The
New Beginning...Siguiendo La Tradicion!
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2008
Honorees!
THE
DAVID MELENDEZ RECOGNITION AWARD GOES TO
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 As a young man, Carlos Vasquez understood
the importance of maintaining one's
cultural roots and passing along this
beauty to future generations. Living
in Brooklyn, Carlos witnessed the gradual
loss of certain Latino experiences
in our youths through the assimilation
of mainstream American Culture.
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Throughout the years, Carlos actively
participated in various programs that
kept the Latino culture alive in his
community. In 1982, his dream became
reality. La Salsa De Hoy, Inc. was
founded in Sunset Park, Brooklyn as
a bilingual, bi-cultural program. It
provides dance instructions to children
and adults between the ages of six
and above. The program furnishes its
participants with the basic understanding
of the historical and cultural evolution
of Latin music. The school teaches
dance such as Salsa/Mambo, Cha, Cha,
Cha and Hip Hop to neighborhood children.
Students have gone on to dance at various
events throughout the city. |
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 Since
1983, Vicki Sola has provided the
New York-New Jersey Latino community
with quality salsa and Latin jazz
produced by a singular mix of famous
performers, plus artists rarely heard
on more commercial stations. On her
Saturday afternoon program QUE VIVA
LA MUSICA, She also presents live
interviews with musicians, writers,
and other individuals active in the
arts.
Sola is also an author, and has been writing about music and
the arts since the eighties. Her work has appeared in various
respected trade periodicals of local & international circulations.
Her articles have been published in Impacto magazine and Que
Pasa. Since October 1998, Sola has covered the New York Metropolitan
Latin Music Scene for the Internationally Circulated Latin Beat
Magazine, writing the two-page monthly column " A bite from the
apple", listing New York City's top 20 hit parades, and contributing
feature articles. Sola, who majored in english and communications
at Fairleigh Dickinson University, also served as New York columnist
for the Internationally Circulated Latin London Magazine. Since
1996, she has been a contributing editor and columnist for the
Newsletter and Catalog Descarga, a bible of Latin music which
features industry news, plus listings of most of the CDs, videos
and books ever produced in the field
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