Hector Lavoe : discography
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News about Hector Lavoe
Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony star in El Cantante , a colourful but uninspired biopic of Hector Lavoe, vocal hero of the Seventies salsa scene in New York.
Source : topix.net | 2008-09-11 06:47:06.0
Dance class with J-Lo in El Cantante
Michael London, El Cantante Cert: 15 Charlotte O'Sullivan's rating Description: Biopic charting the rise and fall of salsa legend Hector Lavoe, who died of AIDS after a long and turbulent relationship with ...
Source : topix.net | 2008-09-04 18:00:00.0
Lavoe, a victim of his own success
BORN in 1946 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Hector Lavoe - Hector Juan Perez Martinez - came from a musical family.
Source : topix.net | 2008-06-04 06:02:42.0
Jennifer Lopez hogs the limelight in this biopic about Latino singer Hector Lavoe, writes PHILLIP ALTBEKER EL CANTANTE tells the mostly true story of the rise and fall of Hector Lavoe, the Puerto Rican singer ...
Source : topix.net | 2008-06-02 05:43:00.0
The gritty story of the late Hector Lavoe, the tortured artist and relentless junkie who died of Aids in 1993 at age 46, hit theatres in the US last weekend in the form of El Cantante, a new biopic starring ...
Source : topix.net | 2008-05-31 01:20:02.0
CD/Download Release: Veteran Latin-Jazz Arranger Marty Sheller to...
"Three bands were doing it: Hugo Dickens, Pucho, and Joe Panama. Many musicians from these bands went on to become very influential in the Latin and Latin-jazz scene."
Marty Sheller's long and busy career as a valued arranger-composer-producer for many of the biggest names in Latin jazz and salsa music--including Tito Puente, Willie Coln, Ruben Blades, Hector Lavoe, Larry ... via All About Jazz
Source : topix.net | 2008-01-25 10:50:53.0
"The Three Stooges Collection: Volume One - 1934-36."
EL CANTANTE . Real-life marrieds Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony star in this story of drug addiction, family tragedy and other adversity in the lives of salsa star Hector Lavoe and his wife. via The Cincinnati Enquirer
Source : topix.net | 2007-11-04 11:55:16.0
'Cantante' finds partner in Moviehouse
Film News: Salsa film to star Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez -- London-based sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights to "El Cantante," the biopic of Puerto Rican salsa music pioneer Hector Lavoe. Picturehouse Entertainment released the movie Stateside over the summer.
Source : variety.com | 2007-11-04 00:20:44.0
DVD Review: El Cantante
Hector Lavoe is a music legend, and this biographical movie starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez is full of the
Source : monstersandcritics.com | 2007-10-31 16:47:17.0
David Cazares on the Latin/World beat
"This way, when he does fall, the movie viewer will understand him better and empathize with his character."
El Cantante , the movie about salsa giant Hector Lavoe, has sparked a fierce debate in New York City, Puerto Rico and beyond. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Source : topix.net | 2007-09-10 00:34:32.0
Fast-Paised review: 'El Cantante'
"It's not that you were late. It's just he was always too early."
Puerto Rican singer Hector Lavoe becomes a quick star, marries loudmouth Puchi , does a lot of drugs and dies. via Chicago Tribune
Source : topix.net | 2007-09-05 23:52:51.0
"El Cantante de los Cantantes: Hector Lavoe."
The salsa singer puts sass and style into songs from the movie he stars in, "El Cantante." MARC ANTHONY "El Cantante: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture" * * * * Forget, for a moment, his ... via Kansas.com
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-27 02:51:01.0
Fania serving up the salsa with Lavoe reissues
"The great thing we've learned is it never is too early or too late to connect with this music"
Hector Lavoe, dead for a decade, is today the most popular name on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart, thanks to "El Cantante," the film based on his life, starring Marc Anthony. via XtraMSN Real Estate
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-26 02:02:46.0
Fania serving up the salsa with Lavoe reissues
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hector Lavoe, dead for a decade, is
today the most popular name on Billboard's Top Latin Albums
chart, thanks to "El Cantante," the film based on his life,
starring Marc Anthony.
Source : Yahoo! News | 2007-08-25 04:30:22.0
El Cantante: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture / Marc Anthony
"El Cantante". Jennifer Lopez, Anthony's wife in the film and in real life, appears on the pop ballad "Toma de Mi"
Marc Anthony plays the role of Hector Lavoe in El Cantante , the film biopic of the famous salsa musician. via New Music
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-22 21:43:18.0
Rating: ** Ask any Latino on the Lower East Side of New York who Hector Lavoe was, you'll get a speech. via The Globe and Mail
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-18 15:55:28.0
Movie Review: El Cantante El Cantante is el contentious. The musical biopic of superstar Hector Lavoe has already annoyed the salsa cognoscenti, various writers of Puerto Rican descent, a handful of people who ... via CANOE
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-18 09:14:50.0
Tell-little biography a faux flop
It's possible to spend an hour and 50 minutes with somebody while he talks about himself and others talk nonstop about him, yet learn virtually nothing about the guy. 'El Cantante' is proof.
