Hector Juan Perez, who became known professionally as singer Hector Lavoe, was born Sept. 30, 1946, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The Perezes were a musically inclined family. Hector's father, Luis Perez, ...

San Juan, 1 mar (EFE).San Juan, 1 mar (EFE). — Agrupaciones puertorriqueñas de la nueva generación de la salsa mantienen vigente el legado de la estrella de este género musical Héctor Lavoe, dos ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Juan ...

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 concert ...

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 & ...

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 sound ...

Here are 15 of the best salsa tracks of all-time, including Hector Lavoe, Mark Anthony, El Gran Combo, Ruben Blades, Sonora Ponceña, Celia Cruz and more. By Judy Cantor-Navas Trying to sum up a half ...

Every year since 2000, the Library of Congress picks 25 recordings for its National Recording Registry due to its merits as "audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time." This time around, the ...

On February 14, Radio City Music Hall became the epicenter of music nostalgia as “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) celebrated its ...