What is Latin house?
{{Infobox Music genre | name = Latin house |bgcolor = silver |color = black | stylistic_origins = {{flatlist| * [[Latin music|Latin]] * [[House music|house]] * [[Dance music|dance]] * [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] }} | Alternative name = | cultural_origins = [[New York City]] and [[Chicago]] Late 1980s | instruments = [[Sampler (musical instrument)|Sampler]], [[drum machine]], [[synthesizer]], [[Music sequencer|sequencer]], [[percussion]] | popularity = [[Latin America]] | derivatives = | subgenrelist = | subgenres = | fusiongenres = | regional_scenes = }} '''Latin house''' is a kind of [[dance music]]. It mixes together [[house music]] with [[Latin music]] like that of [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Mexico|Mexican]], [[Brazil]]ian, [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]], [[Cuba]]n, [[Dominican Republic|Dominican]] and [[Colombia]]n origins. It started in the late 1980s in places like [[New York City]] and [[Chicago]].<ref name=Stavans336.337>''Latin Music: Musicians, Genres, and Themes'', ed. Ilan Stavans (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2014), pp. 336–337</ref> It mixed together [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] dance music with the sounds of [[Salsa]], [[Latin jazz]] and [[Brazil|Brazilian]] [[Beat (acoustics)|beats]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.di.fm/latinhouse/ |title=Latin HOuse |publisher=DI, Digitally Imported, Inc. |access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref> [[Disc jockey|DJ]] groups like [[Raze (house-music group)|Raze]] began making house music with [[Spanish language|Spanish]] [[lyrics]]. [[Nervous Records (US)|Nervous Records]], an underground house music and [[hip hop]] [[record label]], produced a number of Latin house releases by different [[Musician|artist]]s.<ref name=Stavans336.337/> As it grew in [[wikt:popular|popular]]ity it began to be recognized as a [[genre]]. == References == {{commons}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Music genres]] [[Category:Latin music]] [[Category:Dance music]] {{music-stub}}