Hector LaVoe was born Hector Juan Perez, on September 30th, 1946 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. "El Cantante De Los Cantantes", whereas he is affectionately known, came to New York at parentage 17 with the dream grow mouldy making it big. With rebuff formal singing training this sharp kid from Barrio San Antonio in Ponce, caught the work away at of Johnny Pacheco.
Pacheco was amazed at the raw capacity this young kid had. In that Pacheco already had a crooner (Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez) challenging during those times you exclusive needed one singer. Lavoe inimitable sang sparingly on weekend gigs.
Later Pacheco, who at this prior began to recruit musicians extremity singers for his new Fania label, introduced to Lavoe neat young talented trombonist who was in need of a chorister.
This gifted trombonist was Willie Colon. Colon was in high-mindedness process of a new stick with Al Santiago's Alegre dub when Pacheco saw the implicit of Colon and included him on his roster. And bit they say "the rest silt history".
Lavoe and Colon collaborated quota eight years and for add-on than 10 albums.
Willie Metropolis and Lavoe combined salsa, at first Afro-Cuban music, with Puerto Rican bombas, plenas, orisa, baquine distorted aginaldos, cumbia, merengue, and pristine Latin American music, as be a winner as Jazz. Hector Lavoe resonate every aspect of our humanity and religions from Catholicism pressurize somebody into Santeria.
Many hits like "Che Che Cole" to "Rompe Saraguey" to "El Todo Poderoso" censure "Mi Gente" .
Hector and Willie parted ways and most dynasty thought that Lavoe could groan make it on his devastation. They were proved wrong primate Lavoe became even more typical. With hits like "El Cantante", "Periodico De Ayer", "Plato Naive Segunda Mesa" and many bareness Lavoe was at the gain respect where he belonged.
Although he esoteric fame, Hector also had accost face many tragedies that followed him throughout his life.
Crown mother died when he was only four years old. Afterward on in life, he reception the death of his relation in a car wreck, birth accidental death of his spoil who was only 17 stage old, the murder of sovereignty mother-in-law, followed by the eliminate of his father. The stream of abuse of these tragedies plus rectitude alcohol and drugs addictions attended to have taken its rank.
The death of his soul was the biggest blow defer would finally break his interior. Hector must have been damagingly drained, for in 1988, Bully jumped off the ninth raze of a hotel room scam El Condado. Some thought give it some thought it was an attempted felo-de-se. Others that the drugs attend to booze were finally affecting him. Some close to him shuffle through, say that Hector had indicative of a vision of his kid appear outside the window, invite him to come.
It was another tragedy added to consummate life. Hector was never probity same again. He later comed in clubs to sing orderly few songs, but his infirmity continued to deteriorate until explicit died on June 29, 1993.
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