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  "title": "El Cantante",
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    "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/hector-lavoe/"
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  "year": 1978,
  "label": "Fania",
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      "name": "Salsa",
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      "whyItMatters": "Written by Blades for Lavoe: the singer everyone comes to hear, whom nobody asks how he is. Given what happened to Lavoe afterwards, it is hard to hear now."
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      "whyItMatters": "Rubén Blades wrote it for Lavoe: the singer everybody comes to hear and nobody asks how he is. Full Fania horns, a floor-filler at every party since, and a man describing his own disappearance in the middle of it."
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