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**cliceperperIa** · 05-17-2012, 03:50 AM

They contributed but Cubans did. We already spoke about it and I even posted a chart where more than 10% of La Sonora Matancera's musicians and even their lead female singer were PR. Also Rafael Hernandez contributed plenty of his composition to what would later become Son. So we have an important imprint on it too particularly because that cultural influence always reached back to PR and PR's wer making similar ryth,s which ended up in Ponce~o salsa which integrated Bomba y Plena. A style that never had anything to do with the Salsa PR's in New York started to make out of the mix of cuban and american rythms, that latter style had the hand of a dominican in Pachecho.

05-17-2012, 03:50 AM	#13
cliceperperIa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 403 Senior Member	They contributed but Cubans did. We already spoke about it and I even posted a chart where more than 10% of La Sonora Matancera's musicians and even their lead female singer were PR. Also Rafael Hernandez contributed plenty of his composition to what would later become Son. So we have an important imprint on it too particularly because that cultural influence always reached back to PR and PR's wer making similar ryth,s which ended up in Ponce~o salsa which integrated Bomba y Plena. A style that never had anything to do with the Salsa PR's in New York started to make out of the mix of cuban and american rythms, that latter style had the hand of a dominican in Pachecho.
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