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Eduardo Herrera. The Man Behind Every Song – The Story of His Music

Latin America / Puerto Rico / Puerto Rico
Eduardo Herrera
Eduardo Herrera

“There’s a wide variety of artists, singers, and famous orchestras in different parts of the world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t discover new artists who have the motivation and desire to boost their musical talent. Here, we have as our guest Eduardo Herrera, a salsa and ballad singer.

Eduardo is the son of Puerto Rican parents, raised in New York with a ‘boricua sazón’ (Puerto Rican flavor/style). From a very young age, he fell in love with music, and over time, he gained many musical experiences in different genres with Latin nuances and foreign fusions.

He mentions that when he was younger, he participated in youth choirs on stages and attended concerts of great artists, learning the lyrics of urban music. As time passed, he captivated the perfect school that shaped his unique style; it includes spiritual music, Latin rhythms, and the influence of American styles without abandoning his Puerto Rican roots. He also mentions that he had the opportunity to share and collaborate with very famous artists who influenced him with their exceptional style and talent, even to this day.

Eduardo Herrera comments that his music is a collection of life experiences that many people identify with. It has no age or time; it has ‘sazón,’ Caribbean rhythm, and soulfulness.

When you hear the melody, you fall in love; when you pay attention to the lyrics, you are captivated; when you listen to it again, you turn it into something that identifies you, regardless of your age, race, condition, or gender.

It simply identifies what no one else sees or knows in or about you. In fact, his songs tell stories; they tell your life, his, and mine. Each story on a bus or train in New York, each event in family life or with a stranger, the stories of the fans, among others.”

“Eduardo Herrera comments that his music is a collection of life experiences that many people identify with. It has no age or time; it has ‘sazón,’ Caribbean rhythm, and soulfulness.

When you hear the melody, you fall in love; when you pay attention to the lyrics, you are captivated; when you listen to it again, you turn it into something that identifies you, regardless of your age, race, condition, or gender. It simply identifies what no one else sees or knows in or about you. In fact, his songs tell stories; they tell your life, his, and mine. Each story on a bus or train in New York, each event in family life or with a stranger, the stories of the fans, among others.

Eduardo Herrera - El Amor
Eduardo Herrera – El Amor

In the course of his life, he mentions that it was a transition as he went through many positive and negative life experiences, which allowed him to gain different meanings for the emotions he felt, whether real or false. All these experiences helped him help others, such as in personal growth.

In ‘Salsa‘ and ‘Balada,’ he has found his perfect space to express what he carries in his life’s baggage. Hoping that many couples will have a happy life to the rhythm of his music. Eduardo told us, ‘To achieve that emotional catharsis that lifts you up from any tragedy, it is necessary to LOVE YOURSELF BEFORE LOVING SOMEONE.’ So remember that when you listen to Eduardo Herrera’s music: ‘LOVE YOURSELF BEFORE LOVING SOMEONE.’

Recognizing the value of an individual and appreciating their abilities while learning from mistakes, that is what defines every song you will hear from Eduardo. The message will arrive; it’s up to you for the outcome to be happy. Because you learn from the difficulties in the process, the final result depends on how you handle the ‘tests’ to qualify yourself in feelings for the life you choose to live.

If you wish to know more about him:

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eduardoherrerasalsa
  • Instagram: eduardoherrerasalsa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Phone: 787 399 5064

 

Cache Live Music puts Miami to dance to traditional Latin music

Roland Cache graced this edition with his presence to tell us about his beginnings, the subsequent creation of his band Cache Live Music, and his current career. The American of Cuban descent honors his roots with the music he and his collaborators play to delight their fans at any event they are hired, indicating the pride he feels in representing his parents’ country and how passionate he is about his craft.

Roland shared many interesting details about his musical life, and we are more than happy to share them with our readers in the following lines.

Roland Cache playing
Roland Cache playing drums live at an event

Roland’s musical beginnings as a teenager

As a child, Roland lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where some high school friends convinced him to play drums with them. Their favorite genre was the rock of the day, which was the 1960s. A few years later, specifically in 1973, another friend took him to a salsa concert at Madison Square Garden, and he liked what he heard so much that he became more involved in Latin music and left American music aside. 

