N.Y. -- Patrick Colon, the son of salsa legend Willie Colon, was spared prison time for possessing child pornography, court records show. Colon was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Vincent ...

Willie Colón, who received a Lifetime Achievement ... Born in the South Bronx to second-generation immigrant parents, Colon became famous in music circles for fusing the musical stylings of ...

The feat is remarkable given the fact that salsa’s peak arrived in the late ‘60s, marked by legends Celia Cruz and Willie Colón who cemented the genre as a staple of Latin culture.

Willie Colón, Eddie Palmieri, Ruben Bladés, Ismael Miranda, and Pacheco himself. The label played a huge part in spreading Latin music, particularly salsa, throughout Europe and Latin America.

Like his friend Hector, Willie Colon's roots lay in Puerto Rico, and we see how they both helped transform that island's folk sounds into full-blooded Salsa, with The Fania All Stars band in New York.

It was Mr. Masucci who, through Fania Records, launched the careers of such salsa artists as Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe, Larry Harlow and Ruben Blades (who was initially hired as a clerk in Fania ...

Willie Colón and Rubén Blades. Ray Barretto, Larry Harlow and Eddie Palmieri, to name a few. But the imprint that defined the identity of an entire genre eventually succumbed — like salsa ...

It’s taken 40 years for Celia Cruz and Willie Colón to debut in tandem on ... In between, the queen of salsa, has locked three No. 1s on the tally: Hits Mix (five weeks at No. 1 starting ...