Gilberto Santa Rosa (aka "El Caballero de la Salsa") is one of the most esteemed and tradition-minded soneros to emerge from the 1980s boom; his popularity and acclaim only increased in subsequent decades. His style of salsa isn't easily categorized, for he often changes his approach from one album to the next. His straight-ahead, dance-oriented albums (1991's Perspectiva and 2004's Autentico) as well as his ecclectic ones (1996's Esencia, 1999' Expresion) tend to be his most critically celebrated.
