With its singer-actor quartet, this salsa band is like whirlwind that sweeps up everything in its path. The Montreal-based group just about set the dancefloor alight during the Syli d’Or final, with its unique way of blending humour with the salsa vibe. Its spicy delivery gets the audience freely mingling, rubbing shoulders and feet the person next to them in colourful dance moves. It’s the hallmark of this formidable band, created in the midst of the pandemic, demonstrating their mastery of this Latin style of song and dance. A triumph during a time of global disarray.

The thread of tradition connects the Tribu members, with its roots in “salsa brava.” Not the spicy sauce that the Spanish like to drizzle over potatoes, but the musical style created in the late 1960s by the Latin American diaspora in New York, the springboard for all salsa, dura y pura. From those same origin and through a marriage of brass, piano and percussion, Tribu Salsa Band brings its salsa to life right before our eyes!  From atop the stage, the magnetism of these ambassadors of the Afro-Latin sound is enough to make salsa lovers blush with pleasure, and surely would have put a smile on the legendary Dominican “King of Salsa,” Johnny Pacheco.