timbaIt's Spanish for 'extreme salsa'

By Andrew Moore / The Bulletin
July 1, 2005

As if salsa music weren't already saucy enough, along comes a spicier new variant, timba.

Born on the streets of Havana, timba is the Cuban version of the polyrhythmic salsa music native to the Caribbean. It shares the same Latin jazz roots as salsa, but is much more lively, according to Jorge....

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