Rubén Blades and Tego Calderón walk into a studio — the clave rhythm drops, and your hips move themselves.
Musical documentary film about the similarities between two types of music genres known as Salsa and Reggaeton. The clave is the five-note two-bar rhythm pattern which generates rhythmic measurement and is the foundation and backbone of Salsa and all Afro-Cuban based music.
Score
The clave itself — deceptively simple, infinitely infectious.
Direction
Sosa lets legends talk, then lets the music do the real explaining.
Director
Mariella Sosa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2008 release coincided with reggaeton's global explosion, making this a timely defense of its legitimacy against salsa purists.
Rubén Blades was Panama's Minister of Tourism 2004-2009 — he filmed this between government meetings.
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