A street in the Longwood section of The Bronx is now celebrating a new name – Héctor Lavoe Way. The intersection of Westchester and Bryant avenues was renamed for the Puerto Rican salsa singer. The ...

Así comienza la canción "El Todopoderoso" del legendario Héctor Lavoe. Durante esta Semana Santa, en BBC Mundo nos adentramos en esa canción así como también en otro clásico de la salsa: "El Nazareno" ...

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. "El ...

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 ...

In Hollywood, you often hear of passion projects — movies that nobody in their right mind should try to produce, yet a handful of stubborn filmmakers do it anyway. El Cantante, starring Marc Anthony ...

Colombian singer/rapper Ryan Castro channeled a candid rendition of Héctor Lavoe’s timeless salsa song “El Cantante,” appropriately titled “El Cantante del Ghetto” at the Latin American Music Awards ...

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 ...

Hector Leguillow says his friend’s talents will never be forgotten. “The most spontaneous, quick minded singers that improvise in Latin music," said Hector Leguillow. Lavoe moved into the building on ...

MIAMI (Billboard) - Hector Lavoe, dead for a decade, is today the most popular name on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart, thanks to "El Cantante," the film based on his life, starring Marc Anthony.

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 ...