Maybe it was your uncle with the weird salsa moves, or your older cousin, the one who danced like a man possessed, who told you about their salsa heroes — Mongo Santamaría, Johnny Pacheco, Cali Alemán ...

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 ...

For the third installment of The FADER’s remix project with the legendary Latin label Fania––in which we enlist some of our favorite musicians to reinterpret classics from their celebrated ...

Although both of his parents were full-blooded Puerto Ricans, Ray Barretto was as American as they come. Born in Brooklyn, by the age of seven he had already resided in that borough, as well as ...

Fania Records was as much a social movement as it was a musical phenomenon. Blasting out of New York's Latino community for almost two decades from the 1960s through the 1980s, Fania was synonymous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late Johnny Pacheco, shown performing in 1988, said of his Fania All-Stars: "I wanted to have the best orchestra ever." (Frans ...

Its founders went from flogging LPs from a car to defining a genre in the late 60s. As a box set is released, manager Harvey Averne and star Joe Bataan recall those heady days in East Harlem The ...

Iconic Latin music label Fania will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with decade-specific digital compilations of its greatest hits and the first Latin music app for Spotify. It has also ...

The history of Fania Records is synonymous with the history of the Latin — music we now know as "salsa." It's also considered Latin music's Motown. — The irony is that both labels started in the early ...

If the New York salsa scene were its own galaxy — a glittering cluster where artists from across the Caribbean and the United States orbited around one another in a feverish dance — the late Johnny ...