Échale Salsita
The son that may have named the whole genre. Ignacio Piñeiro — the Septeto Nacional's composer, whose 'Avísale a la Vecina' you'll meet elsewhere in this...
Open in the interactive experienceThe son that may have named the whole genre. Ignacio Piñeiro — the Septeto Nacional's composer, whose 'Avísale a la Vecina' you'll meet elsewhere in this collection — cuts 'Échale Salsita' in 1933, its coro urging a street vendor to 'throw a little sauce on it.' Whether or not it truly gave salsa its name, the phrase stuck to the music forever. Antonio Machín's quartet recorded it the same year. Decades on it stays a magnet for reinvention — Paquito D'Rivera's big-band jazz portrait, then Ry Cooder and Manuel Galbán's Grammy-winning Cuban-guitar twang. Sauce, poured across seventy years.
- Composer
- Ignacio Piñeiro
- Year
- 1933
- Lineage
- son