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
Cuban Spanish to the Venezuelan, Cuban, Costa Rican, Dominican, and Colombian dialects. The suffix "-ero" is often used with a place name to refer to a person from that place; thus "habanero", "guantanamera", etc. A person from Santiago de Cuba is "santiaguero" (compare "santiagués" "from Santiago de Compostela (Spain)", "santiaguino" "from Santiago de Chile"). "Wh"-questions, when the subject is a pronoun, are usually not inverted. Where speakers of most other varieties of Spanish would ask "¿Qué quieres?" or "¿Qué quieres tú?", Cuban speakers would more often ask "¿Qué tú quieres?" (This form is also characteristic of Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish.) In