Larry Harlow, a pianist, arranger, producer and activist who helped to popularize salsa in the U.S., died ... his superlative by studying Afro-Cuban music in Havana in the late 1950s, leaving ...

Pacheco, a pioneering musician who helped popularize salsa music in the US, died this week, his former record label and his wife, Cuqui Pacheco, confirmed. He was 85. The artist’s musical ...

An outsider, he lived a Latin music life by immersing himself in Afro-Caribbean culture. By Ed Morales In many ways, Larry Harlow — one of the central figures of salsa and its defining label ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, onstage and in the production studios of Fania Records, a label often described as the Motown of Latin music, he would help define salsa and spread it throughout the ...

Salsa-music legend Rubén Blades is having a moment ... Blades this month was named the Latin Recording Academy 2021 Person of the Year. Previous honorees range from Shakira and Placido ...

While building a successful musical career, Pacheco simultaneously produced several films that have helped popularize salsa music internationally, including 1992 film “Los Reyes del Mambo ...

Larry Harlow, the Brooklyn-born, classically trained pianist who helped popularize salsa music as one of the stars of the pioneering Fania Records label, is dead at 82. The bandleader from ...

Manuelle and Santa Rosa continue to dominate the salsa music realm, a new generation of talented and passionately driven artists is surging. Notably is Luis Vázquez, who in 2021 made history as ...

"We grew up with this music and we saw there was a little bit of a dearth of it in this area." Garcia, who also studied at UNF, said playing salsa music come naturally for him. "I grew up playing ...

Camilo and Juan Luis Guerra tied for the most wins of the night and Rubén Blades won Album of the Year Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined PEOPLE in ...

I was born and raised in the Bronx. So, as a little girl, my mom, who’s Puerta Rican, would put on salsa music on Saturdays to clean the house. Typical right? So I was exposed to salsa music at ...