Ten-time Grammy-nominated salsa star Willie Colón has died. The trombone player with Puerto Rican roots grew up in New York, where he was exposed to Latin American music from a young age.
"Willie didn't just change salsa; he expanded it, politicized it, dressed it in an urban narrative and took it to scenes where it had never been heard before," Colón's manager Pietro Carlos wrote on social media, according to the AP.
Colón was 75.
