Aurora Flores

New York City bandleader

  1. We didn't reject our parents' music. We respected the Puerto Rican music, the Cuban music. But then we mixed it up with our influences, with jazz, with rock, with what was going on with English. And we called it salsa.
    Aurora Flores · Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond · Fania Takes Nueva York | From Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York · 2026-06-11
  2. He's not singing about the farm. He's not singing about the chicken and the rooster. He's singing about the projects. He's singing about riots. He's singing about us.
    Aurora Flores · Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond · Fania Takes Nueva York | From Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York · 2026-06-11
  3. We didn't reject our parents' music. We mixed it up with jazz, rock, English. And we called it salsa.
    Aurora Flores · Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond · Fania Takes Nueva York | From Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York · 2026-06-11