Latin soul Latin soul Latin soul (and related Boogaloo) was a short lived musical genre which developed in the 1960s in New York City. It consisted of a blend of Cuban mambo with elements of Latin jazz and soul music. Although short-lived, the genre had a great influence on the growing Salsa movement which would dominate the New York Latin music scene in the 1970s. Today, the term is typically used by Hispanic artists producing R&B or soul music. Latin soul placed a heavy emphasis on its Afro-Cuban rhythms and featured songs sung mostly in English. The style grew out of an
History of the Latin script into English for the consonant in the 17th century (it had been rare as a vowel), but it was not universally considered a distinct letter in the alphabetic order until the 19th century. The names of the letters were largely unchanged, with the exception of H. As the sound disappeared from the Romance languages, the original Latin name "hā" became difficult to distinguish from A. Emphatic forms such as and were used, developing eventually into "acca", the direct ancestor of English "aitch". With the spread of printing, several styles of Latin typography emerged with fonts based on various minuscules of