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Salsa is a very popular dance form in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. The word is the same as the Spanish word salsa meaning sauce, or in this case flavour or style. According to testimonials from musicologists and history of music scholars, the name Salsa was gradually accepted among dancers throughout various decades.

The very first time the word appeared on the radio was a composition by Ignacio Piñeiro, dedicated to an old African man who sold butifarras (a sausage-like product) in Central Road in Matanzas.

It is a Son titled Échale salsita. Wherein the major refrain and chorus goes: Salsaaaaa! échale salsita, échale salsita. During the early 1950s, commentator and DJ "bigote" Escalona announced danceables with the title: "the following rhythm contains Salsa. /P>

Finally, the Spanish-speaking population of the New York area babtized Celia Cruz as the Queen of Salsa.

Salsa is danced on music with a recurring eight-beat pattern, i.e. two bars of four beats. Salsa patterns typically use three steps during each four beats, one beat being skipped. However, this skipped beat is often marked by a tap, a kick, a flick, etc. Typically the music involves complicated percussion rhythms and is fast with around 180 beats per minute (see salsa music for more).