Editing Latin America (section)

===Music and dance===
{{See also|Music of Latin America|Latin pop|Latin dance}}
[[File:Salsa en Cali.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Salsa (dance)|Salsa]] dancing in [[Cali]], [[Colombia]]]]

Latin America has produced many successful worldwide artists in terms of recorded global music sales. Among the most successful have been [[Juan Gabriel]] (Mexico) only Latin American musician to have sold over 200 million records worldwide,<ref>{{cite web|title=Juan Gabriel, superstar Mexican singer, dies at 66|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-juan-gabriel-20160828-snap-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 28, 2016|archive-date=May 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530071725/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-juan-gabriel-20160828-snap-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Gloria Estefan]] (Cuba), [[Carlos Santana]], [[Luis Miguel]] (Mexico) of whom have sold over 90 million records, [[Shakira]] (Colombia) and [[Vicente Fernández]] (Mexico) with over 50 million records sold worldwide. [[Enrique Iglesias]], although not a Latin American, has also contributed for the success of Latin music.

Other notable successful mainstream acts through the years, include [[RBD]], [[Celia Cruz]], [[Soda Stereo]], [[Thalía]], [[Ricky Martin]], [[Maná]], [[Marc Anthony]], [[Ricardo Arjona]], [[Selena]], and [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]].

Latin Caribbean music, such as [[Merengue (music)|merengue]], [[Bachata (music)|bachata]], [[Salsa music|salsa]], and more recently [[reggaeton]], from such countries as the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Panama, has been strongly influenced by African rhythms and melodies.<ref>{{cite web|first=Christopher|last=Washburne|publisher=University of Salsa|title=Clave: The African Roots of Salsa|access-date=May 23, 2006|url=http://www.planetsalsa.com/university_of_salsa/clave/clave_roots.htm|archive-date=May 7, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507215444/http://www.planetsalsa.com/university_of_salsa/clave/clave_roots.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=Caravan Music|title=Guide to Latin Music|url=http://www.caravanmusic.com/GuideLatinMusic.htm|access-date=May 23, 2006|archive-date=May 6, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506015313/http://www.caravanmusic.com/GuideLatinMusic.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Jarabe Tapatío.jpg|thumb|Traditional Mexican dance [[Jarabe Tapatío]]]]
Another well-known Latin American musical genre includes the [[Argentine tango|Argentine]] and [[Uruguayan tango]] (with [[Carlos Gardel]] as the greatest exponent), as well as the distinct [[nuevo tango]], a fusion of tango, [[acoustic music|acoustic]] and [[electronic music]] popularized by [[bandoneón]] virtuoso [[Ástor Piazzolla]]. [[Samba]], North American [[jazz]], [[European classical music]] and [[choro]] combined to form ''[[bossa nova]]'' in Brazil, popularized by guitarist [[João Gilberto]] with singer [[Astrud Gilberto]] and [[jazz piano|pianist]] [[Antonio Carlos Jobim]].

Other influential Latin American sounds include the Antillean [[soca music|soca]] and [[calypso music|calypso]], Dennery segment which is a style of Soca music developed in Saint Lucia in the early 2010s which came from Kuduro music, Zouk influence and Lucian drums alongside lyrics usually sung in French [[Antillean Creole]]  Kwéyòl, Bouyon music is a mixture of Soca, Zouk, and traditional genres native to Dominica which is sung in French [[Antillean Creole]] and is one of the most popular musical genres in Dominica, the Honduran (Garifuna) [[punta]], the Colombian [[cumbia]] and [[vallenato]], the Chilean [[cueca]], the Ecuadorian [[Bolero (Spanish dance)|boleros]], the Haitian compas (konpa) and [[rockoleras]], the Mexican [[ranchera]] and the [[mariachi]], which is the epitome of Mexican soul, the Nicaraguan [[palo de Mayo]], the Peruvian [[marinera]] and [[tondero]], the Uruguayan [[candombe]] and the various styles of music from pre-Columbian traditions that are widespread in the [[Andean]] region.

