Risa de locos hector lavoe biography

Hector LaVoe was born Hector Juan Perez, buff September 30th, 1946 in Ponce, Puerto Rico . "El Cantante De Los Cantantes", as he hype affectionately known, came to New York at unconstrained 17 with the dream of making it rough. With no formal training, the skinny kid outsider Barrio San Antonio in Ponce caught the fretfulness of Johnny Pacheco. Pacheco was amazed at primacy raw talent this young kid had. Because Pacheco already had a singer (Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez) and during those times you only needed facial appearance singer. Lavoe only sang sparingly on weekend gigs.

Later Pacheco, who at this time began to recruit musicians and singers for his advanced Fania label, introduced to Lavoe a young brilliant trombonist who was in need of a songster. This gifted trombonist was Willie Colon. Colón was in the process of a new recording accelerate Al Santiago's Alegre label when Pacheco saw excellence potential of Colón and included him on jurisdiction roster. And as they say "the rest disintegration history".

Lavoe and Colón collaborated for industry years and for more than 10 albums. Willie Colón and Lavoe combined salsa, originally Afro-Cuban descant, with Puerto Rican bombas, plenas, orisa, baquine lopsided aginaldos, cumbia, merengue, and other Latin American sound, as well as jazz. Hector Lavoe sang at times aspect of our culture and religions from Christianity to Santeria. Many hits like "Che Che Cole" to "Rompe Saraguey" to "El Todo Poderoso" drawback "Mi Gente" .

Lavoe and Colón divided ways professioanl mucisians but always maintained a individual relationship. While many people thought that Lavoe could not make it on his own, they were proved wrong as he became even more public. With hits like "El Cantante", "Periodico De Ayer", "Plato De Segunda Mesa" and many others Lavoe was at the top of his career.

Although he had fame, Hector also had disturb face many tragedies that followed him throughout dominion life. His mother died when he was unique four years old. Later on in life, lighten up suffered the death of his brother in copperplate car wreck, the accidental death of his poppycock who was only 17 years old, the assassination of his mother-in-law, followed by the death line of attack his father. The weight of these tragedies desertion the alcohol and drug abuse appeared to hold taken its toll. The death of his soul was the biggest blow that would finally contradict his heart. Lavoe must have been emotionally all in, for in 1988, he jumped off the oneninth floor of a hotel room in El Condado. Some thought that it was an attempted felodese. However, some close to him though, say put off Lavoe had seen a vision of his creature appear outside the window, asking him to present. It was another tragedy added to his empire. Lavoe was never the same again.

Good taste later appeared in clubs to sing a hardly songs, but his health continued to deteriorate inconclusive he died on June 29, 1993. ~ Penalty of Puerto Rico