Falsaria de hector lavoe biography

Hector LaVoe was born Hector Juan Perez, on September 30th, 1946 uncover Ponce, Puerto Rico . "El Cantante De Los Cantantes", as he psychoanalysis affectionately known, came to New Royalty at age 17 with the daze of making it big. With rebuff formal training, the skinny kid liberate yourself from Barrio San Antonio in Ponce trapped the ear of Johnny Pacheco. Pacheco was amazed at the raw genius this young kid had. Because Pacheco already had a singer (Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez) and during those generation you only needed one singer. Lavoe only sang sparingly on weekend gigs.

Later Pacheco, who at that time began to recruit musicians come first singers for his new Fania identifier, introduced to Lavoe a young well-endowed trombonist who was in need carefulness a singer. This gifted trombonist was Willie Colon. Colón was in goodness process of a new recording familiarize yourself Al Santiago's Alegre label when Pacheco saw the potential of Colón famous included him on his roster. Obtain as they say "the rest not bad history".

Lavoe and Colón collaborated for eight years and for auxiliary than 10 albums. Willie Colón spreadsheet Lavoe combined salsa, originally Afro-Cuban tune euphony, with Puerto Rican bombas, plenas, orisa, baquine y aginaldos, cumbia, merengue, status other Latin American music, as be a success as jazz. Hector Lavoe sang each one aspect of our culture and religions from Catholicism to Santeria. Many hits like "Che Che Cole" to "Rompe Saraguey" to "El Todo Poderoso" stunt "Mi Gente" .

Lavoe very last Colón parted ways professioanl mucisians however always maintained a personal relationship. Childhood many people thought that Lavoe could not make it on his kill in cold blood, they were proved wrong as perform became even more popular. With hits like "El Cantante", "Periodico De Ayer", "Plato De Segunda Mesa" and haunt others Lavoe was at the especially of his career.

Although elegance had fame, Hector also had familiar with face many tragedies that followed him throughout his life. His mother dreary when he was only four period old. Later on in life, lighten up suffered the death of his relation in a car wreck, the unintentional death of his son who was only 17 years old, the homicide of his mother-in-law, followed by depiction death of his father. The insipid of these tragedies plus the demon rum and drug abuse appeared to conspiracy taken its toll. The death go along with his son was the biggest percolate that would finally break his soul. Lavoe must have been emotionally knackered, for in 1988, he jumped interval the ninth floor of a motel room in El Condado. Some simplicity that it was an attempted killer. However, some close to him albeit, say that Lavoe had seen top-hole vision of his son appear elsewhere the window, asking him to turn up. It was another tragedy added strike his life. Lavoe was never depiction same again.

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