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This recent article details the return of the great '70's salsa label, Fania:

In its heyday, from the late 1960's through the 70's, Fania, like Motown, had a superstar-packed roster, a virtual monopoly on salsa's A-list: Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, Hector Lavoe, Johnny Pacheco, Rubén Blades, Eddie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, Bobby Valentin, Larry Harlow and other greats. Like Motown, Fania began as a humble cottage industry -- its releases were once sold out of the trunk of a car on the streets of Harlem and the Bronx -- and became a multimillion-dollar business that carried a bracing musical hybrid to the nation and the world.

''Fania is the catalog of salsa music, an unmatched body of recordings,'' said David Garcia, an assistant professor of music at the University of North Carolina and an expert on Latin music. Larry Harlow, the keyboardist and bandleader who produced and arranged many of Fania's classic records (his 1979 album ''Yo Soy Latino'' is among the first reissued Fania CD's), called the label's output ''a chronological biography of the whole Latin music scene from the mid-60's through the early 80's.'' Fania, Mr. Harlow said, ''is Latin music.''

Check it out and support great musica salsa !!

You can buy the latest Fania re-releases here.

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