The SALSA music started in the 1940s in the Caribbean world, in the Greater Antilles, then developed in North and Central America and is today an enduring worldwide musical and cultural phenomenon.

Guyana did not keep out of its influence since the 1950s - that was the time of vinyl records - with the mambos, guaracha, cha-cha, and others Cuban and PortoRican boleros. At that time, Perez Prado was a star and was widely listened, and Guyanan wind instruments bands, like the bands of this particular style of music, developed rapidly.

The "Amazonian Salsa Festival" has the ambition to be a unique world event, with the participation of the best dancers in the world, and to give a fillip to the department economic, cultural and tourist life.

The President

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