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Sergio Leone is best known for his Westerns, including classics like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). However, he is lesser known for his sprawling ...

It was first a bestselling novel, then a movie and now “Wonder” has been turned into a musical. This story, which recently finished its run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, tells the ...

Harry Styles will be doing double duty on March 14 when he returns to "Saturday Night Live" as both host and musical guest. This will be Styles' seventh "SNL" appearance.

Willie Colón, a salsa music legend and pioneer of Latin American music, has died. He was 75. Colón’s family announced his death on social media Saturday. He died in New York after reportedly being ...

His first album, 1967’s El Malo, sold over 300,000 copies, and Colón later became one of the best-selling salsa artists of all time. His work combined funk, jazz, R&B, Latin rhythms, and the political ...

For five years, Javier Jara taught music at Manor Middle School in Manor, Texas, to a mostly Latino student population. Jara ...

Salsa legend Willie Colón has died at the age of 75.

Washington [US], February 22: Salsa pioneer Willie Colon, the towering trombonist, arranger, composer and producer who helped define the sound of Latin music in the 1970s, died on Saturday. He was 75.

While we grieve his absence, we also rejoice in the timeless gift of his music and the cherished memories he created that ...

One of salsa music's most towering figures is gone — the Grammy-nominated trombonist and activist died Saturday at 75.(115 ...