It's a biography of salsa singer Hector Lavoe, who moved from Puerto Rico to New York City as a 17-year-old in 1963. Within a week, he was singing with a band. By the time he died in 1993, he had been a prime mover in the Latino musical gumbo known as salsa, despite an unhappy marriage and liberal intake of alcohol, cocaine, pot and heroin. Read more
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-17 08:45:44.0
Lopez, Anthony partner on biopic
Marc Anthony tells a hilarious story about the first time he met salsa sensation Hector Lavoe, whom he portrays in the feature film El Cantante , which opens in Canadian theatres tomorrow. via Globe and Mail
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-16 13:20:45.0
Music break: Hector Lavoe, El Cantante
The late, great salsa singer Hector Lavoe is the subject of a new Hollywood film, called El Cantante. via B and B
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-12 15:57:18.0
Jennifer Lopez Covering the Spotlight?
"I never understood why he put up with such a negative, homely, vulgar person. The biggest crime is the canonization of Puchi so that Jennifer can play her."
Does anyone else think that maybe, just maybe Jennifer Lopez is taking her role as Puchi as more important than the role of Hector Lavoe and in the process trying to one up hubby Marc Anthony? The co-star of el ... via VivirLatino
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-10 15:31:16.0
Review: 'El Cantante': A Latin music fest with a sagging plot
The film, directed by Leon Ichaso, chronicles the life of the salsa singer Hector Lavoe, played by Marc Anthony. Ichaso's generosity with musical moments compensates both for Anthony's shortcomings and for the frenetic incoherence of his own storytelling.
Source : International Herald Tribune | 2007-08-09 17:12:42.0
CD Reviews: El Cantante - Hector Lavoe and Marc Anthony
Even though the pre-release buzz about the film El Cantante has not been particularily good, I was optimistic and excited to see the movie depicting the life of salsa great...
Source : about.com | 2007-08-07 20:16:57.0
The Plot: See Hector Lavoe's life through the 1970s and '80s and how he formed and changed not just the salsa scene, but all of music. via The Wave
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-07 14:14:55.0
Soundtrack can't muffle cliches
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez are all dressed up and ready to rumble, musically speaking, in 'El Cantante.' But this musical biography of salsa sensation Hector Lavoe (1946-1993), 'The Voice,' turns out to be nothing special. Well, the music is. The storytelling is not. What is it about the biopic genre that gravitates toward the same sea of cliches, no matter what the sound or era? Films as dissimilar as 'Ray,' 'La Vie En Rose' and this one make for lovely soundtracks. But you'd want them mostly as a reward for having dutifully done your time at the multiplex and receiving the standard catalog of setbacks, chemical or otherwise, in place of a living, breathing dramatic treatment of a complicated life. Lavoe, who died of AIDS-related complications after a ravagingly indulgent life, shared a lot of needles and did a lot of blow and won a lot of hearts in his career. 'He always knew it was going to happen for him,' Lopez, in sort-of-older-lady makeup, tells a 'Behind the Music'-type interviewer in 'El Cantante.' This is the framing device: Lopez, as Puchi Lavoe, diving into her memories and flashing an angry set of peepers when those memories are challenged or the grief becomes too much. Director and co-writer Leon Ichaso, who has done biopics of Jimi Hendrix (for TV) and playwright Miguel Pinero (on screen), ping-pongs between flashbacks to early 1960s Puerto Rico and Lavoe's meteoric party groove in Manhattan and elsewhere. The mid-'80s, Lopez says in voiceover, were the end of the good times. The bad times came like rain for Lavoe: Career setbacks paled next to the drugs, the affairs, the accidental shooting death of son Tito, and constant tension of being two people in one worn-out body, a Puerto Rican and a New Yorker, a crossover artist whose attractively insolent way with a confessional ballad was never as much fun as the up-tempo numbers. The performance footage in 'El Cantante' makes a weird mistake in shooting every musical sequence, on a stage or in a studio, in exactly the same style, no matter where we are in the story. What juice there is comes from its stars. It's fun to see Lopez loosen up and sling it a little; her acting has real energy and brass here, and based on the available evidence it seems clear Anthony is a more stimulating co-star for her than, say, Ben Affleck. Anthony certainly has the pipes for Lavoe, and he pours his heart and lungs into his own numbers. But he's a mild screen presence, and the dramatic scenes he's given are just padding. The VH1 documentary conceit at work here becomes all too apt before long; like so many episodes of that show, 'El Cantante' only delivers the surface of the music, leaving the 'behind' part way, way behind. Read more
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-06 03:57:00.0
New Latin Music Releases for August, 2007
Domingo Quinones - Quien Mato A Hector Lavoe? - 7/31
Who Killed Hector Lavoe? played off-Broadway in the late 1990s with Dominigo Quinones singing the part of the late, lamented...