[[File:Carmen Miranda in That Night in Rio (1941).jpg|thumb|upright|left|Brazilian singer [[Carmen Miranda]] helped popularize [[samba]] internationally.]]

The classical composer [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] (1887–1959) worked on the recording of Native musical traditions within his homeland of Brazil. The traditions of his homeland heavily influenced his classical works.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Leadership Medica|title=Heitor Villa-Lobos|access-date=May 23, 2006|url=http://www.cesil.com/0998/enbass09.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811081605/http://www.cesil.com/0998/enbass09.htm|archive-date=August 11, 2006}}</ref> Also notable is the recent work of the Cuban [[Leo Brouwer]], Uruguayan-American [[Miguel del Águila]], guitar works of the Venezuelan [[Antonio Lauro]] and the Paraguayan [[Agustín Barrios]]. Latin America has also produced world-class classical performers such as the Chilean pianist [[Claudio Arrau]], Brazilian pianist [[Nelson Freire]] and the Argentine pianist and conductor [[Daniel Barenboim]]. Brazilian opera soprano [[Bidu Sayão]], one of Brazil's most famous musicians, was a leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1937 to 1952.

[[File:Tango-Show-Buenos-Aires-01.jpg|thumb|upright|A couple dances [[Tango (dance)|tango]].]]

Arguably, the main contribution to music entered through folklore, where the true soul of the Latin American and Caribbean countries is expressed. Musicians such as [[Yma Súmac]], [[Chabuca Granda]], [[Atahualpa Yupanqui]], [[Violeta Parra]], [[Víctor Jara]], [[Jorge Cafrune]], [[Facundo Cabral]], [[Mercedes Sosa]], [[Jorge Negrete]], [[Luiz Gonzaga]], [[Caetano Veloso]], [[Susana Baca]], [[Chavela Vargas]], [[Simon Diaz]], [[Julio Jaramillo]], [[Toto la Momposina]], [[Gilberto Gil]], [[Maria Bethânia]], [[Nana Caymmi]], [[Nara Leão]], [[Gal Costa]], [[Ney Matogrosso]] as well as musical ensembles such as [[Inti Illimani]] and [[Los Kjarkas]] are magnificent examples of the heights that this soul can reach.

[[Latin pop]], including many forms of rock, is popular in Latin America today (see [[Spanish language rock and roll]]).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Michigan Daily|title=Latin music returns to America with wave of new pop starlets|url=http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-28-99/arts/arts6.html|access-date=May 23, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050830190254/http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-28-99/arts/arts6.html|archive-date=August 30, 2005}}</ref> A few examples are [[Café Tacuba]], [[Soda Stereo]], [[Maná]], [[Los Fabulosos Cadillacs]], [[Rita Lee]], [[Mutantes]], [[Secos e Molhados]] [[Legião Urbana]], [[Titãs]], [[Paralamas do Sucesso]], [[Cazuza]], [[Barão Vermelho]], [[Skank (band)|Skank]], [[Miranda!]], [[CSS (band)|Cansei de Ser Sexy or CSS]], and Bajo Fondo.

More recently, reggaeton, which blends Jamaican reggae and dancehall with Latin America genres such as [[Bomba (Puerto Rico)|bomba]] and [[plena]], as well as [[hip hop music|hip hop]], is becoming more popular, in spite of the controversy surrounding its lyrics, dance steps ([[Perreo]]) and music videos. It has become very popular among populations with a "migrant culture" influence – both Latino populations in the United States, such as southern Florida and New York City, and parts of Latin America where migration to the United States is common, such as Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Mexico.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Daddy Yankee leads the reggaeton charge|access-date=May 23, 2006|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/daddy-yankee-leads-reggaeton-charge-wbna9410287|archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525114307/http://www.today.com/popculture/daddy-yankee-leads-reggaeton-charge-wbna9410287|url-status=live}}</ref>