The Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album is an honor presented annually by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and promo
Celia Cruz was the inaugural winner in 2000 for Celia Cruz and Friends: A Night of Salsa. She has also won the awards two more times.
Two-time winners El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
Four-time winner Marc Anthony.
Two-time winner Gilberto Santa Rosa.
Salsa music
Videos
Salsa is a style of dance music mainly influenced by Caribbean traditions and music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and other countries such as Colombia and Venezuela, where African cu
Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album
…United States and internationally. According to the category description guide for the 2012 Latin Grammy Awards, the award is for vocal or instrumental salsa albums containing at least 51 percent of newly recorded material. It is awarded to solo artists, duos or groups. The accolade for Best Salsa Album was…
Tumbadoras (conga drums), one of the basic instruments of salsa music
Graciela on claves and her brother Machito on maracas; Machito said that salsa was much like what he had been playing from the 1940s.
Bongos
Roger Dawson hosted a very popular Las Vegas radio show featuring salsa.