Music of Puerto Rico centers. After the island was taken over by Spain, the music and dance of Puerto Rico consisted of a combination of the harmonious musical styles that are borrowed from Spanish, African, and other European cultures, creating Puerto Rico's signature style of Latin dance. Salsa is a Spanish word that means sauce. It refers to the mixture of different rhythms composed of different Latin, African and Caribbean dances. Salsa is said to be first created around the 1960s and became popular to the non-Latino world drastically. The salsa dance is similar to the mambo dance. Salsa dancing is structured in six
Puerto Rican Day Parade did not march, as well as NYPD's Gay Officer Action League and NYPD Police Commissioner James O'Neill. Additional sponsors to withdraw from the parade include Coca-Cola, AT&T, and the New York Yankees. Puerto Rican salsa singer Willie Colón criticized the parade organizers as having gone too far, while six-time Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican salsa singer Gilberto Santa Rosa himself led the parade procession. After public and corporate backlash, Mayor de Blasio had announced that López Rivera would not be honored at the 2017 parade as López Rivera wished to keep the focus on Puerto Rico rather than himself. Puerto Rican