Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York (hosted by Rosie Perez)
La Brega: Campeones
Futuro Media
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 40 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, hello. I'm here to share something special with you today. If you're a long-time |
| 0:05.2 | Labrega listener, you know that we have a whole season, season two, about the extraordinary |
| 0:11.2 | contributions Puerto Rico has made to music. We punch way above our weight. And a big part of that |
| 0:19.2 | story is the story of salsa. Futuro Studios has been working on a brand new podcast all about the legends and the label that defined salsa, Fania Records. It's called Our Thing, the birth of salsa in New York. And it's hosted by the one and only New Yorkerican legend, Rosie Perez. |
| 0:39.9 | So here is the first episode of Our Thing, the birth of salsa in New York. And if you like it, |
| 0:46.4 | and I think you will, you can follow the show through the link in this episode's show notes. |
| 0:52.7 | Before we get started, I want to let you know that you can listen to the entire season |
| 0:58.0 | of Our Thing, The Birth of Salsa in Nueva, York right now, ad-free, plus exclusive episodes |
| 1:06.0 | on Futuro Plus. |
| 1:09.0 | Our Thing, the birth of salsa in Nueva York, was made possible by the Mellon Foundation, |
| 1:14.5 | which seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, |
| 1:20.9 | where ideas and imagination can thrive. |
| 1:24.7 | Heads up. |
| 1:25.5 | This episode contains some explicit language. |
| 1:36.3 | There's a pretty legendary concert from 1973. |
| 1:42.3 | A concert that the day after it happened, everyone was sitting on our stoop in Brooklyn |
| 1:48.6 | talking about it. People still talk about it to this day. |
| 1:56.6 | It was at a venue you had to have Kohones to think you could play. |
| 2:01.1 | Yankee Stadium at that time could hold 55,000 as I remember. |
| 2:07.0 | Yankee Stadium. |
| 2:09.3 | Initially, this concert was supposed to attract a modest crowd. |
| 2:13.3 | I said, how many people you expect? |
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