One of salsa music's most towering figures is gone — the Grammy-nominated trombonist and activist died Saturday at 75.

A trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and arranger, he collaborated with Rubén Blades on “Siembra,” a 1978 release that became one of the top-selling salsa albums of all time.

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Colón was 75. Born William Anthony Colón Román on April 28, 1950, in the South Bronx, Colón signed with Fania Records as a ...

If there was one collaboration that changed the history of Latin music, it was that of Rubén Blades and Willie Colón. On Saturday, the legendary Panamanian artist mourned the death of the New ...

Throughout his career, Colón released more than 40 albums, pioneering a salsa sound influenced by the streets of New York ...

JCWK Dance Lab presents the inaugural Greater Reading Area Dance Exchange (GRADE) Festival on March 13 at 7:30 p.m., March 14 at 7:30 p.m. and March 15 at 4 p.m. at Alvernia University’s Francis Hall ...

William Anthony "Willie" Colón Román, the pioneering salsa musician, composer, trombonist and cultural force whose work ...

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The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for the vision of Willie Colón. While Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta had been plying the two-trombone sound for years, Colón ...

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Willie Colón, the legendary Latin musician who helped define salsa music, has died at the age of 75. The Bronx-born ...