By the 1970s, salsa music — the “New Yorican” transformation of Cuban popular dance music — quickly expanded to four principal cities: New York; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Caracas, Venezuela; and Cali, Colombia, the last sometimes self-promoted as the “salsa music capital.” Some of the biggest names in salsa — Joe Arroyo, Fruko sus Tesos, and La Sonora Carruseles — have come from Colombia and orchestras continue to flourish there.