{"id":2516264,"date":"2026-07-24T22:28:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2516264"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:28:04","slug":"our-thing-new-podcast-series-documents-the-birth-of-salsa-music-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/our-thing-new-podcast-series-documents-the-birth-of-salsa-music-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our Thing&#8217;: New podcast series documents the birth of salsa music in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 1960s and 1970s New York City, the soundtrack of the streets in East Harlem, the South Bronx and beyond was salsa music. The label that made that possible was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fania.com\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">Fania Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nA new, eight-part documentary podcast tells the story of the scrappy record company that brought salsa to the world.<\/p>\n<p><i>Here &amp; Now<\/i>\u2018s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with <b>Jeanne Montalvo<\/b>, creator and producer of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/futurostudios.org\/podcasts\/our-thing\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York<\/a>\u201d and Oscar-nominated actress and Brooklyn native <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001609\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Rosie Perez<\/b><\/a>, who narrates the series.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/07\/24\/salsa-music-new-york\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '3927319740668442',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wunc.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960s and 1970s New York City, the soundtrack of the streets in East Harlem, the South Bronx and beyond was salsa music. 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