7. Cuban Music
Cuban Orchetra
• Founded in 1980, orchestras
and soloists from Cuba and
other countries get together
to sing and dance in
homage to a legend of
Cuban music,
Cuban Coffee House Music
11. Jon Secada (born Juan Francisco
Secada Martínez;
• October 4, 1961) is a Cuban
American singer and songwri
ter.] Secada was born
in Havana, Cuba, and raised
in Hialeah, Florida. He has
won two Grammy
Awards and sold 20 million
albums since his English-
language debut album in
1992. His music
fuses funk, soul, pop and
Latin percussion. Secada also
has worked as a songwriter
forGloria Estefan, Jennifer
Lopez, Ricky Martin, Mandy
Moore and other performers.
18. CUBAN Cars
• Yank tank or máquina are the words used to
describe the many classic cars (for example:
1957 Chevrolet, 1953 Ford, 1958 Dodge, etc.)
present in Cuba with an estimated 60,000 of
them still driving the roads today
19. Cuban Dance
Cha- Cha
• The cha-cha-cha, or
simply cha-cha, is the name
of a dance of Cuban origin
1952
Danzón
• Danzón is the official
musical genre and dance
of Cuba
20. Cuban Music
Salsa
• elements of Swing
dancing and Hustle, as well
as elements of Afro-Cuban
and Afro-Caribbean dances
The Cuban bolero dance
• The Cuban bolero dance
originated in Santiago de
Cuba in the last quarter of
the 19th century
25. Music
Reggie BOB Marley is definitely a musical
icon of epic proportions who put
reggae music and Jamaican culture .
26. Jamaican Music
Jamaica's leading female musician
Marjorie Whylie epitomises the
preservation of Jamaica's diverse genres of
traditional and contemporary music.
Sean Paul, is a Jamaican rapper,
27. OMI Singer
• Omar Samuel Pasley (born 3
September 1986), better known by
his stage name OMI is a Jamaican
American singer. He is best known
for "Cheerleader", a worldwide hit
for him in a remixed version by
German DJ Felix Jaehn. He is
currently signed to Ultra Music, a
part of Sony Music, and released
his debut album Me 4 U on 16
October 2015. On 25 August 2015,
OMI appeared on Taylor
Swift's 1989 World Tour to
promote his buzz-making single
"Cheerleader".
32. Puerto Rican Beauties
Deborah Fátima Carthy-Deu (born
January 5, 1966 in Santurce, Puerto
Rico is a Puerto Rican actress, host,
and former beauty queen.
Miss Universe 1993 Dayanara
Torres
33. Puerto Rican Beauties
Zuleyka Rivera represented Puerto
Rico in the Miss Universe 2006
Denise Quiñones, Miss Universe
2001
34. Puerto Rican Music
Early music
Although it is customary in some circles to say
that Puerto Rican music is a product of three
cultural influences—Spanish, African, and Taino
Indian
Puerto Rican folk music would comprise
the primarily Hispanic-derived jíbaro
music, the Afro-Puerto Rican bomba
35. Bomba
External audio You may listen to the "Bomba
Puertorriqueña" as performed at the Nuyorican Cafe in
Puerto Rico here
Historical references indicate that by the decades around
1800 plantation slaves were cultivating a music and dance
genre called bomba.
Plena
Around 1900 plena emerged as a humble
proletarian folk genre in the lower-class, largely
Afro-Puerto Rican urban neighborhoods in San
Juan, Ponce, and elsewhere
36. The bolero originally derived from Cuba, but by
the 1920s-30s it was being not only enjoyed but
also composed and performed by Puerto Ricans,
including such outstanding figures as Rafael
Hernández and Pedro Flores.
Guaracha and Salsa
Salsa is another genre whose form derived from
the CubanPuerto Rican melding of genre,
especially Cuban dance music of the 1950s—but
which in the 1960s-70s became an international
genre, cultivated with special zeal and excellence
in Puerto Rico
45. Columbian Music
Traditional Music Cumbia
• A music genre popular
throughout Latin America.
The Cumbia originated in
Colombia's Caribbean
coastal region and Panama
Bambuco .
• An indigenous form of
music with European
influence, sometimes
known as Música del
interior.
49. Colombian Literary Arts
Colombian writer and Nobel
writer Gabriel García Márquez
Jorge Franco is a Colombian novelist who
loved reading this country's most famous
writer
57. Culture of Chile
northern town called La Tirana, which takes place
in July to honor the Virgen del Carmen.
Traditional garb from northern Chile.
Courtship Dance of Chile
64. San Alfonso del Mar resort in Chile,
• This pool holds a record for being the biggest
swimming pool in the world. It is 20 acres wide and
1,000 yards long. World's largest pool which holds
66m gallons is so big you can even sail boats on it
98. Brazilian Samba Music Icon
• Carmen Miranda, GCIH was
a Portuguese Brazilian
samba singer, dancer,
Broadway actress, and film
star who was popular from
the 1930s to the 1950s