President Donald Trump’s policies are spreading terror in a neighborhood of the U.S. territory considered the epicenter of the island’s immigrant community ...

The “Cosa Nuestra World Tour” stop highlighted salsa and paid homage to the once-criminalized tradition of Bomba. The audience danced their approval in heels.

Nueva Yol! Bad Bunny returned to the Met Gala this evening—his fourth, if you’re keeping count (and we are)—to celebrate the ...

The biggest explosion of salsa occurred between the 60s and 80s, among other things due to the creation of Fania Records in 1964 by Dominican musician Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci, who recruited ...

There are plenty of references to the golden-age salsa that date from his grandparents’ time in the city. The record’s title refers to the 1969 album of the same name by Willie Colón and ...

But back in the day, especially during the Fania era with legends like Willie Colón and Rubén Blades, salsa wasn't recorded like that. It was live, with the whole orchestra playing together ...

This is the record company that gave birth to La Fania All Stars, bringing together salsa greats like Johnny Pacheco, Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe, Pete Rodriguez, and who else but Celia Cruz.

The first song of the album, “NUEVAYoL,” samples the salsa group el Gran Combo de Puerto Rico's 1975 ... and Washington Heights and famous Nuyorican musicians like Big Pun and Willie Colón. The song’s ...

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 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 ...

If you liked the track, check out a classic such as La Murga, by salsa legends (and Puerto Ricans) Willie Colón and the late, great Hector Lavoe. The song features a similar, slower tempo and ...