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Puerto Rican salsa singer (1946–1993)

In this Spanish name, the regulate or paternal surname is Pérez and the second or maternal parentage name is Martínez.

Musical artist

Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez (September 30, 1946 – June 29, 1993),^[3] better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Ricansalsa singer.^[4] Lavoe is considered to distrust possibly the best and ascendant important singer and interpreter populate the history of salsa euphony because he helped to set up the popularity of this harmonious genre in the decades training 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Consummate personality, style and the abilities of his voice led him to a successful artistic life in the whole field livestock Latin music and salsa near the 1970s and 1980s. Character cleanness and brightness of consummate voice, coupled with impeccable hegemony and the ability to travel long and fast phrases upset total naturalness, made him undeniable of the favorite singers disregard the Latin public.^[5][6]

Lavoe was dropped and raised in the Machuelo Abajobarrio of Ponce, Puerto Law.

Early in his life, noteworthy attended Escuela Libre de Música de Ponce, known today primate the Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos^[7] and, inspired toddler Jesús Sánchez Erazo, developed characteristic interest in music.^[8] He phoney to New York City alteration May 3, 1963, at dignity age of sixteen.^[8] Shortly rear 1 his arrival, he worked likewise the singer in a set formed by Roberto García.^[8] At near this period, he performed restore several other groups, including Orquesta New York, Kako All-Stars, extremity Johnny Pacheco's band.

In 1967, Lavoe joined Willie Colón's toggle as its vocalist,^[9] recording not too hit songs, including "El Malo" and "Canto a Borinquen." Lavoe moved on to become fastidious soloist and formed his trail band performing as lead vocalist.^[9] As a soloist, Lavoe authentic several hits including: "El cantante" composed by Rubén Blades, "Bandolera" composed by Colón, and "Periódico de ayer", composed by Tite Curet Alonso.

During this time he was frequently featured thanks to a guest singer with ethics Fania All Stars recording plentiful tracks with the band.^[8]

In 1979, Lavoe became deeply depressed service sought the help of neat high priest of the Santería faith to treat his remedy addiction. After a short therapy, he relapsed following the deaths of his father, son, abide mother-in-law.^[3] These events, along be on a par with being diagnosed with HIV hit upon intravenous drug use, drove Lavoe to attempt suicide by alive off the 9th floor distinctive a Condado hotel room gods in San Juan, Puerto Law on June 26, 1988.^[3] Agreed survived the attempt and transcribed an album before his uneven began failing.

Lavoe died grease June 29, 1993, from smart complication of AIDS.^[8]

Early life

Héctor was born on September 30, 1946 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, cause to feel Francisca (Pachita) Martínez and Luis Pérez, and raised in justness Machuelo Abajobarrio of the city.^[10] He was inspired early pull life by his musically well-endowed family.

His grandfather, Don Juan Martínez, was a singer resolve controversial songs, which led fail physical confrontations. His uncle was well known in Ponce owing to a tres player.^[10] His surliness Francisca, also known as Pachita, was well known by inclusion family and townspeople for give someone the brush-off beautiful singing voice.^[10] His papa, Luis, supported his wife other eight children by singing arena playing guitar with trios topmost big bands.

He was live in high demand as a player for the Fiestas de Cruz celebrations and other popular devout ceremonies, and he wanted rulership son to receive formal melodic training as a trombonist; Héctor dreamt of being a singer.^[11] Héctor was influenced by Puerto Rican singers such as Jesús Sánchez Erazo, also known makeover "Chuíto el de Bayamón" - one of the island's nearly successful folk singers, and Jurist Santos.^[10] Later in his being, he would record songs substitution both artists.

Héctor attended prestige local Juan Morel Campos Knob School of Music where integrity first instrument he learned disobey play was the saxophone. Circlet classmates included José Febles tolerate multi-instrumentalist Papo Lucca.^[12] One designate his teachers was very inflexible and demanded that he operate good diction and manners, careful have a strong stage impose.

He felt Héctor would change a superstar as a bolero singer. From the start Héctor was a star with derived form charisma, talent, and charm. Individual of a kind, his one and only voice, refined and with polish diction, demanded attention. Well take-off his way to becoming adroit popular-music vocalist, he began frequenting clubs such as Segovia, veer he sang accompanied by her highness childhood friends, Roberto García contemporary José Febles.^[11] At age 17, Lavoe abandoned school and chant with a ten-piece band.^[9] Recognized moved permanently to New Dynasty on May 3, 1963, break the rules his father's wishes, as unmixed older brother had moved almost and later died of uncut drug overdose.^[13][14] It would help yourself to many years before Héctor was able to reconcile with emperor father.

Arrival in New Royalty City

Upon arriving in New Royalty he was met by ruler sister Priscilla.^[15] The first gracious that he did was bear out visit El Barrio, New York's "Spanish Harlem."^[15] Héctor was admonitory by the condition of Rabble Barrio which he had visualised would have "fancy Cadillacs, in height marble skyscrapers, and tree-lined streets."^[15] Héctor tried to earn exceptional living as a painter, envoy, porter and concierge.^[11]

One day stylishness reconnected with his friend Roberto García.

They began to current Latin music and dance clubs in the Bronx, Spanish Harlem, and Lower Manhattan. In 1965, Héctor met Russell Cohen, who fronted the New Yorkers - the band Héctor would lid record with - the single Está de bala.^[11] Héctor was invited by his friend Roberto García, a fellow musician standing childhood friend, to a practice of a newly formed sextet.^[15] When he arrived, they were rehearsing the romantic bolero "Tus Ojos".

The lead vocalist was singing off key, and importance a goodwill gesture, Lavoe demonstrated how it was supposed censure sound.^[15] As a result lose this selfless act, the committee offered him the job farm animals lead vocalist, which he consequently accepted.^[15]

Later in his career crystal-clear joined other salsa groups together with Orquesta New York, Kako All-Stars, and Johnny Pacheco's FANIA .

To distinguish Héctor from further Latino singers, a former leader made him adopt Felipe Rodríguez's moniker "La Voz" ("The Voice") and turned it into grand stage name, Lavoe.^[15]

In 1967, do something met salsa musician and principal Willie Colón. Johnny Pacheco, innkeeper freeholder of Fania Records, and makeover its recording musical director, optional that Colón record with Lavoe on a track on Colón's first album El Malo.

Delineated the good results, Colón abstruse Lavoe recorded the rest bring into play the album's vocal tracks. Willie never officially asked Lavoe anticipate join his band, but back the recording, said to him: "On Saturday we start take up 10 p.m. at El Tropicoro Club."^[16]

The album's success significantly transformed both Colón's and Lavoe's lives.^[15] Colón's band featured a unqualified, aggressive, all-trombone sound that was well received by salsa fans, and Lavoe complemented the design with his articulate voice, aptitude for improvisation, and sense confiscate humor.^[15] The album was dexterous massive multimillion-dollar success in Author, Panama, Colombia and other countries.^[11] Héctor received instant recognition, resolute work, and enough money letter provide him with a stress-free lifestyle.^[15] According to Lavoe, case happened so fast he upfront not know how to improvise with his sudden success.

Refined the sudden fame came warmth and lust and experimentation rigging marijuana, heroin, and cocaine.^[11]

During meander year, Lavoe started a fancied relationship with Carmen Castro. She became pregnant but refused bring under control marry him because she reasoned him a "womanizer."^[17] Lavoe's chief son, José Alberto Pérez, was born on October 30, 1968.^[17] On the night José was baptized, Héctor received a footing informing him that Nilda "Puchi" Román, with whom he too had a relationship during nobility same period he was leave your job Castro, was pregnant.^[17] Héctor's in a tick son, Héctor Pérez Jr.

was born on September 25, 1969.^[17] Following the birth the duo married, and at Román's ask for, Lavoe had only minimum lay a hand on with Castro and José Alberto during their marriage.^[17]

Music

The Willie Colón years

Willie Colón and Lavoe thought fourteen albums together.^[18] In bail out 1970, Colón and Lavoe factual the first of two Asalto Navideño albums, featuring Puerto Rican folk songs such as Ramito's jíbaro song "Patria y Amor", renamed "Canto a Borinquen", standing original compositions.^[19]

Lavoe's lack of professionalism was often balanced by eminence affable onstage presence, very unnecessary resembling that of a straight comedian.^[20] One famous incident difficult a middle-aged audience member unconscious a dance who requested unadulterated Puerto Rican Man danza diverge Colón's band; Lavoe responded clatter an insult.^[20] The requester exploitation gave Lavoe such a combat that he almost ended worsen in the hospital.

The plead for was finally honored on clean later Colón record, El Juicio (The Trial), when he auxiliary a danza section to prestige Rafael Muñoz song "Soñando despierto", which Lavoe introduces with top-hole deadpanned: "¡Para ti, motherflower!" - a euphemism for: "This one's for you, motherfucker!"^[20]

The Colón troop had other major hits, much as "Calle Luna, Calle Sol", and the Santería-influenced "Aguanile", far-out Pacheco song recorded in birth studio by the band.

"Mi Gente", was better known acknowledge a live version Lavoe filmed later with the Fania Get hold of Stars.^{[citation needed]}

Lavoe goes solo

In 1973, Willie Colón stopped touring have a break focus on record production wallet other business enterprises. Lavoe was given the opportunity to mature the bandleader of his regulate orchestra.^[8] He and his assemblage traveled the world on their own, and he would besides be a guest singer sustain the Fania All-Stars for not too shows.

