Music
Legendary Puerto Rican singer Hector Lavoe has been dead for almost a decade, but you couldn’t help but feel his spirit Saturday at the House of Blues when his best friend and musical partner Willie Colon offered an emotionally charged sampling of the music that made them both famous.
June 23, 1997
The lure of salsa is in the rhythm--the way the music seduces you, especially on the dance floor, with its unique blend of spicy Afro-Caribbean strains and colorful, big-band punctuation.
April 28, 1996
Sometimes, Willie Colon must feel like a stranger in his own land.
Jan. 30, 1992
Salsa is a musical style of Cuban origin, with other Central and South American rhythms and jazz added.
Dec. 23, 1988
Willie Colon’s performance tonight at Hamptons in Santa Ana has been canceled because of slow advance ticket sales, according to a spokesman at Colon’s booking agency, Deleon Artists.
May 8, 1990
Seventeen years after changing the course of salsa with their album “Siembra” (“Sowing”), Blades and Colon have a go at it again.
Jan. 23, 1995
His Conga Room performance is punctuated by an emotional connection to late Hector Lavoe.
Nov. 12, 2002
Angels
Joe Saunders was 2-0 with a 1.96 earned-run average in three starts this month, including Friday night’s emotional victory over Seattle, when the left-hander, wearing a Virginia Tech cap to honor victims of Monday’s campus massacre, threw six shutout innings to help end the Angels’ losing streak at six games.
April 22, 2007
The artists in this edition of Latin Pulse range from two kinds of salsa devotees--a veteran (Willie Colon) and a convert from hip-hop (Marc Anthony)--to a Mexican romantic idolo and a mainstream pop star who demands respect.
July 11, 1993
Ruben Blades may have lost his bid for the presidency of Panama last spring, but he’s not in mourning.