Willie Colón is a Latino-American recording artist who has been credited as a founder of modern salsa, and has helped launch the careers of influential and world-renowned Latin musicians such as Rubén Blades and Hector Lavoe. Colón is also one of the most prominent musical figures (along with Blades) responsible for the birth of La Nueva Canción (New Song) movement , a socially conscious and musically modern salsa style.
Since the early 1970s and the inception of the contemporary...