Hector Lavoe "La Voz" **

I remember clearly that day, it was Friday afternoon, my cousin had borught a LP (remember those huge black dics) in a blue cover and a typographic design on it that said "FANIA" and below it written in little letters "all stars". That day there was a big party at her friend's house, I was a little boy and I asked her about that disc, she said to me that was salsa music. At the time I did not know many things about salsa and moreover I was not even interested in it. She played the LP and told me several stories when "FANIA ALL STARS" came first to city to the stadium and made people dance since then and forever. She left our house that Friday afternoon and headed to the party promising to bring the LP on monday for I wanted to listen to it again and make a copy in a 60 MIN MAXWELL TAPE. That Friday changed my life forever, I came across the best salsa band ever, (a year later I went trhough a similar situation with the Rolling Stones and another LP this time by Led Zeppelin -the one with the hermit on the cover I think-. Hector Lavoe was one of the main stars of Fania All. I never realised the importance of Lavoe for Salsa music until he die On June 29, 1993, thirteen years ago. This post is on his Honour, this post is for "La voz" "el cantante de los cantantes" HECTOR LAVOE. If you want to know more about Hector Lavoe please go here.

Also I have posted a video from youtube.com, please if you want to watch it remember first to stop "trapecista's radio blog".

Volan

** I never learned how to dance salsa, I did not even try.

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