Salsa Innovator Willie Colón Dies at 75

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Photo: Johnny Louis/Getty Images Legendary salsa musician Willie Colón died Saturday, February 21. He was 75. His longtime manager, Pietro Carlos, broke the news in a statement on Facebook . “We’ve lost an architect of the New York sound, a trombonist who made metal his banner and wrote enteral chapters in our musical history,” he wrote. “Willie didn’t just change salsa; he expanded it, politicized it, clothed it in urban chronicles, and took it to stages where it hadn’t been heard before. His

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