Standing backstage on Friday night during the fifth annual West Coast Salsa Congress at the Hollywood Park Casino, 74-year-old Ray Barretto looked like a gentle, unassuming grandfather figure. And yet ...

On the first of his two shows in Hong Kong, elder statesman of the conga drums Poncho Sanchez got the auditorium swinging with a salsa-inspired take on the late Ray Charles' One Mint Julep. The track, ...

To get a glimpse of how far and fast tropical music has fallen, consider the careening career of onetime merengue sensation Elvis Crespo. Four years ago, the shaggy-haired singer was the unlikely ...

Hector Rosado has experienced it several times, those moments in which he is so moved by the music that he has cried on top of his instrument. It has happened during long conga solos or while playing ...

Kids and conga were right on beat Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Conga Kids spring Dance Championship moved its way through downtown’s Microsoft Square, where Conga Kids danced away using their ...

Brad Gluckstein, center rear, with “So You Think You Can Dance” competitors Comfort Fedoke and Paul Karmiryan to his left, poses last fall during the Conga Kids competition at Esteban Torres High ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At Dr. Owen Knox Elementary in Los Angeles, salsa is in full swing with the "Conga Kids" program. "You learn a lot of new dances and you get a lot of exercise," said fifth-grader ...

Jason Derulo really got the crowd moving for the Saturday Night Takeaway End of the Show Show as he got the Florida holidaymakers to conga throughout Universal Orlando Resort. But it was Dec Donelly, ...

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So there's dancing—and there's dancing. As for the latter, you can now point your hips toward The Conga Room, a new super-sized version of the famed original Latin club. You'll find it in the L.A.

The Latin music venue celebrates its 20th anniversary in L.A. this year. By Rebecca Sun Senior Editor, Diversity & Inclusion UTA has signed The Conga Room, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively ...