Salsa

Noche De SALSA

Hector Lavoe

Hector Lavoe

Fania All Star Salsa

Celia Cruz et la Fania All Stars

Willie Colon Y Hector Lavoe, The Bad Boys of SALSA. Photo by Martin Cohen

hector & willie

Poster

Eight years after its creation, Fania Records had accumulated such a sizable catalog of artists that it began to issue compilations from its roster of hit-making stars such as Willie Colón, Larry Harlow, Johnny Pacheco, and Ray Barretto. In fact, Crime Pays was the first anthology the label put out in 1972. The ironically titled Crime Pays was a comment on the success of Colón’s carefully cultivated bad guy image that he sustained until the mid-1970s. The anthology compiles nine key cuts…

Ilustra es una plataforma que tiene como objetivo la promoción y difusión del talento creativo iberoamericano.

In 1967 Héctor Pérez agreed to record the album El Malo in order to please Johnny Pacheco, recording director and co-founder of Fania Records. The true story is that the president of Fania, Jerry Masucci, agreed to edit the first albums of Willie Colón’s band with the condition that among its ranks it would have a versatile, well-versed singer, who possessed a timbre and tessitura more pleasing than that of Tony Vázquez, its lead singer. Pacheco introduced him to Colón and at the beginning…

Hector Lavoe Latin Beat Cover

La Gran Fuga – Fania

Johnny Colon

Llegó el sabor al flickr! jeje los q me conocen saben q la salsa es una de mis grandes pasiones y que mejor q compartirles un poco de ese gusto con un afiche. Este es el primer diseño del año esper