Rumba Quotes

I'm a big salsa fan!

I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it now, but the very first sport that I did, if you can call it sport, was ballroom dancing. I was aged seven to nine or 10.

I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

I missed out on the crash course that everyone else gets on 'Strictly' on every dance form.

The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

Cachao is obviously Cuban. He's known for traditional Cuban music and that's the music that I'm most passionate about. Cachao is one of the greatest innovators and visionaries. At the base of the tree, the roots, there is Cachao. So I was blessed to have had that time to learn from him and to give him an opportunity and a space where he can create. Everybody always wants to play with Cachao, because he's the guy.

Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.

You have to have chemistry - it's acting. I need to make people believe the rumba is about two people in love, and the tango is about passion.