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, ...

Hector Lavoe wasn’t just a Puerto Rican singer with giant funky gold-rimmed glasses, a violent marriage to a crazy woman named “Puchi”, and more money in coke than Neville Isdell (he’s the CEO of Coca ...

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 Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno” and Héctor Lavoe’s “El Cantante” will be safeguarded for posterity, the Library of Congress announced Tuesday. The two tracks are among the 25 “audio treasures” selected ...

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 ...

The opening of Leon Ichaso’s biopic of salsa star Héctor Lavoe has a buzzy vitality that doesn’t prepare you for what a drag the rest of the movie is. Jennifer Lopez, as Lavoe’s long-suffering but ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (De Los and Associated Press) Juan Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno" and Héctor Lavoe’s “El Cantante" will be safeguarded for posterity, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hits by two late Latin music icons whose ballads and salsa songs are constants in playlists across generations have been inducted ...

Hector Lavoe wasn’t just a Puerto Rican singer with giant funky gold-rimmed glasses, a violent marriage to a crazy woman named “Puchi”, and more money in coke than Neville Isdell (he’s the CEO of Coca ...