Salsa was created when The Fania All Stars band added a dynamic New York flavour to the rhythms of Cuba and Puerto Rico. "It offered a music we could live by, breathe and make love to: it was the ...

"Not very fluent, but I did get by." He and artists like Willie Colon and Celia Cruz collaborated to create the salsa supergroup Fania All-Stars. Their iconic, incomparable sound still resonates.

A Panamanian singer-songwriter, he arrived in New York in the early ‘70s, got a job in the Fania mailroom and from there persuaded some of the label’s stars ... and sell all of them.