Seeing great artists such as Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, and other artists of Puerto Rican descent, he learned to play timbales, tumbadora, and bongos, which allows him to play a combination of conga, timbales, and clave at the same time. 

Orchestras prior to Cache Live Music

Before creating his own band, Roland was part of other projects that were training him for what was to come in his career later. One of them was a band from New Jersey, whose members formed La Charanga Casino, which became very popular in that city.

Some time later, Roland could not play for a while, so he has been throwing himself into selling cars and other area businesses. Then, in 1998, he returned to music and created an American band that played rock and jazz with a touch of Latin music.

Roland Cache and the rest of the band
Roland Cache and the rest of Cache Live Music

Creation of Cache Live Music 

Eventually, he left the American band and founded a Latin band called Cache Live Music with a group of musicians, some of whom remain alongside Roland to this day. He met most of them through another musician friend who introduced them so he was knowing other artists who joined his project.

Cache Live Music was officially started in 1999, and according to its founder, the hardest thing about keeping a band like this together for so long was the search of opportunities in clubs and other kinds of places. However, Roland says that his experience as a salesman and negotiator has helped him a lot in winning contracts and the best conditions for him and his bandmates.

Current status of Cache Live Music

Today, the core of the band consists are three of its members: the guitarist, the bassist, and Roland, who is a multi-instrumentalist. More recently, Cache included a flutist, a trombonist, and sometimes a singer. This is how, depending on the requirements for a particular event, the group’s leader decides which members and instruments to include for every occasion in order to offer something different.

Cache at an Amazon event
Cache Live Music at an Amazon corporate event

Regarding the repertoire, they only perform covers, but they ensure that each and every song has their personal touch so that they resemble as little as possible to the original versions.

Anyone who wants to hire Cache Live Music can do so through its profile on The Bash by making a deposit and sending a contract to agree on the conditions of the event. However, it is important to note that they are already booked for December and January with corporate parties and weddings, for which we wish them every possible success because they already have the talent.

Tomas Pedro Regalado and Roland
Former Mayor of Miami Tomas Pedro Regalado and Roland Cache

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Creator of Salsa Vida Takeshi Young graced us with his presence in International Salsa Magazine

In International Salsa Magazine, we have always tried to cover all types of Latin music artists, including producers, arrangers, composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and club owners. However, it is also important to talk to other platforms that promote Latin music as we do, so we contacted the creator of the website Salsa Vida, Takeshi Young, to learn a little more about this online media site and everything it has to offer the public.

Takeshi with a painting
Takeshi Young with a painting of Hector Lavoe

Takeshi’s relationship with Latin music

In view of the trouble digital marketing specialist, dance teacher, and competitor Takeshi Young went to create a site like Salsa Vida, we obviously had to ask what relationship he had with Latin music. He replied that he loves to dance and has been doing so for about 19 years. His attendance at various salsa events led him to create a calendar for the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently resides.

The acceptance he had led him to include much more content like articles, events, guides, and much more. The main goal was to show salsa lovers all the places they could go to enjoy this genre, but over time, Salsa Vida was turning into a sort of online newspaper that provided information on many other things related to the same topic, especially dance academies. For its operation, it uses tools like WordPress, iTools, and Chat GPT as an information bank to his writings, most of which are of his authorship.

He used the name “Salsa Vida” because of the lifestyle that he associated with salsa, which he considered to be unifying, nourishing, and joyful.

Greatest challenges in creating Salsa Vida

One of the most annoying parts about creating Salsa Vida was the calendar, as Takeshi always had to keep an eye on updates, date changes, and event cancellations. Fortunately, he always received information from many of the organizers, who told him when there were any changes in their schedules.

Takeshi at the San Francisco SBK Congress
Takeshi Young dancing with the San Jose State Salsa Team at the San Francisco SBK Congress

Salsa Vida’s most important goal today

Takeshi pointed out that, at present, Salsa Vida’s most important goal is to teach and promote salsa around the world, which has led him to write all kinds of articles in which he seeks to educate his community on all kinds of topics related to Latin music, such as “what is pachanga” or “what is cha cha chá.” With this, he wants those interested in learning about dancing or knowing more about this rich world to have a starting point from the theoretical part.

