Cha-Cha-Cha – was created by the Cuban violinist and conductor Enrique Jorrin in 1948, the result of his experiments with form, melody and rhythm of the danzon. Dance is incorporated into the newest form of Latin dance. Shortly after the Mambo was introduced in the dance halls, was the cha-cha-cha, which began to gain increasing popularity. This rapid and wide distribution is due mainly to being a dance intermediate, not too slow nor too fast, making it a genre easily danceable by all (as opposed, for example, in Mambo, where the music faster pace and more complicated). Read the rest of this entry »