There’s a scene in “El Cantante,” the controversial biopic about salsa singer Hector Lavoe starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, when a sudden downpour washes out a sparsely attended ...

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 ...

Marc Anthony had a connection to Hector Lavoe long before he was tapped to portray the salsa legend in the new movie "El Cantante." Lavoe rose to fame during the 1970s, while Anthony was growing ...

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 ...

Late salsa star Hector Lavoe was, perhaps, largely unknown to mainstream American music lovers. But the new film El Cantante starring Hollywood couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, brings his ...

The premise: Hector Lavoe (played by Marc Anthony) is a legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer in the 1970s and ‘80s whose unhealthful lifestyle includes multiple sexual partners, cigarettes ...

The rise and fall of salsa singer Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s, Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce ...