El bacalao hector lavoe biography

Hector LaVoe was born Hector Juan Perez, on September 30th, in Ponce, Puerto Rico .

El bacalao hector lavoe biography

"El Cantante De Los Cantantes", as he is affectionately known, came to New York at age 17 with the dream of making it big. With no formal training, the skinny kid from Barrio San Antonio in Ponce caught the ear of Johnny Pacheco.

Pacheco was amazed at the raw talent this young kid had. Because Pacheco already had a singer (Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez) and during those times you only needed one singer. Lavoe only sang sparingly on weekend gigs.

Later Pacheco, who at this time began to recruit musicians and singers for his new Fania label, introduced to Lavoe a young talented trombonist who was in need of a singer.

This gifted trombonist was Willie Colon.

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Colón was in the process of a new recording with Al Santiago's Alegre label when Pacheco saw the potential of Colón and included him on his roster. And as they say "the rest is history".

Lavoe and Colón collaborated for eight