Yuri Buenaventura at Jamboree - Mas i Mas Festival

New York salsa hasn't changed; Yuri Buenaventura comes from there, from that angular and sensual salsa, romantic and combative, from the historic albums of the Fania All Stars.

"Speaking of the origin of this music is speaking of the Spaniards who left their country to seek a new life and got lost in the jungle among mosquitoes and snakes; of the Africans who were thrown on ships and whipped to make them work; of the Amerindians assaulted by absolute evil with their cross, who massacred them because they believed in the gods of the river and the sun. And then, within this tragedy, another tragedy: the exodus of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans, leaving their island under the sun to go to the winter of the humble neighborhoods of New York. Well, New York salsa is this music." When the general public discovered him in France with his extraordinary version of "Ne me quitte pas" in 1996, Yuri Buenaventura opened the doors to a renewed interest in Latin music, always insisting on its roots, inseparable from its history. "Refusing to let artificial intelligence write the music, wearing a suit to give a concert, is paying tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, who were asked to enter through the back door of white clubs, and who couldn't sleep in the hotels where they played because blacks were not allowed in the rooms."

Let's take advantage of it: salsa, even romantic salsa, is history danced.