Salsa Music Pioneer Willie Colón Dies at 75 – Entertainment News

By Karen Beishuizen

A Music Great Has Left Us.

Willie Colón, the trombonist and orchestra leader, died on Saturday, 21 February. He was 75.

William Anthony Colón Román was born on April 28, 1950 in South Bronx, New York to Puerto Rican parents.

In 1967, at 16, he recorded his first album “El Malo”.

After releasing 40 albums during his career, Colón also became known as a social activist who supported the Latino Commission on AIDS and the United Nations Immigrant Foundation.