Poncho Sanchez Quotes (6 Quotes)

I started laughing and said 'Guys, I think (Latin jazz) is over the hump,'

My brothers and sisters got into mambo and cha-cha-cha music that they played on the radio, ... Back then there was only one station in L.A. that would play it. The disc jockey was Chico Cesno who would play what he called 'musica Cubana' or 'musica Latina.'

I've been doing this since way before the music became popular.

I looked around and thought 'Man, I don't know about this'

I had great parents and there was music in our house every day and my parents danced.

It really started getting played in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s with Latin dances like the mambo, cha-cha-cha, samba, and bossa nova. Today, we have the salsa and meringue.