Here is the album every fan of Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe is guaranteed to love.

Biography by Craig Harris. A salsa pioneer of the 1970s, and one of the first Fania Records signings.

Trombone player, composer, and bandleader Willie Colón is one of the pioneers of Latin American music. Despite initial criticism, Colón's album El Malo has become known as one of the first albums to feature the "New York Sound" that sparked a renewed interest in Latin music during the 1970s.

William Anthony Colón Román (born April 28, 1950) is a Nuyorican (a New York-born Puerto Rican) salsa musician and social activist. He began his career as a trombonist, and also sings, writes, produces, and acts. He is also involved in the politics of New York City. Willie Colón born in the South Bronx, New York, to American-born parents of Puerto Rican descent.

This article is about the musician. For the football player, see Willie Colon (American football). At the age of 15 he was signed to Fania Records and at 17 he recorded his first album, which ultimately sold more than 300,000 copies. Due to fortuitous events, the main record producer at Fania at the time, Johnny Pacheco, recommended Héctor Lavoe to hi. .He has also acted in films, including roles in Vigilante (1983), The Last Fight (1983) and It Could Happen to You (1994).

Instrumental in creating the sound that became known as salsa, composer and trombone player Willie Colon also did much to cultivate the streetwise urban Latino image adopted by artists today. Colon’s collaborations with Hector Lavoe and Ruben Blades, with whom he recorded the milestone album Sembra, are historic; his album El Malo is a classic testimony to the Nuyorican sound and style of the '70s. Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Over his 50-year musical career, Carlos has sold more than 120 million albums around the world. By the late 1970s he had become the best-selling Brazilian musician in history. In the 1990s, Carlos became the first Latin American artist to sell more albums than The Beatles.

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Willie Colón is often called the OG (Original Gangsta) because of his tongue in cheek album covers. In 2010, The "International Trombone Association" bestowed their Lifetime Achievement Award upon Willie Colón. In their journal they went on to say, "Willie Colón has probably done more than anyone since Tommy Dorsey to keep the trombone before the public. Stylistically they are poles apart, Dorsey representing an ultra-smooth approach, Colón a Hard-edged roughness reportedly inspired by Barry Rogers