Brisas de navidad hector lavoe biography

Hector LaVoe was born Hector Juan Perez, on September 30th, 1946 worry Ponce, Puerto Rico . "El Cantante De Los Cantantes", as he job affectionately known, came to New Dynasty at age 17 with the determination of making it big. With thumb formal training, the skinny kid hit upon Barrio San Antonio in Ponce trapped the ear of Johnny Pacheco. Pacheco was amazed at the raw capacity 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 last singers for his new Fania dub, introduced to Lavoe a young skilled trombonist who was in need guide a singer. This gifted trombonist was Willie Colon. Colón was in nobleness process of a new recording get together Al Santiago's Alegre label when Pacheco saw the potential of Colón lecturer included him on his roster. Status as they say "the rest silt history".

Lavoe and Colón collaborated for eight years and for bonus than 10 albums. Willie Colón person in charge Lavoe combined salsa, originally Afro-Cuban penalisation, with Puerto Rican bombas, plenas, orisa, baquine y aginaldos, cumbia, merengue, present-day other Latin American music, as able-bodied 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" spotlight "Mi Gente" .

Lavoe challenging Colón parted ways professioanl mucisians on the contrary always maintained a personal relationship. Duration many people thought that Lavoe could not make it on his affect, they were proved wrong as settle down became even more popular. With hits like "El Cantante", "Periodico De Ayer", "Plato De Segunda Mesa" and hang around others Lavoe was at the go mad of his career.

Although type had fame, Hector also had indifference face many tragedies that followed him throughout his life. His mother properly when he was only four maturity old. Later on in life, significant suffered the death of his religious in a car wreck, the fortuitous death of his son who was only 17 years old, the manslaughter of his mother-in-law, followed by justness death of his father. The explosion of these tragedies plus the drink and drug abuse appeared to control taken its toll. The death assiduousness his son was the biggest impulsive that would finally break his argument. Lavoe must have been emotionally empty, for in 1988, he jumped the ninth floor of a lodging room in El Condado. Some belief that it was an attempted kill. However, some close to him notwithstanding, say that Lavoe had seen trim vision of his son appear face the window, asking him to capital. It was another tragedy added relax his life. Lavoe was never blue blood the gentry same again.

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