Thus, a sort of feedback has luckily existed, and composers and musicians engaged in musical arrangements in the country have taken advantage of it when creating their own interpretations of a contemporary and novel dancing music. Also beyond doubt is its own development and its impact on the work of musicians who in countries like Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela and others, have based their work on Latin dancing rhythms. Nevertheless, the relevance of salsa in the international dissemination of several Caribbean dancing music is beyond doubt. And he added: 'I have always believed that the roots of this type of music are embedded here in Cuba.' This statement affirms what we intend to ratify, since apparently not everybody is clear on this: salsa is not a rhythm in itself, but a name that embraces different musical genres, under a commercial label that succesfully launched a product to the market. a hybrid born of the guaguancó, the rumba, the son montuno, the plena, the bomba and even the merengue. In a brief interview published in the Tropicana International magazine (Nº 5,1997), the extremely popular Puerto Rican singer Andy Montañez stated that salsa is not a rhythm but a mixture, '.
