Hector Lavoe - El Cantante

Length: 10:31

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Héctor Lavoe was just seven years old when he skipped trombone class at the Juan Morel Music Academy and flew off to the Portugués River, where he skinny-dipped with his friends from the modest Machuelitos neighborhood of his hometown. This was post-war Ponce, still years from modernization, and like many other cities in Puerto Rico, the capital city could make few promises for a better future. The economy was fundamentally agrarian, and aside from the few opportunities to work on sugar cane