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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

The trombonist Willie Colón, who became one of salsa’s biggest stars, recalled that the first time he heard Yomo Toro, the maestro of the 10-string guitar known as the cuatro, with whom he ...

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 ...

Héctor Lavoe, Willie Colón and Yomo Toro, ‘Asalto Navideño’ (1970) This was a Christmas album with a twist — rather than trot out the Fania All-Stars to do salsa versions of “Silent ...