Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican Republic-born flautist-turned-bandleader and the co-founder of the influential Fania Records, the label that brought salsa to the global mainstream, died on Feb.15 in ...

Latin music luminaries expressed equal measures of profound grief and deep appreciation for Johnny Pacheco, the pioneering bandleader, composer and co-founder of the iconic Fania Records label who ...

Johnny Pacheco played music that made it impossible to sit still. The Dominican-born multi-instrumentalist experimented with different Latin American musical styles, though he was particularly ...

Fania Records, founded in the 1960s by Gerry Masucci and Johnny Pacheco, became the top tropical latin label in the world. Izzy Sanabria had been designing covers for Fania beginning in the late 60s, ...

Johnny Pacheco, a bandleader who championed pachanga dance music in the late 1950s and co-founded Fania Records in 1964, a label that specialized in New York Latin music and paved the way for salsa in ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- In this episode of Tiempo, remembering legendary musician Johnny Pacheco. The salsa pioneer died last week, so far there is no word on the official cause of death. The music ...

By the mid-1960s, the boroughs and inner-city barrios of New York City were a hotbed of cultural change and musical expression. For decades, young Latino musicians had migrated to the city, bringing ...

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 ...

All summer, Cardi B’s hit “I Like It” — which went to No. 1 the week of July 4 — has been introducing a generation of listeners to a Latin classic more than 50 years old: Pete Rodriguez’s “I Like It ...

Johnny Pacheco, one of the founders of the iconic Latin music label Fania Records, died Monday at age 85. Pacheco had been hospitalized in New Jersey for undisclosed reasons, according to Alex Masucci ...

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Pacheco was a prolific songwriter and musical arranger whose work helped fuel the careers of Celia Cruz and Ruben Blades. Fania Records Co-Founder Johnny Pacheco Dies At 85 Johnny Pacheco, one of the ...