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Over the last year, salsa music has enjoyed a bit of a renaissance<\/a> \u2014 thanks in part to the success of Bad Bunny\u2019s universally acclaimed album \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/a>,\u201d which featured the salsa fusion hits \u201cBaile Inolvidable\u201d and \u201cNuevayol.\u201d<\/p>\n The latter of those two tracks served as a nod to the original hub of the salsa genre in the mainland U.S. Debuting on May 26, a new Futuro Media podcast series titled \u201cOur Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York<\/a>,\u201d will chronicle how the musical styling moved from the Caribbean to the Big Apple and took on a distinctive shape and sound. <\/p>\n The program kicks off at the rise of Fania Records<\/a> \u2014 known as the Motown of salsa \u2014 in 1964 and how it turned into the music label that signed legendary artists such as Celia Cruz<\/a>, Willie Col\u00f3n<\/a>, H\u00e9ctor LaVoe<\/a>, Rub\u00e9n Blades<\/a>, Tito Puente<\/a> and Eddie Palmieri<\/a>. <\/p>\n Narrated by prominent Nuyorican actor\/dancer Rosie Perez<\/a>, the series will also delve into the socio-cultural aspects of the genre\u2019s surge in New York and promises rare interviews with some of the surviving initiators of the movement. Additionally, the show will connect the past to the present and show how the genre made the meteoric rise to the Super Bowl stage<\/a> with Bad Bunny and dominated the charts with popular contemporary acts such as Karol G, Rauw Alejandro and Nathy Peluso. <\/p>\n