User:Daniel Loma/sandbox

In 1954 in Ponce, the macheteros cane field laborers that cut the cane in the Sugar Mill plantations listened to music on the radio in the small lunch shops near the Sugar Factories. A rich businessman asked the Radio Station to change the spanish music for classical music. A leader from the cane field workers related to Hector La Voz called that Station WPAB in Ponce to change the music back to guitar groups music. He asked for Cortijo y su Combo music. The cane field workers listened to this music to make the hard work day less tedious. They added salsa to their rice and beans poor people staple lunch to add Flavor or Sabor. Since the program was promoted by the Salsa Companies like Del Monte, Libby's,Van Kamp then he said: "Play Cortijo y su Combo, Play Salsa!" Because this station was one of the strongest that reached the Caribbean and South America people began calling this kind of music Salsa. Among the titles of the first salsa hits is this one: Mataron Al Negrito Bembon. Besito de Coco, A Bailar Mi Bomba. This last one makes reference to Plena and Bomba dance that are afrocaribbean music with origins in Ponce Puerto Rico.