Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York (hosted by Rosie Perez)

Suave

Futuro Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 39 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.

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0:00.0	Hello, dear Suave listener. We're coming into your feed to bring you something special.
0:05.9	Futuro Studios has been working on a brand new podcast. It's called Our Thing,
0:10.6	The Birth of Salsa in New York. It's a show about the legends and the label that defined
0:17.0	salsa. That would be Fania Records. And wait until you hear who is hosting our new podcast. I'm so
0:24.7	proud of this show and I think you're going to love it. So here's the first episode of Our Thing,
0:29.6	the birth of salsa in New York. If you like it, you can follow the show on the link in this
0:35.1	episode's show notes. And here's your host, the one and only,
0:39.4	Rosie Perez. Before we get started, I want to let you know that you can listen to the entire
0:46.6	season of Our Thing, The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York right now, ad-free, plus exclusive episodes on Futuro Plus.
0:58.2	Our Thing, the birth of salsa in Nueva York, was made possible by the Mellon Foundation,
1:03.3	which seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking,
1:10.2	where ideas and imagination can thrive.
1:13.6	Heads up. This episode contains some explicit language.
1:21.6	There's a pretty legendary concert from 1973.
1:30.3	A concert that the day after it happened, everyone was sitting on our stoop in Brooklyn talking about it.
1:38.3	People still talk about it to this day.
1:42.3	It was at a venue you had to have Cojones to think you could play.
1:50.0	The Yankee Stadium at that time could hold 55,000 as I remember.
1:54.0	Yankee Stadium.
1:58.0	Initially, this concert was supposed to attract a modest crowd. I said, how many people you expect?
2:04.5	He said, yeah, we'll get 8,000 people. Everybody's so crazy for doing Yankee Stadium.
2:12.1	Crazy because who the hell reserves a 50,000 seat of venue for 8,000 people?
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