Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Hector Lavoe, one of Puerto Rico's most famous Salsa singers, is reincarnated in ...

Héctor Lavoe, whose full name was Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, was a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. He was born on September 30, 1946, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and passed away on June 29, 1993, in ...

Grammy winning singer Marc Anthony was handpicked by the producers of “El Cantante” to play legendary salsa king Héctor Lavoe and according to one of his costars — Manny Perez — the 38-year-old ...

The Colombian singer performed a candid rendition of a salsa classic with his own "El Cantante del Ghetto." By Isabela Raygoza Associate Editor, Billboard Español Colombian singer/rapper Ryan Castro ...

In Hollywood, you often hear of passion projects — movies that nobody in their right mind should try to produce, yet a handful of stubborn filmmakers do it anyway. El Cantante, starring Marc Anthony ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lovely news: “El Cantante” is not a vanity project. Indeed, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony – two powerhouse entertainers – deliver professionally earnest, ...

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There’s a scene in “El Cantante,” the controversial biopic about salsa singer Hector Lavoe starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, when a sudden downpour washes out a sparsely attended concert ...

For Héctor Lavoe’s biographer, what’s more relevant about the salsa superstar’s life is precisely what’s not in the book. Marc Shapiro’s “Passion and Pain” (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.95) is a ...

MIAMI (Billboard) - When Marc Anthony was a young, up-and-coming singer with long, flowing hair, his friend DJ/producer "Little" Louie Vega took him to meet Hector Lavoe, the legendary salsa singer.