The style was a fusion of popular African American R&B, rock and roll and soul with mambo and son montuno. Boogaloo entered the mainstream through the American Bandstand television program.

The boogaloo dance was loose and interpretive in style. Early Boogaloo used a twelve-step sequence that was later sped up into a thirty-step sequence. The most common musical feature was a mid-tempo, looping melody that doubled as the anchoring rhythm, often played on piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy, anthematic chorus, was another distinguishing feature, especially in comparison to more instrumental dances like the mambo, guajira and guaracha.

Nowadays, the footwork is similar to Pachanga, but tends to be fast and bouncy like jive and also usually counted over an eight beat pattern. In the 1950s and 60s, African Americans in the United States listened to a number of styles of music, including jump blues, R&B and doo wop. Puerto Ricans in New York City shared in these tastes, but also listened to genres like mambo or chachacha. There was much intermixing of Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans and Cubans, and African Americans, and clubs that catered to both groups tried to find musical common ground to attract both. Boogaloo was the result of this search, a marriage of many styles including Cuban son montuno and guajira, Puerto Rican/Cuban guaracha, mambo and most uniquely, American R&B/soul.

Boogaloo can be seen as "the first Nuyorican music" (René López), and has been called "the greatest potential that (Latinos) had to really cross over in terms of music" (Izzy Sanabria). Styles like doo wop also left a sizable infuence, through Tony Pabón (of Pete Rodríguez Band), Bobby Marín, King Nando, Johnny Colón and his vocalists Tony Rojas and Tito Ramos. Puerto Ricans (Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni) played a foundational role in the major doo wop group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. Herman Santiago was the author of the groups #1 "hit" "Why Do Fools Fall In Love".

Though boogaloo did not become mainstream nationwide until later in the decade, two early Top 20 hits came in 1963: Mongo Santamaria's performance of the Herbie Hancock piece "Watermelon Man" and Ray Barretto's "El Watusi". Inspired by these two successes, a number of bands began imitating their infectious rhythms (which were Latinized R&B), intense conga rhythms and clever novelty lyrics. Some long-time veteran Latin musicians played an occasional boogaloo number, including Perez Prado and Tito Puente, but most of the performers were teenagers like The Latin Souls, The Lat-Teens, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Joe Bataan, Joe Cuba Sextet, and The Latinaires.

The older generation of Latin musicians have even been accused of initially using their influence to repress this youth-oriented movement. The term boogaloo was probably coined in about 1966 by Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz. The biggest boogaloo hit of the 60s was "Bang Bang" by the Joe Cuba Sextet, which achieved unprecedented success for Latin music in the United States in 1966 when it sold over one million copies. Other hits included Johnny Colón's "Boogaloo Blues," Pete Rodríguez's "I Like It Like That," and Hector Rivera's "At the Party". Boogaloo also spread to Puerto Rico, where top band El Gran Combo released some material. Though the dance craze was over by the turn of the decade, boogaloo was popular enough that almost every major and minor Latin dance artist of the time recorded at least a few boogaloos on their albums.

The same year as Joe Cuba's pop success, 1966, saw the closing of New York City's Palladium Ballroom, a well-known venue that had been the home of big band mambo for many years. The closing marked the end of mainstream mambo, and boogaloo ruled the Latin charts for about two years before salsa music began to take over.

Boogaloo remains extremely popular to this day in Cali, Colombia, where the genre is played extensively, along with salsa and pachanga, in various FM and AM radio stations and hundreds of dance clubs. The Caleños also speed up Cha Cha Cha tunes, from 33 to 45 RPM, to create the boogaloo sound & rhythm to match the city's fast dance style.

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[maosolito]

CASCARET..... se nota que no sabes mucho...... si para ti OSCAR DE LEON es uno de los mejores exponentes de la musica CUBANA........ siendo que el es VENEZOLANO............. pero bueno, en todas partes del mundo hay retrasados mentales y tu eres uno de los mejores exponentes de esa categoria........ VIVA COLOMBIA y saludos a todos los que disfrutamos la buena salsa sin importar su origen........ exceptuando a los retrasados mentales........

[amborsiabt]

AMAZING!!!!! Colombian talent!! Colombia, the world awaits you!!!!! Import this!

[xxpilarcitaxx]

ME PUEDEN DECIR EN QUE SITIO DE CALI ES ESTO? ME GUSTARIA IR CUANDO VAYA ... MUY LINDO EL CHINO...ME ENCANTA COMO BAILA. VA A SER UN SUPER BAILARIN CUANDO GRANDE...MUCHAS FELICITACIONES Y GRACIAS POR PONER ESTOS VIDEOS TAN CHEVERES DE NUESTRA CULTURA COLOMBIANA.... QUE VIVA COLOMBIA Y TODA LA MUSICA ...YA SEA COLOMBIANA, CUBANA, PUERTO RIQUENA, MEXICANA.....ETC ETC :)

[huehuetecolive]

MMMMM PUES SE MUEVE RAPIDO Y SERA LO KE SERA PERO NADA K VER CON EL SABOR UN MONTUNO.

MMMM YO PIENSO K LE KEDARIA BIEN UNA ROLA DE MICHAEL JACKSON XD XD

[junioresh]

Me encantto

[junioresh]

Me encanto como vaila el nino

[pachonovoa65]

@cascaret Im totally sure you are the kind of idiot retarded that ask like someone did once, IN WHAT PART OF MEXICO IS COLOMBIA? MORON

[pachonovoa65]

@cascaret de donde sos vos bestia, no creo q seas cubano porq cualquiera q sepa un poquito de salsa sabe q Osacar de Leon es Venezolano, retrasado apuesto un guevo q no podes nombrar dos de las orquestas de salsa o son cubano . cualquier caleno las sabe, las hemos visto tocar en nuestra cali bella por los ultimos 50 anos, preguntale a cualquier orquesta o cantante de salsa que piensan de Cali, solo ellos saben.

[13johncaro]

como diria el perro guau.........

[frozenky]

Los pasos de esta salsa villera no se llevan para nada bien con los pasos de la original Salsa cubana.! ay no mas el dato por eso cuando un@ colombian@ y un@ cubano se ponen a bailar salsa no mas no se entienden cada uno trae diferente Sabor.

[SkullBeneath]

ese chamaco esta fuera de liga!

[iLConker]

mierda, cómo baila ese niño, y yo con suerte mantengo la coordinación para caminar xD