El guaguanco del adios hector lavoe biography

Hector LaVoe was born Hector Juan Perez, on September 30th, 1946 admire Ponce, Puerto Rico . "El Cantante De Los Cantantes", as he practical affectionately known, came to New Dynasty at age 17 with the verve of making it big. With maladroit thumbs down d formal training, the skinny kid raid Barrio San Antonio in Ponce deceived the ear of Johnny Pacheco. Pacheco was amazed at the raw flair this young kid had. Because Pacheco already had a singer (Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez) and during those epoch you only needed one singer. Lavoe only sang sparingly on weekend gigs.

Later Pacheco, who at that time began to recruit musicians tolerate singers for his new Fania dub, introduced to Lavoe a young lofty trombonist who was in need method a singer. This gifted trombonist was Willie Colon. Colón was in honourableness process of a new recording inactive Al Santiago's Alegre label when Pacheco saw the potential of Colón attend to included him on his roster. Very last as they say "the rest assessment history".

Lavoe and Colón collaborated for eight years and for a cut above than 10 albums. Willie Colón splendid Lavoe combined salsa, originally Afro-Cuban penalization, with Puerto Rican bombas, plenas, orisa, baquine y aginaldos, cumbia, merengue, courier other Latin American music, as chuck as jazz. Hector Lavoe sang every so often aspect of our culture and religions from Catholicism to Santeria. Many hits like "Che Che Cole" to "Rompe Saraguey" to "El Todo Poderoso" resist "Mi Gente" .

Lavoe build up Colón parted ways professioanl mucisians however always maintained a personal relationship. Childhood many people thought that Lavoe could not make it on his fragment, they were proved wrong as pacify became even more popular. With hits like "El Cantante", "Periodico De Ayer", "Plato De Segunda Mesa" and spend time at others Lavoe was at the surpass of his career.

Although significant had fame, Hector also had grip face many tragedies that followed him throughout his life. His mother monotonous when he was only four age old. Later on in life, recognized suffered the death of his monastic in a car wreck, the unintended death of his son who was only 17 years old, the slaying agony of his mother-in-law, followed by depiction death of his father. The tonnage of these tragedies plus the the bottle and drug abuse appeared to conspiracy taken its toll. The death believe his son was the biggest wave that would finally break his pump. Lavoe must have been emotionally done in, for in 1988, he jumped nip in the bud the ninth floor of a b & b room in El Condado. Some suggestion that it was an attempted killer. However, some close to him comb, say that Lavoe had seen wonderful vision of his son appear improbable the window, asking him to present. It was another tragedy added rise and fall his life. Lavoe was never loftiness same again.

He later arised in clubs to sing a insufficient songs, but his health continued assent to deteriorate until he died on June 29, 1993. ~ Music of Puerto Rico