Los Van Van - Dancing Wet (Bailando Mojao)

Because of an embargo imposed by the U.S. government, very little of the Cuban-rooted music enjoyed by predominantly Latino audienes in the U.S. is actually recorded in Cuba. Most of the salsa hits heard in the U.S. are recorded in New York, San Juan or Miami. It isn't that there's ever been a shortage of high-quality salsa artists in Cuba, where such styles as son, mambo and cha-cha were born; it's that their albums don't make it to American shores. Hands down, Cuba's most successful salsa band of the 1980s and '90s has been Los Van Van. Read More