Source : about.com | 2007-08-04 02:44:24.0
Anthony says working with J.Lo was easy
(AP)
AP - Marc Anthony says he was prepared for the worst when working with his wife, Jennifer Lopez, on their new film, "El Cantante," a biopic of salsa legend Hector Lavoe.
Source : Yahoo! News | 2007-08-03 18:56:55.0
El Cantante Director Hopes to Turn Snipes Into Monk
EL CANTANTE director LEON ICHASO is hoping to follow up his HECTOR LAVOE biopic with a new film study of jazz great THELONIOUS MONK. via ContactMusic.com
Source : topix.net | 2007-08-01 06:47:57.0
Leon Ichaso captures the poetry of Latin New York in new film
The Cuban-born filmmaker directs "El Cantante," based on the life of Héctor Lavoe, a popular Puerto Rican salsero who died of AIDS at 46 in 1993. He chronicles the Latin music boom of the 1960s in the film, starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez.
Source : International Herald Tribune | 2007-07-30 16:30:48.0
Marc & J Lo In Puerto Rico For Premiere
"Everyone will scrutinize whether it was done well or badly, whether we made a mistake here or there."
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe.
The husband-and-wife team were co-stars in the biopic: Anthony starred as the famed but troubled Puerto Rican singer and Lopez played the singer's long-suffering wife, Puchi. The couple, whose families are from Puerto Rico, arrived on a private jet from New York.
The film took five years to complete and faced its ultimate test here, said director Leon Ichaso, a Cuban. Read more
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-25 20:33:56.0
Marc & J Lo In Puerto Rico For Premiere
"Everyone will scrutinize whether it was done well or badly, whether we made a mistake here or there."
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe.
The husband-and-wife team were co-stars in the biopic: Anthony starred as the famed but troubled Puerto Rican singer and Lopez played the singer's long-suffering wife, Puchi. The couple, whose families are from Puerto Rico, arrived on a private jet from New York.
The film took five years to complete and faced its ultimate test here, said director Leon Ichaso, a Cuban. Read more
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-25 20:33:56.0
Lopez, Anthony in Puerto Rico for 'El Cantante ' showing
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe. The husband-and-wife tea...
Source : caribbeanherald.com | 2007-07-24 06:16:41.0
Lopez, Anthony in Puerto Rico for 'El Cantante ' showing
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe. The husband-and-wife tea...
Source : Trinidad Times | 2007-07-24 06:16:41.0
Lopez, Anthony Arrive in Puerto Rico
"Everyone will scrutinize whether it was done well or badly, whether we made a mistake here or there."
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe. via Fox News
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-24 04:11:32.0
Lopez, Anthony Arrive in Puerto Rico
"Everyone will scrutinize whether it was done well or badly, whether we made a mistake here or there."
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe. via Fox News
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-24 04:11:32.0
Lopez, Anthony Arrive in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe.
Source : venezuelastar.com | 2007-07-24 04:08:02.0
Lopez, Anthony Arrive in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez arrived in Puerto Rico Monday to attend the opening of "El Cantante," a film biography of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe.
Source : caribbeanherald.com | 2007-07-24 04:08:02.0
"When you hear Hctor sing, you hear the history of Latin music"
El Cantante captures the icon of Latin music, Hector Lavoe. Lavoe was a Salsa legend. via New York Daily News
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-16 11:13:47.0
"When you hear Hctor sing, you hear the history of Latin music"
El Cantante captures the icon of Latin music, Hector Lavoe. Lavoe was a Salsa legend. via New York Daily News
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-16 11:13:47.0
Marc Anthony Comes Close, but is no Lavoe
Not even the shorest glimpse of the movie El Cantante is not necessary to understand Marc Anthony is no Hector Lavoe. via Miami New Times
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-13 17:05:28.0
Top New Releases - July, 2007
Marc Anthony - El Cantante - 7/24
The biopic El Cantante, depicting the life of Hector Lavoe and starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, is due to be released August...
Source : about.com | 2007-07-09 13:47:33.0
Married couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are planning a joint tour across America following the August release of El Cantante , their biopic of salsa star Hector Lavoe . via Starpulse News Blog
Source : topix.net | 2007-07-09 08:06:23.0
New York International Latino Film Festival
I don't usually write about film, but the film El Cantante is really all about music - the music of Hector Lavoe. The film, starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez,...
Source : about.com | 2007-06-21 14:25:42.0