Fania Takes Nueva York | From Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The 1960s brings social and political change to the world and to New York City, where a young Johnny Pacheco keeps people dancing with his orchestra and charanga music. The Dominican musician is also going through a divorce and his lawyer, Jerry Masucci, happens to be a fan of Johnny’s music. The two form a music partnership that will forever change music. They call their music label Fania Records.

Hosted by Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress and Brooklyn native Rosie Perez and produced by Pulitzer Prize-winning Futuro Media. “Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York,” is the most comprehensive audio narrative yet made about the birth and wild heights of salsa, a genre that continues to shape global culture today.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.2	Hey, everybody.
0:06.1	It's me, Debbie Kamal.
0:07.4	This season on my podcast, who's with me, I speak with actor, rapper, producer, David Diggs.
0:14.0	What doesn't he do?
0:15.0	The jump off for me was Hamilton, and it was the most popular thing in a very long time.
0:21.2	But it was still, for me, it was me and my friends making something dumb.
0:25.0	I'm a relatively shy person.
0:26.7	Play a lot of boisterous characters.
0:28.0	I'm really that way in life.
0:30.0	Listen to Who's With Me with Me with Demi Kmart Bell, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.2	Pushkin.
0:49.0	Our thing, the birth of salsa in Nueva York was made possible by the Mellon Foundation, which seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking,
0:55.8	where ideas and imagination can thrive.
0:59.6	Heads up.
1:00.4	This episode contains some explicit language.
1:16.1	There's a pretty legendary concert from 1973.
1:20.1	A concert that the day after it happened,
1:24.4	everyone was sitting on our stoop in Brooklyn talking about it.
1:28.3	People still talk about it to this day. It was at a venue you had to have Cojones to think you could play.
1:35.3	The Yankee Stadium at that time could hold 55,000 as I remember.
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