Rubén Blades, the venerable salsa singer/songwriter/actor, is eyeing the Los Angeles-based Nacional Records as a possible home for his new music By Justino Aguila Rubén Blades, the venerable salsa ...

MIAMI (Billboard) - Record label Fania, the most recognizable name in tropical music, is poised for a new phase. Since the acquisition of all its assets by Codigo Group in May, the label has revamped ...

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 ...

The Fania All-Stars player and record-label impresario worked with Latin music giants including Celia Cruz and fostered a more intense, political salsa sound Johnny Pacheco, the co-founder of ...

Fania Records is frequently touted as the Motown of Latin music, but in some ways that undersells the story of the record label’s extraordinary rise, fall, disappearance, and eventual resurrection.

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 ...