Hector Lavoe - El Cantante: The Originals
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Artist: Hector LavoeEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-07-03
Music Label: Fania
Soundtracks:
- El Cantante
- Mi Gente
- Che Che Cole
- Periodico De Ayer
- El Dia De Suerte
- Que Lio
- Aguanile
- Todo Tiene Su Final
- T�º Bien Lo Sabes
- Plato De Segunda Mesa
- No Hay Quien Te Aguante
- Paraiso De Dulzura
- Llore
- Mi Gente (Louie Vega EOL Remix-Radio Edit)
Music reviews of El Cantante: The Originals
Music Review: Great CD
Rating: 5 Stars
This album has Héctor Lavoe's best songs and some of salsa's greatest songs period! If you love salsa you have to own this CD. Some of my favorites: "Mi gente", "Aguanile", and "Che Che Colé". I grew up with my dad playing his "Comedia" album on Sundays. Héctor Lavoe's voice is one of a kind. I saw the movie starring Marc Anthony as Héctor and Jennifer López as his wife. Liked the movie a lot and all the songs from the movie are on this album done by the maestro himself -- no covers by Marc Anthony. ¡Cómpralo! ¡No se lo va a arrepentir!
Description of El Cantante: The Originals
Héctor Lavoé continues to be source of tributes, covers, drama, and films. This collection of carefully remastered original songs affirms that the attention is well deserved. It features some of the classic hits he recorded together with Willie Colón, such as the rhythmically inventive "Che Che Colá" and "Aguanile." "Mi Gente" was the song in live performances that would celebrate his direct connection and empathy with people. "El Cantante," written for Lavoé by Rubén Blades, is reflective of his love for his vocation as a singer for the people. "El Dia De Suerte," "Todo Tiene Su Final," "Lloré," and "Plato de Segunda Mesa" are songs that speak about how to cope with bad luck, fate, death, betrayal, suffering, and uncertainty. These were all ingredients to Héctor's life, yet there is nothing sad in the music. On the contrary, his music is a celebration of life that inspires dancing. The influence of Lavoé will continue to be felt in the Latin music world, but nothing beats listening to this remastered original.Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993) was born Héctor Juan Pérez in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and became known to his fans simply as El Cantante (the singer). His hectic career began when he moved to New York City as a teenager and headlined with Willie Colôn's band and, later, with the Fania All-Stars. But despite a series of hits that culminated in a 1987 Grammy nomination for his final album, Strikes Back, his posthumous reputation was not nearly so widespread as it deserved to be. Then, in 2006, he became the subject of a film biography, also called El Cantante, which is now available on DVD. Starring the modern Latin-and-crossover superstar Marc Anthony, and featuring his pop star wife, Jennifer Lopez, as Lavoe's long-suffering and endlessly loyal mate, Nilda "Puchi" Roman, it captures much of the gritty, mesmerizing yet poetic urban ambience that launched his tragic but ultimately triumphant legacy. The present album gathers together several of Lavoe's most iconic tunes, many of which were covered by Anthony in the movie. However, with all due props to the younger artist, Lavoe's own interpretations are still the ones to beat. Showcased in selections composed by Johnny Pacheco and Rubén Blades, among others, and produced by Willie Colôn, his lifelong friend and collaborator, his creamy, resonant tenor, flawless phrasing, and improvisatory zeal are so incandescently organic that he never seems to break a sweat--even as he wrings every possible iota of lyric, rhythmic and emotional truth from each tune. --Christina Roden
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