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You may have noticed it…. I like music as well as dancing and I’ve found this youtube video by the rejected1. It’s his list of top 20 Cha Cha songs as of 2009 and has pretty good songs in it. I recognize a lot of these songs from videos of recent competitions. [...]

These are some of my favorite Rumba songs.
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I’d like to put some more cha cha songs today. My first post about cha cha music had songs by different artists. Today, I’d like to introduce 2 artists I like. The first one is Mendez, or DJ Mendez. He is a Chilean native and an active DJ [...]

So far, I’ve had 2 posts about rumba music.  Now it’s time for music for cha cha.  Some are a bit fast to dance to, so you may want to slow it down using some tools (see ).

Lady Marmalade (Album Version) by Patti Labelle
This song is slow, so I use this song a lot to [...]

Here is another batch of my favorite rumba music. Enjoy!

The Look of Love by Dianao Krall. (Mp3 download available from Amazon.com.

Woman in Love by Barbra Streisand. (Mp3 download available from
Amazon.com.)

Piramides de Amore by The Tripletts. (In “Brazil”)

Perfidia by John Altman. (Available from
Amazon.com)

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From time to time, I like to edit the music so I can practice better.  Most of the time, it means I want to slow down the tempo/pitch of a particular song.  There are many choices available as you can find out by doing a goole search for “sound editor.”  The top search result is [...]

Here is the list of tempo for each dance (American style and International style) as specified by NDCA.
 
International Style

Cha Cha   — 31 MPM (124 BPM)
Samba     — 48-50 MPM (96-100 BPM) — 2 beats per measure
Rumba    — 27 MPM (108 BPM)
Paso Doble –60-62 MPM (120-124 BPM) — 2 beats per measure
Jive         — 38-44 MPM (152-176 BPM)

American Style

Cha [...]