By the 1950s, Latin music had become big business, so it’s no surprise the cowbell was perfected and mass-produced right here in the Bronx, by a Puerto Rican auto mechanic named Calixto Rivera ...

From salsa to cumbia to reggaetón, an undeniable Africanía drives these genres. And it's just as much a part of our music's DNA as the language we sing it in.