La India

Her highly emotional approach to Latin music has led to La India’s being nicknamed "La Princesa de la Salsa" (The Princess of Salsa). She was born Linda Viera Caballero, a Puerto Rican who grew up in the New York Bronx. Her 1994 album "Dicen que soy" stayed on the Latin charts for many months.

Although her album debut in 1989, "Breaking Night" was mainly dance pop with influences of hip hop, La India’s following productions put more emphasis on her Latin roots. As she put it in an interview, "they wanted me to be white, and that is not who I am, I don’t want to be the next Madonna. I want to be me".

La India has collaborated with many of the most important musicians of Latin music. In 1991 she toured with Eddie Palmieri. Palmieri produced and wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on her 1992 album "Llegó La India". Her 1996 album, "Jazzing", included both her love for Latin music and her fondness for pop ballads such as the memorable versions of classics such as "Fever", "Love for sale", "Going out of Orchestra", under trombonist Grover Mitchell’s direction.

La India’s most commercially successful Latin album, "Dicen que soy", was produced by Sergio George, who had previously produced albums for Orquesta de la Luz and who had created a duet with Latin vocalist La India in "Vivir lo nuestro", a mega mix, released in 1996, with songs by La India remixed by the duet Masters at Work, "Little" Louis Vega (her husband) and Kenny "Dope" González. La India’s 1997 album, "Sobre el fuego", which includes a duet with Latin singer Celia Cruz called "La Voz de la experiencia". In 1999 the album "Sola" was released.

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