There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American salsa musician and activist Willie Colón, who recorded some of the most seminal and influential salsa albums in Latin ...

Morning Edition's series called One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers in the United States are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their ...

Willie Colón, a beloved Nuyorican musician and a legend in the salsa scene both in New York City and around the world, has died, his family announced Saturday. He was 75 years old. “It is with ...

He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.” Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From ...

Eddie Palmieri, a legendary Latin jazz artist and salsa pioneer, died on Wednesday at 88. His daughter, Gabriela Palmieri, informed The New York Times that he passed after “an extended illness.” ...