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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lovely news: “El Cantante” is not a vanity project. Indeed, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony – two powerhouse entertainers – deliver professionally earnest, ...

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 ...

Grammy winning singer Marc Anthony was handpicked by the producers of “El Cantante” to play legendary salsa king Héctor Lavoe and according to one of his costars — Manny Perez — the 38-year-old ...

THIS debut collection of interrelated short stories by Chicano writer Michael Jaime-Becerra is rich and lively. A dazzling array of personalities including a trucker, a goth, a bride, a worker at ...

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 ...

Marc Anthony, who stars in “El Cantante,” León Ichaso’s biopic of the Puerto Rican sonero Héctor Lavoe, had a simple reason for wanting to play the singer on film. “If my life were a movie, he would ...

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 ...