"La Salsa Vive" is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Antillean music's history, tracing its roots from New York's | dG1fZjg2dWo3QlhkS2s
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00:00I'm going to show you a little bit of the history of the salsa, and then I'm going to
00:26show you a little bit of the history of the salsa.
00:27People forgot about the Mambo, they forgot about it.
00:31And it was over.
00:35While things were falling apart in New York,
00:40Cali was still going strong.
00:50The world is coming here because they like our style.
00:55There are three things in Cali that have kept the salsa alive.
01:03The dancers.
01:08The dancers.
01:10And our orchestras.
01:14After 1981, I think we took the flag.
01:25I remember the fear that was felt from the outside,
01:29especially in the 80s and 90s.
01:32And Colombia's courage to face that difficulty.
01:42You don't need the presence of the drug traffickers,
01:45and then it's all over the city.
01:48Here in Cali, which is already famous as the capital of salsa,
01:52I think it's true.
02:03Salsa will always be number one.
02:05Salsa will always be number one.
02:17Let it not be the last rumba,
02:19let it always be our rumba and our culture.