Cultural roots of enormous depth connect New' Orleans and Latin music.

As a result, the popularity of the genre in the Crescent City is no isolated phenomenon. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written what locals have always known: New Orleans is the "northern-most point of the Caribbean." Indeed, the first commercial routes to this continent passed from Western Africa through Hispaniola and Havana, and finally disembarked in the Crescent City. With the merchandise ...