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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Criticism and controversy have trailed Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony in recent days as they made their way across country to attend advance screenings for their new movie, "El Cantante," about ...

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 ...

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of ...

Craft Recordings 2024 Having joined Willie Colón in 1967, Héctor Lavoe spent close to ten years with the bandleader and found it to be a suitable arrangement in that Colón would bear the load of ...

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." ...

Cali also shaped the music of salsa legends Hector Lavoe and Alfredito de la Fe, to name a few. Cali Flow Latino recently recorded with Grammy-winning Peruvian producer Tony Succar. — CARLOS PASSAGE ...