Thanks to a new 50th-anniversary reissue, Willie Colón and Hector Lavoe's Cosa Nuestra debuts at No. 3 on the Tropical Albums chart (dated Oct… By Pamela Bustios Sr. Charts & Data Analyst (Latin & ...

Ponce, Puerto Rico, Jun 2 (EFE).Ponce, Puerto Rico, Jun 2 (EFE). — La Guancha Recreational and Cultural Complex in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the site since last weekend of a statue portraying late salsa ...

For Héctor Lavoe’s biographer, what’s more relevant about the salsa superstar’s life is precisely what’s not in the book. Marc Shapiro’s “Passion and Pain” (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.95) is a ...

The work of Puerto Rico-born musician Héctor Lavoe resonates through the annals of salsa music history. Known as “El Cantante de los Cantantes” (“The Singer of Singers”), Lavoe’s powerful voice and ...

Craft Recordings have been on a roll of late, following 2021's excellently presented Ornette Coleman boxset, Genesis of Genius, with 2023's Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series and imminent ...

Héctor Lavoe, whose full name was Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, was a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. He was born on September 30, 1946, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and passed away on June 29, 1993, in ...

Hector Lavoe wasn’t just a Puerto Rican singer with giant funky gold-rimmed glasses, a violent marriage to a crazy woman named “Puchi”, and more money in coke than Neville Isdell (he’s the CEO of Coca ...

Hits by two late Latin music icons whose ballads and salsa songs are constants in playlists across generations have been inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.

When you set out to do a biographical film about a public figure who’s well known to much of the audience, you start in a deep hole. But give the makers of El Cantante some credit. Marc Anthony, with ...

A street in the Longwood section of The Bronx is now celebrating a new name – Héctor Lavoe Way. The intersection of Westchester and Bryant avenues was renamed for the Puerto Rican salsa singer. The ...

Grammy winning singer Marc Anthony was handpicked by the producers of “El Cantante” to play legendary salsa king Héctor Lavoe and according to one of his costars — Manny Perez — the 38-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hits by two late Latin music icons whose ballads and salsa songs are constants in playlists across generations have been inducted ...