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Fania Records has a singular place in music history, mostly because it practically gave birth to the genre that became known as salsa. The musicians, singers, composers and arrangers who made music ...

Before it fell on hard times, Fania Records was once the 20th century's Latin music's equivalent to the "Motown" label. The label's 50-year journey from cultural touchstone to obscurity—and now back ...

Michael Rucker got to play the Santa of Salsa this holiday season. As director of marketing for Miami-based Latin music label Emusica, Rucker spent much of his time delivering promo copies of the ...

The Fania label was founded in 1964 by Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci and Dominican-born musician Johnny Pacheco. Pacheco and Puerto Rican-American pianist Eddie Palmieri, both considered ...

The most eminent record label in the salsa world has a story to tell, a story of diverse influences, and intercultural dialogue between the United States and Latin America. But above all, it’s a story ...

Craft Recordings has some sizzling music available for pre-order this weekend. A comprehensive box set of Fania singles that will be gone very quickly. This one is bound to get your toes tapping.

MIAMI (Billboard) - 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.

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...