The Cuban cha-cha rhythm is established in the 50s by the flutist, composer and conductor Enrique Jorrín.

The move is based on 4 times, as its music develops into a compass out of 2x4 and danced with two slow movements and 3 quick ones.
Quickly it became a popular dance hall and its name is onomatopoeic reproduction of the steps to dance.
 

History

Chachacha like all the really popular genre was not born from nothing. It originated as a process of evolution and experimentation of Enrique Jorrín with Danzon. During his youth, all the music that Jorrín composed was Danzon, respecting the original musical own genre, but slowly, small changes would be allowed to increasingly get closer to chachacha.

In the mid-twentieth century Enrique Jorrín being the director of the American Orchestra, announced "The trick" in 1948, a song with a new kind of melody, born from his experiments with Danzon. The change consisted of a trio of singers chanting in unison the theme of the composition (the classic Danzon is only instrumental) and giving a tone so characteristic of the new genus. This style liked to dancers who now could improvise more and invent new figures.

Jorrín composed other songs in the same style, and the name we originally call his experiments was the "Neo danzón. This is not a very attractive name, but talks about what the composer thought of his new creation.

The name we all know was born with the help of the dancers, when they invented the dance that is coupled with the pace, it was discovered that the feet marked a sound peculiar to graze the ground, precisely in three steps of syncopated rhythm, which we renamed chachacha as the sound comes from its name.

This new rate spread rapidly through the Americas, especially Mexico, where Jorrín get to create his own orchestra, which contributed to leave Cuba for the American Orchestra, also giving way to new formations to retake the Cuban cha-cha. Its rapid spread was due to the fact that it was a celebratory dance and a quite easy one, not too fast nor too slow, so that anyone with little knowledge of dance, was able to dance and enjoy it.

This style began to create its own procedures because of the work of composers such as Cuban and Mexican Ramón Márquez. Richard Egües and Jorge Zamora.

Chachacha's instrumentation was originally picked up the Danzon in Cuba and is played with a musical group called Charanga French whose musical heritage comes from migrations due to war of independence from Haiti. This was the percussion, piano, bass, flute and a string section.

Major groups, which interpreted chachacha were the Aragón Orchestra, American Orchestra, Loving, and Enrique Jorrín’s Orchestra.