#Music Scene

Nestled in the heart of Cardiff, Spillers Records isn’t just a shop—it’s a monument to music history. Established in 1894 by Henry Spiller, a keen enthusiast of the emerging music industry, the shop was originally set up in Queens Arcade as a place to sell phonographs, wax cylinders, and shellac discs—the very earliest forms of recorded sound.

In the heart of New York City, during the early 1960s, Latin music was undergoing a massive transformation. The immigrants who had brought their Afro-Cuban rhythms, Puerto Rican bomba y plena, and Dominican merengue to the bustling barrios of Spanish Harlem were hungry for a sound that reflected their experiences, struggles, and triumphs.