In addition to that, the website still maintains the calendar to help salsa lovers find events related to their passion near their homes. 

Contacts obtained to date

Takeshi claims to have so many contacts with a lot of bands, especially in the Bay Area, which has helped him keep on growing his website. However, the people he interacts with most in this environment are dancers and instructors who give him a lot of information about their work with their academies and students.

Moreover, his work has also helped him gain invites and press passes to all kinds of events and concerts in both San Francisco and the rest of California, allowing him to cover them and bring the latest updates to his loyal readers.

Takeshi and Alyssa
Takeshi Young and dancer Alyssa Aguilar

Goals with Salsa Vida for the coming months

As for Takeshi and Salsa Vida’s goals for the coming months, the creative young man keeps searching for and publishing events from around the world for his readers to see, as well as highlighting the importance of expanding and publishing even more countries in his calendar so that many more salsa fans from other latitudes can use Salsa Vida to find what they want.

Today, the Salsa Vida calendar has events in about 80 countries, but Takeshi says it is not enough and wants to expand much more to other locations. He also wants to add more languages to make visitors to his page feel more comfortable, and new sections such as “Dancepedia” that would come to be a kind of Wikipedia, but focused on dance.

And if that were not enough, he wants to design an app through which those interested can use the same functions of the site in a much more comfortable and interactive way from any mobile device.

Takeshi’s other occupations

As well as handling Salsa Vida, Takeshi is also a digital marketing specialist and teaches salsa at San Jose State University twice a week.

Importantly, he has a BA in philosophy and a BS in software engineering, both from the aforementioned university. During those years, he was also a member of his class’s salsa and mambo clubs. 

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Salsa Latin Bar London

Europe / England / London

All the sound and flavors (not only food) in one incredible place! Salsa is a South American bar/restaurant/nightclub. The food menu is a delicious selection of Latin infused dishes with something to suit everyone and our cocktail menu has a fantastic selection of classic and specialty cocktails. It is available for private hire everyday of the week and we can arrange food, drink and entertainment packages specific to your party needs including DJs, the best Salsa music, dancers and more!

Salsa Latin Bar London - Photo1
Salsa Latin Bar London – Photo1

Salsa Latin Bar London Address:

Salsa!, 96 Charing Cross Road, London, London, WC2H 0JG.

Opening Hours Salsa Cafe Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00pm.

Restaurant, Bar and Club Mon-Thu 17.00pm-02.00am Fri-Sat 17.00pm-03.00am Sunday 17.00pm-02.00am

Salsa Latin Bar London - Photo2
Salsa Latin Bar London – Photo2

Paris will party with Le Salsa Club Party – 18th September

Europe / France / Paris

Paris, the city of lights, is known for being a cosmopolitan city. Every month there is a special night where Latin music lovers and musicians have the chance to enjoy a new experience full of good music and dance lessons. LeSalsaClub’Party is the exclusive event where amazing DJ’s and artists of France offer an amazing show of Latin music.

This event is one of the biggest salsa party of Paris. It’s now taking place in the 13th district. This evening is dedicated to salsa dancers. You will meet teachers, international artists and especially on1/on2 social dancers. The atmosphere is non-elitist and open to all.

Paris will party with Le Salsa Club Party
Paris will party with Le Salsa Club Party

The party is on September 18, and we promise you’ll have a great time because of the performance of the amazing DJ SER-J, the ambassador of salsa in Paris. His passion for music has always been a no-brainer, but it is with the salsa that she became ubiquitous. His collection grew quickly from CDs to vinyl. “A new way to listen to, greater harmonic richness, but especially the opportunity to get my hand on yet never digitized albums and therefore very little known.”

The party will be in 10-18 Rue Des Terres Au Curé 75013 Paris

For more information and prices, check the website: http://www.djser-j.com/ You can’t miss the night of your life! Soundcloud DJ Ser- J https://soundcloud.com/djser-j

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