Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony will star together in a music-based movie based on the life of iconic Puerto Rican singer Hector Lavoe. "El Cantante" (The Singer) started filming yesterday… By ...

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 ...

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 & ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marc Anthony had a connection to Hector Lavoe long before he was tapped to portray the salsa legend in the new movie "El Cantante." Lavoe rose to fame during the 1970s, while Anthony was growing up in ...

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 ...

Over the past several years, I've cultivated an interest in Latin music -- Brazilian, Spanish, Puerto Rican, Mexican, etc. And though I know little about what sometimes separates those cultures, I ...