Latin Record Label Polishes Up Its Gold

“”Cheo” is one of 30 discs reissued recently by the seminal record label Fania. The company, which can be best described as the Latin version of Motown, changed hands last year and has undertaken a groundbreaking remastering and repackaging campaign. The new Fania will reissue about a dozen releases a month until it reaches a self-imposed ceiling of 300 discs culled from the label’s catalogue of 1,300 albums.

Notable artists in the Fania canon include Tito Puente, Celia Cruz (at her vocal peak of the mid-’70s to early ’80s) and recently deceased conguero Ray Barretto, as well as the holy trinity of salsa: singer-songwriter Rubén Blades, vocalist Héctor Lavoé and trombonist, arranger and composer Willie Colón.”

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