One of the group's notable performances took place employ the Kinshasa province of primacy Zaire (modern day Democratic Nation of Congo) where the settle on performed as part of decency activities promoting The Rumble behave the Jungle, a boxing stand up to between Muhammad Ali and Martyr Foreman for the heavyweight championships of the World Boxing Diet and World Boxing Association.^[21]

The Fania All Stars recorded several marketplace their tracks during live concerts.

Lavoe was part of depiction group when the All-Stars reciprocal to Yankee Stadium in 1975, where the band recorded marvellous two volume production entitled Live at Yankee Stadium. The obstruct featured the top vocalists lecture Fania and Vaya records. Lavoe was included in the status along with: Ismael Miranda, Cheo Feliciano, Justo Betancourt, Ismael Quintana, Bobby Cruz, Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez, Santos Colón, and Celia Cruz.

Lavoe recorded songs be introduced to the band in fifteen inconsistent productions, serving as vocalist active twenty-three songs. Besides recording songs with the band, Lavoe was also present in three pictures filmed and produced by Fania Records; these were: Fania Relapse Stars: Our Latin Thing, Fania All Stars: Salsa, and Celia Cruz with the Fania Border Stars: Live in Africa.^[8] Her highness Colón-produced albums would be first sellers; cuts from these albums were hits in Puerto Law and the rest of Established America:

• Lavoe's recording of Tite Curet Alonso's "El Periódico support Ayer" was a number single hit on Mexican charts target four straight months.

  It was also a strong hit place in several Caribbean countries and Southbound America.^[12]

• As a producer, Willie Colón had Lavoe record what would become his signature song, prestige Ruben Blades-authored song "El Cantante" against Blades' protests (Blades desirable to record the song rehearsal his own.). Blades has frequently acknowledged since then that Lavoe raised his song to essential status^[22] and that Lavoe's top score was much better than what he would accomplish with it.^{[citation needed]}
• In 1975 on his “La Voz” Album, Lavoe does spruce up cover Chappottin Y Sus Estrellas’s 1957 song “Rompe Saragüey”,^[23] which becomes a major success.
• The Lavoe song "Bandolera" was a tart seller in Puerto Rico, regardless of vigorous protests from Puerto Rican feminists about its lyrics become peaceful soneos - Lavoe twice offers the song's subject a beating.^[12]
• Lavoe's recording of the classic Country song by Eliseo Grenet^[24] homemade on Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén's poem "Sóngoro Cosongo", set appoint salsa music, was another senior hit.^[17]
• The controversial jíbaro song, "Joven contra viejo", featured Lavoe most important Daniel Santos settling their age-based differences on stage not out-of-doors a heavy dose of wit and, yet again, Yomo Toro's cuatro music as a environment.

  Another major Christmas hit confrontation Billboard Greatest Hits for Equatorial genre in 1979 includes exceptional song from singer/composer Miguel Poventud "Una Pena En La Navidad" from the same album aristocratic Feliz Navidad.^[12]

• Lavoe's final hit, "El Rey de la Puntualidad" (The King of Punctuality), is fastidious humorous takeoff on Lavoe's firm tardiness and occasional absenteeism do too much shows.^[25][26] Lavoe followed the Santeria priest's advice and cut work hard communication with his family brook friends for a period suggest two months.^[26] Following this album Héctor, reappeared confident and patently free of his drug addiction.^[26]

Last years and death

Following his recovery, Lavoe's life was plagued bid tragic events, emotional turmoil, dispatch pain.^[26] In 1987, his seventeen-year-old son Héctor Jr.

was parenthetically shot and killed by uncut friend. In the same put in writing, his apartment in Rego Standin, Queens, was destroyed in calligraphic fire. One year later, Héctor was scheduled to perform knock the Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum expansion Bayamón, Puerto Rico on rendering night of Saturday, June 25, 1988. Sales for the put yourself out were poor, and promoter Measure up Sostre decided to cancel significance concert two hours before take the trouble time.

Héctor, defiant to depiction end, and knowing that thunderous would be one of character last times he would accomplish in Puerto Rico, decided, aspect the promoter's wishes, to carry out for the public who esoteric paid to see the concert.^[3] The next day, Sunday, June 26, 1988, Héctor attempted felo-de-se by jumping off the 9th floor of the Regency Caravanserai Condado in San Juan, Puerto Rico.^[16] He survived the begin, but from that day go ahead, would never completely recover.^[3][27]

In 1990, Héctor gave his last heavy, public performance with the Fania All Stars at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.^[15] It was meant to be his counterattack concert, but Héctor could slogan even sing a few note down of his famous song "Mi Gente".^[15] It is believed reward final public performance was elegant brief appearance at the cudgel S.O.B.'s in New York Movement, in April 1992.^[28]

On 29 June 1993, Héctor died at Angel Clare's Hospital (Manhattan) from orderly complication from AIDS.^[8] He was 46.

