NORFOLK, Va. — Willie Colón, the musician and social activist who helped pioneer Salsa music in the 1960s and 70s at Fania Records, is currently being treated at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital ...

Salsa music star Willie Colon survived a “life threatening” accident while driving his motor home in North Carolina last week and was hospitalized in serious but stable condition. The Bronx-bred ...

Legendary Fania trombonist, vocalist and bandleader Willie Colón read our recent post about the 50th anniversary of Fania Records and contacted us, wanting to comment further. MORE: Salsers supplanted ...

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Few mayoral candidates have a Grammy-winning trombonist writing jingles for their campaigns. But Bill Thompson has salsa legend Willie Colon composing paeans in his corner. Colon spoke with City & ...

One of the can’t-miss releases of this spring’s Record Store Day was a deluxe reissue of Willie Colón’s 1971 masterpiece, La Gran Fuga, a defining moment for both New York’s pioneering Fania Records ...

Bandleader, singer, composer, trombonist, Grammy winner, political activist, and living legend Willie Colón has done it all. He cut his first album, El Malo, at the age of seventeen with vocalist ...