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 ...

The Colombian singer performed a candid rendition of a salsa classic with his own "El Cantante del Ghetto." By Isabela Raygoza Associate Editor, Billboard Español Colombian singer/rapper Ryan Castro ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...