Ralph Mercado, a promoter who took his passion for Latin music and built an empire around it, not only staging concerts but creating a recording and publishing label, a film and video company, and nightclubs and restaurants, died on Tuesday in Hackensack, N.J. He was 67. The cause was cancer, said Blanca Lasalle, a spokeswoman, [...]

In 1977, when Hector Lavoe left Willie Colón to pursue a solo career, many feared that Willie will never be able to find a comparable collaborator. Eventually, he teamed up with Rubén Blades and took his career in a different direction. Their collaboration brought about many new classics most of the written by Rubén. Eventually, [...]