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 ...

NEW YORK — Hispanic heritage is celebrated every day in East Harlem, where Fania Records started six decades ago. The Latin music label is still spreading the spirit of the neighborhood to the rest of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, a New York musician and his lawyer friend started a small record label that would become a global brand, taking salsa music from... On Fania Records And The Music That Made It Matter ...

For aficionados of Latin music in the 1960s and 70s, Fania Records was considered “The Motown of Salsa.” Based in New York, it was infused with that city’s rich makeup of Latin cultures and style. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, New York City musician Johnny Pacheco and his lawyer friend Jerry Masucci started a small Latin music record label and delivered their first albums to record stores across the city — ...