The rise and fall of salsa singer Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s, Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce, Puerto ...

You would think that a musical biopic would show what made Hector Lavoe the so-called king of salsa music in the 1970s. "El Cantante," the title of the film which is Spanish for "the singer," tells ...