Salsa romántica
The style sprang from a single album, Noches Calientes, created in 1984 by Fania producer Luis Ramirez.[1]: 102 Young salseros such as Lalo Rodriguez and the Puerto Rican Eddie Santiago were creating salsa with frothy songs and suggestive lyrics.Critics of salsa romántica, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s, called it a "commercialized, watered-down" form of Latin pop,[7] in which formulaic, sentimental love ballads were simply put to an Afro-Cuban beat.[8] Jerry Rivera was the first salsero to go triple platinum with his record Cuenta Conmigo (Count on Me), which was all salsa romántica.[9] La India, Luis Enrique, Giro Lopez, Marc Anthony, and Víctor Manuelle are some of the best-known performers of salsa romántica.