No Se Porque by Ana Belen and Antonio Banderas - everyone loves dancing to that song - it's steamy!

Bryan Adams and Barbara Streisand "I Finally Found Someone" or Gloria Estefan and NSync "Music of My Heart"
Michael Buble "Wonderful Tonight" These are a few of my favs.

There is a rumba that is so hot. I have no idea who sings it or what the name of it is. It's a woman with a super sultry voice. I want to say some of the song is in Spanish and some is in English. She does a lot of talking. Oh, I wish I knew the name of it. It's the hottest I have seen!

can you use One republic's apologize? I keep seeing it on youtube but I never could fnd the rumba beat to that

I think Apologize is more suited to an International rather than an American rumba.

Tina Arena - "I'm in Chains" Very hot and very easy beat to pick up on!

As usual, a lot of replies with music that has NOTHING to do with Rumba... you might as well dance a Foxtrot !

The whole point of the dance is the Latin musics sensuality, and the instruments used in the orchestration ... there are literally thousands of Rumba/ Boleros from which to choose .

I believe that ballroom isn't static and when we box ourselves in to doing it as it has always been done than we run the risk of losing our potential for growth or change.

If we can not dance to anything except those songs that are specificaly dedicated to the genre than ballroom on the whole becomes isolated, removed from the whole of society.

I agree in traditional competition that it makes sense to keep to the proper musical genre. A showcase or general dancing should allow for innovations and improvements. They won't always be better, but sometimes they will be.

We need innovation and change, otherwise we become stale and we will be lost to antiquity just like anything else that can't transform to meet the spirit of the time.

I am not talking about change for the sake of change, but what about innovations for the sake of improvement?

I think you missed the point....

Latin music, without Clave, becomes 4/4 timing.. nothing more, nothing less.
latin dances are predicated on a basic musical concept.

Eliminating Clave, would be akin to changing Waltz to 4/4 ... in addition, the polyrhythmic orchestration, is an integral part of the musical interpretation to which we should dance ,and is totally absent in " Pop" style music..

What one demonstrates to the public ( we already have this problem ) by "Prof. " to music that is incorrect for the genre, is mis leading and dis ingenuous .

One can still take a "Pop" song, and write the authentic musical accompaniment, but its usually cost prohibitive ( other that the " standards " that already exist )

Okay...in which point I can't disagree with you. If its clave that makes the rumba...than clave there must be.

I still have a concern when it comes to dancing in general places. I want to be able to take a dance that I know has the correct beat and illustrate that more can be done with it than just the basic shuffling in place people have come to decide is dancing. Where is the cutoff? I'm truly and honestly asking your opinion. There is no other intention.

How pure should ballroom be?

Thank you Terence