Interesting facts about salsa history and other random stuff….
Hector Lavoe and Papo Luca went to high school together.- Roberto Roena was also a baseball player.
- Fania Records was founded by Johnny Pacheco (a musician) and Jerry Masucci (a lawyer).
- Frankie Ruiz was a fan of the orchestra “La Solucion” and knew all of the songs and lyrics. One day the lead singer didn’t show up, and he stepped in - and the rest is history.
- Ruben Blades has a Master’s Law degree from Harvard University.
- Andy Montañez started out as a singer for the famous “El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico”.
- The first salsa congress was held in Puerto Rico in 1997.
- Hector Lavoe’s real name is Hector Juan Perez. However, because Hector admired Felipe Rodriguez, a famous singer of ballads who’s nickname was “La Voz” (the voice), his current promoter gave Hector his stage last name of “Lavoe”. Lavoe is a pronounciation derivative of the phrase “La Voz” that takes into account the Puerto Rican accent of pronouncing “La Voz” as “La Voh”.
Do you know any other fun facts?
Now, you might notice that when I’m slow in writing articles - its probably because I’m doing something else on the website (like making a podcast - remember, I do have a day job 
). Anyways, I’m pretty happy with this episode because I’m a big fan of listening to live music.
In this episode of Addicted2Salsa podcast, we take a look at some songs performed live during various events, and I’ll give you some tips how to survive dances that are at live events (with a live band). This is because live songs tend to be much longer and different than the songs you practice with.
In this Episode, here is the song list:
Listen to Salsa Music 24 : Dancing to Live Salsa Music
So, I have decided to change things up a bit. This is our first audio podcast episode. Again, first episodes are always very….low quality because we are still figuring things out (If you ever see our salsa video episodes 1-4, and compare them to 12-19 — you’ll see the difference). Anyway, feedback is always useful to make the content better.
Here is the salsa music guide as: (the song in parenthesis is the background playing song)
- (Intro) Lalo Rodriguez : (Devorame Otra Vez)
- Hector Lavoe : (Barrunto), Todo Tiene Su Final
- Willie Colon: (Idilio), La Murga
- Justo Betancourt: Pa’Bravo Yo
- Frankie Ruiz : A bunch of mixes
- Andy Montanez : Payaso
- El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico : (La Muerte - Live) Me Libere
- Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz : (Agúzate)
Listen to : The Classic Salsa Dance Songs
