Fania Records, founded in the 1960s by Gerry Masucci and Johnny Pacheco, became the top tropical latin label in the world. Izzy Sanabria had been designing covers for Fania beginning in the late 60s, ...

The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa ...

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...

Fifty years ago, the sounds that dominated Latin music were thriving. Rock had become ambitious (and intellectual), the New York salsa explosion was at its apex, and the movements of bossa nova and ...

An icon of Miami’s nightlife scene has officially been resurrected with the reopening of the bar and live music venue Hoy Como Ayer. With its name rooted in Cuban singer Benny Moré’s bolero hit of the ...

He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.” Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From ...

How does one reinvent salsa, a universally beloved and traditional music genre? That’s the question that 34-year-old salsero Luis Figueroa keeps asking himself. From touring the world with Romeo ...

The UML Latin Music and Jazz Lab ensembles, featuring vocalists and instrumentalists from the Music Department, perform in concert on Monday, Dec. 8, at 8 p.m. in Moloney Performing Arts Center ...

Eddie Palmieri, the virtuosic keyboardist and visionary bandleader who helped define and then expanded the aesthetic parameters of the salsa genre, has died at the age of 88. His death was confirmed ...