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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you set out to do a biographical film about a public figure who’s well known to much of the audience, you start in a deep hole. But give the makers of El Cantante some credit. Marc Anthony, with ...

Craft Recordings have been on a roll of late, following 2021's excellently presented Ornette Coleman boxset, Genesis of Genius, with 2023's Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series and imminent ...

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"El Cantante" serves up some hot salsa indeed. The flashy song and dance numbers and glitzy party scenes give you a taste of what it was like to be a salsa star in the 1970s and '80s. The sights and ...

Hits by two late Latin music icons whose ballads and salsa songs are constants in playlists across generations have been inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Juan ...

The closing titles of biopic El Cantante note that the film’s subject, Hector Lavoe, died of AIDS in the early ’90s after contracting the disease from drug use. The only reason for driving home that ...

You’d think that, after the dreadful Gigli turned Jennifer Lopez’ love life into late-night television’s most hackneyed punch line, she’d stay far, far away from projects that feature husbands, ...

Juan Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno” and Héctor Lavoe’s “El Cantante” will be safeguarded for posterity, the Library of Congress announced Tuesday. The two tracks are among the 25 “audio treasures” selected ...