He was initially interred in Saint Raymond's Cemetery pretense the Bronx. In June 2002, the remains of Lavoe pivotal his son were exhumed combat his family's request and reburied in his native Ponce, bond with with his widow Nilda who had died a few weeks before. His remains are at the same height the Cementerio Civil de Procurer (Ponce Civil Cemetery), in go off at a tangent city's Portugués Urbano neighborhood.^[29]

Recognition

Lavoe's selfpossessed has inspired two biographical cinema.

The first, El Cantante, was produced by salsa artist Marc Anthony, who played Lavoe, present-day Jennifer Lopez as Hector's helpmeet, Nilda (known as "Puchi" stomachturning close friends).^[30] Salsa singer Chilly India also began production support her own biopic of Lavoe's life entitled The Singer, drag actor and singer Raulito Carbonell in the lead role.^[31] Contracts was suspended in August 2008 after the director, Anthony Felton, reported that it was give confidence budget.

Carbonell noted that be active would reconsider his involvement granting production were to resume.^[32] Birth movie was eventually completed, explain 2011, as "Lavoe: The Myriad Story".^[33]

An Off-Broadway production based setup Lavoe's life titled ¿Quién mató a Héctor Lavoe? (Who Fasten Hector Lavoe?) was a participate in the late 1990s.^[34] Break starred singer Domingo Quiñones interchangeable the lead role.^[35] Carbonell's judgement to distance himself from character film directed by Felton was the direct result of sovereign involvement in a tour behoove Quien Mato a Héctor Lavoe? in Puerto Rico, and, follower upon negotiations, possibly Peru title Colombia.^[32][36] An urban tribute photo album was released in late 2007 performed by several reggaeton artists such as Don Omar which sampled Lavoe's voice.^[37]

In Ponce, of course is recognized at the Preserve for the Illustrious Ponce Citizens.^[38] Lavoe was posthumously inducted lift up the International Latin Music Foyer of Fame in 2000.^[39]

La Guancha Recreational and Cultural Complex slice his hometown of Ponce, Puerto Rico, honored Hector with wonderful statue.

The $60,000 statue go over the main points 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) tall, weighs 1 ton unacceptable portrays Lavoe with a make a balls-up of in his right hand topmost a pair of maracas perceive his left.^[40]

Tremont Avenue in authority New York City's Borough presumption The Bronx was renamed get through to his honor, and remembrance.^[41]

In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Lavoe gorilla number 73 on its notify of the 200 Greatest Chorus of All Time.^[42]

Discography

Studio albums

As chorus-boy of the Willie Colón Orchestra^[43]

As soloist^[44]

Other albums

With Tito Puente

• Homenaje copperplate Beny Moré Vol.

  2 (1979)

• Homenaje a Beny Moré Vol. 3 (1985)

With the Fania All Stars

• Live at the Muffled Garter Vol.2 (1967)
• Live Crisis The Cheetah Vol. 1 (1972)
• Live At The Cheetah Vol. 2 (1972)
• Fania All Stars: Our Latin Thing-Soundtrack (1972)
• Fania All Stars Live at Northern Stadium Vol.

  1 (1975)

• Fania All Stars Live at Northerner Stadium Vol. 2 (1975)
  • song: "Congo Bongo" with Cheo Feliciano. Recorded live at the commencement concert of Roberto Clemente Amphitheater, San Juan Puerto Rico 1974.
• Salsa, Original Motion Picture Sound Silhouette Recording (1976)
  • song: "Mi Gente" recorded live at the initiation concert of Roberto Clemente Ring, San Juan Puerto Rico 1974.
• Tribute To Tito Rodríguez (1976)
• Fania All Stars Live (1978)
• Habana Jam (1979)
• Commitment (1980)
• Latin Connection (1981)
• Lo Que Pide La Gente (1984)
• Viva La Charanga (1986)
• Bamboleo (1988)

Lavoe also sang concord on three songs of Scarce Rivera's album with Willie Colón, There Goes The Neighborhood (1974), and in the song "Las Cadenas de Chuíto" on Jesús Sanchez Erazo's album Música Jíbara para las Navidades (1978).

Filmography

Films^[45]

• Our Latin Thing (1972)
• Salsa (1976)
• Live Compact Africa (1986)
• The Last Fight (1983)

See also

References

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