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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After this review went to press, El Cantante‘s distributor cancelled the film’s opening this weekend in the Triangle. No information has been given about when the movie will open locally. There’s a ...

The tumultuous life of Hector Lavoe — the late salsa pioneer who helped popularize the genre in the United States — was a lot like one of his signature tunes. Bursts of passion and joy were punctuated ...

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 ...