Hector Lavoe was a Puerto Rican salsa singer who had a net worth of $500 thousand at the time of his death in 1993. Known as "El Cantante de los Cantantes" ("The Singer of Singers"), Lavoe rose to ...

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 ...

Ponce, Puerto Rico, Jun 2 (EFE).Ponce, Puerto Rico, Jun 2 (EFE). — La Guancha Recreational and Cultural Complex in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the site since last weekend of a statue portraying late salsa ...

Hector Lavoe was, for lack of a better term, a genius. Not only was he probably the greatest singer in salsa history, he was also an insightful songwriter and a gifted improviser, (“sonero”). He was ...

Craft Recordings have been on a roll of late, following 2021's excellently presented Ornette Coleman boxset, Genesis of Genius, with 2023's Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series and imminent ...

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 & ...

El Cantante: Drama. Starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. Directed by Leon Ichaso. (R. 116 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) At least the rock stars profiled on VH1's "Behind the Music" had the ...

When you set out to do a biographical film about a public figure who’s well known to much of the audience, you start in a deep hole. But give the makers of El Cantante some credit. Marc Anthony, with ...

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 ...

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, $14.95) is a ...

Salsa fans might be eager to finally see the hyped Héctor Lavoe biopic “El Cantante” — starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer López. But those who lived closer to the troubled Puerto Rican salsa superstar ...