CNN — 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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Monday. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Craft Latino celebrates Celia Cruz’s centennial with all-analog 180g vinyl reissues of her classics with Johnny Pacheco, including Son Con Guaguancó and Tremendo Caché. My journey into Latin music has ...

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 ...