Fania Records is known as the Motown of salsa music, a label that ignited ... The tracks were taken from the all-star band’s show at Puerto Rico’s Roberto Clemente Stadium, as you can clearly ...

A year after releasing “Plástico,” his standout disco-salsa hit with Fania All-Star Colón, Panamanian vocalist Rubén Blades was invited to help Pacheco and Ramirez write a song for the ...

can be found in the hundreds of recordings featuring this Fania All-Star. Barretto is considered a visionary who transformed the traditional brass-dominated salsa sound without sacrificing its ...

Salsa was created when The Fania All Stars band added a dynamic New York ... disobedience", says band-leader Willie Colon, and super-star Ruben Blades describes the cultural melting pot that ...

The ethnomusicologist Jose Obando has identified 95 different folkloric traditions in salsa, spanning all ... star-making Cheetah Club gig. Yet Masucci had greater ambitions. In 1973, the Fania ...

Salsa music has its origins Cuba and Puerto ... orchestras and artists such as El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Fania All-Star, Celia Cruz, Héctor Lavoe, Grupo Niche, Willie Colón and Ruben Blades.

Salsa started as a Caribbean phenomenon, but it spread all over the world like wildfire ... The new sound found an ideal home ...

Late salsa star Hector Lavoe was ... a college party wasn't complete unless you had some Fania All Stars and some Fania artists on the turntable. MARTIN: Okay. Let's listen to a little of Hector ...

"Not very fluent, but I did get by." He and artists like Willie Colon and Celia Cruz collaborated to create the salsa supergroup Fania All-Stars. Their iconic, incomparable sound still resonates.

Salsa started as a Caribbean phenomenon, but it spread all over the world like wildfire, and its devilish rhythm and sinuous melodies are now universal. At its best, salsa can rock as hard as rock.