Salsa star heats up Bimbo's

Cuban salsa star Issac Delgado is headed to Bimbo's 365 Club on Friday for back-to-back dance parties as part of the SFJazz Spring Season. Delgado pioneered the timba style, which he calls "harmonized rumba."

Hailing from the heartland of Salsa music, Colombia's newest vocalist Yorleny is causing a stir with her first hit single "Me Haces Sentir." With the help of some of music's leading producers, Yorleny melds her distinct vocals with classic Salsa beats for a rhythmic sounds that's all her own.

At 36, Maria Finn was starting that new, hopeful stage in life that comes with marriage and the promise of family. Less than two years later, her husband cheated on her.

Strange how life, in an instant, can drop out from under you. Finn’s marriage ended, but she has a powerful comeback story and her vehicle of transformation was a surprise: tango. She has written a memoir of the experience, “Hold Me Tight & Tango Me Home.”

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His is a name that is synonymous with the word ‘salsa’ throughout India. One among the pioneers of Latin American dances and culture in the subcontinent, Lourd Vijay has brought home numerous accolades and his repertoire keeps growing by the day.

THURSDAY 4

SALSA: Frankie Vázquez and the Bronx Horns at Latin Tinge Thursdays, Brooklyn Crossroads Supper Club, 402 Third Ave. at Sixth St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, 6 p.m.; $10; women free until 8 p.m.

MIX: Brooklyn band Chicha Libre plays to Charlie Chaplin’s “Pay Day” and “The Idle Class” and guitarist Gyan Riley to shorts from Harry Smith’s “Early Abstractions,” 8 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th St., $40-$45. Part of the New York Guitar Festival.

SATURDAY 6

SALSA: Dominican singers José Alberto (El Canario) and Raúl Rosendo and Puerto Ricans Nino Segarra and Paquito Guzmán at “Back to the the ’80s” concert, Lehman Center, 8 p.m., $35-$50.

FUND-RAISER: New York Latin bands Zon del Barrio (salsa), Alma Moyo (bomba), Bryan Vargas & Ya Está (Afro-Latin soul) and Vaya (funk), along with the collective Welfare Poets and the dance groups Kalunga Neg Mawon and Paleros Dominicanos de Nueva York! come together for Caribe Negro for Haiti! — a fund-raising event — at Bruckner Bar & Grill, 1 Bruckner Blvd., Bronx, 7 p.m.-3 a.m. (Dance classes from 7 p.m.-9 p.m.). $15-$20.

KIDS: Hot Peas ’N Butter, a children’s musical group that mixes traditional Latin music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz, folk and rock, at Queens Theater in the Park, 1 p.m. Also Feb. 7, 2 p.m., $12.

KIDS: Dan Zanes and Friends perform songs in both English and Spanish with tap dancer Derick K. Grant, buzuq player Tareq Abboushi, the Brooklyn Symphony Youth Orchestra and the BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, at BAM Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., $15-$25.

KIDS: “La Cucarachita Martina/Martina, the Little Roach,” a bilingual Latin rock ’n’ roll musical based on the children’s tale, at Teatro Sea @ Los Kabayitos Puppet & Children’s Theatre, 107 Suffolk St., 3 p.m., $12.50-$15. Also Feb. 13.

SUNDAY 7

EXHIBIT: Opening reception for Dominican visual artist Demostina’s show “Tuning In” at El Rio Gallery, 10 Fort Washington Ave., at 160 St., 4 to 7 p.m., featuring performance by flamenco singer and dancer Sol La Argentinita and guitar player Cristian Puig. Free.

TUESDAY 9

TV: “P-Star Rising,” a documentary about Priscilla (P-Star) Diaz, a New York kid rapper who struggles to make a name for herself hoping that in the process she will lift her family out of poverty, airs on PBS, 10 p.m.

TANGO: Pianist Emilio Solla & the Tango Jazz Insiders at Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th St., 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. shows, $20.

A salsa dance will be held Saturday Feb. 6 at Cornell's Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. Intro salsa lesson by Felipe Rivera will be from 8-9 p.m. with dancing from 9 p.m. to midnight. There will also be a performance by Sabor Latino. A donation of $5 students and $10 non-students will go to UNICEF/Haiti. Admission includes food and non-alcoholic beverages. Free private dance lessons by Dance Hosts will be available all night.

For more information go to www.salsalibre.org

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Luis Enrique has won the Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards for his 'Ciclos' record. The Nicaraguan born singer and composer started his career in the late 1980s and achieved success in the 1990s earning the title "El Principe de la Salsa (The Prince of Salsa). As one the leading pioneers of the romantic salsa movement, 'Ciclos' represents his biggest breakthrough in over a decade.

Nominees in the top Grammy categories picked up early awards in their respective genres Sunday during the awards pre-telecast from Los Angeles' Staples Center.

If this week's feature story made you want to shake your tail feather, there are weekly salsa nights hosted by several venues in Kansas City.