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The flagship act for Fania Information, the Fania All-Stars popularized NY salsa through the 1970s by organizing concerts at much larger and much larger venues (from your Red Garter in Greenwich Town completely to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx) that spotlighted not merely the label’s however the salsa world’s biggest …

Héctor Lavoe was created to sing. As Latin music evolved from the boogaloo from the past due ’60s towards the salsa growth from the ’70s, Lavoe was at its forefront and “Un Cantante” (the vocalist) of a few of its most representative tunes. Given birth to Héctor Juan Perez in …