Hector Lavoe, a Grammy-nominated singer of salsa music, died Tuesday of cardiac arrest in a Manhattan hospital. He was 46.Mr. Lavoe was an incandescent singer, an improviser who used a boyish ...

Director and co-writer Leon Ichaso has made a standard bio-pic of salsa legend Hector Lavoe, hitting all the obligatory highlights of the singer's life: His arrival in New York from Puerto Rico in ...

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.

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 ...

It has long been a dream of husband-and-wife team Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony to make a film about Hector Lavoe, the Puerto Rican singer who helped popularize salsa music in the United States ...

Ryan Castro Channels the Spirit of Salsa Great Héctor Lavoe at Latin AMAs 2024 The Colombian singer performed a candid rendition of a salsa classic with his own "El Cantante del Ghetto." ...

It's crazy!" Then I'd listen to the music or go back and watch the performances of the Fania All-Stars and watch Héctor just bring the house down and I'd be like, "This is why." ...

Eleanor Polak Photos Alisa Bowens-Mercado teaches a salsa lesson at Salsa Night. The foot-tapping rhythms of “ Triste y Vacía” by Héctor Lavoe & Willie Colón reverberated throughout the blocked-off ...

Perhaps the greatest interpreter of salsa music, singer Héctor Lavoe (1946–1993) was instrumental in popularizing the genre during the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

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 ...

Salsa Music Trailblazer Johnny Pacheco Dies at 85 After Being Hospitalized with Pneumonia: Reports Pacheco founded Fania Records, the label behind legends like Celia Cruz and Héctor Lavoe ...