What is puerto rico salsa music?
Salsa is categorized in three genres: Salsa Gorda, on which the harder edged rhythms of the golden age of the salsa movement during the 1960’s-70’s are used. Some examples of this genre are: El Gran Combo and Hector Lavoe. Salsa Monga, a more commercialized and “watered down” form of salsa. Examples of this genre are: Marc Anthony and Victor Manuelle. And Salsa Erotica which was a short lived movement that consisted on songs with sexually explicit lyrics. Two examples of performers of salsa erotica are: Frankie Ruiz and Lalo Rodriguez.