Salsa dancing is originally from Cuba. As it moved to Puerto Rico and other Caribbean nations, it picked up influences from there. Salsa also is mixed with pop, jazz, R&B, and many other musical styles.
Salsa music contains some key instruments. Percussion is a major instrument for salsa music. Claves, cowbells, timbales and conga are used to make a salsa song. Other instruments used are trumpets, trombones, guitar, and the piano and many more.
Salsa music is versatile and can be about anything. Salsa romantica are love songs. Salseros also write about social and political issues, activism, and songs to protest something. A salsa artist can write religious songs. Some salseros choose to write music to show their love for their homeland. Salsa songs also contain lyrics that are machista or male dominated. Some women have come along and written songs to show their strength and dominance as a mujer latina, Latin woman.
Salsa is versatile. It contains many styles and influences!
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