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    1) Salsa legend Willie Colon will perform in the Bronx for the first time in 14 years at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on August 18th. 2) The 62-year-old Bronx native is preparing new arrangements of music that highlight Puerto Rican musical traditions, as well as classics from his 50-year career and 40 albums. 3) Colon hopes to inspire a new generation with his performance and remind audiences of the Bronx's role in the early development of salsa music in the 1930s.

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    1) Salsa legend Willie Colon will perform in the Bronx for the first time in 14 years at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on August 18th. 2) The 62-year-old Bronx native is preparing new arrangements of music that highlight Puerto Rican musical traditions, as well as classics from his 50-year career and 40 albums. 3) Colon hopes to inspire a new generation with his performance and remind audiences of the Bronx's role in the early development of salsa music in the 1930s.

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    1) Salsa legend Willie Colon will perform in the Bronx for the first time in 14 years at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on August 18th. 2) The 62-year-old Bronx native is preparing new arrangements of music that highlight Puerto Rican musical traditions, as well as classics from his 50-year career and 40 albums. 3) Colon hopes to inspire a new generation with his performance and remind audiences of the Bronx's role in the early development of salsa music in the 1930s.

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    1) Salsa legend Willie Colon will perform in the Bronx for the first time in 14 years at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on August 18th. 2) The 62-year-old Bronx native is preparing new arrangements of music that highlight Puerto Rican musical traditions, as well as classics from his 50-year career and 40 albums. 3) Colon hopes to inspire a new generation with his performance and remind audiences of the Bronx's role in the early development of salsa music in the 1930s.

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    language 100 percent, you will enjoy it, Colon says. I will do some of the pattern in English, so they can sing and enjoy. Colon is also excited to play in front of his hometown crowd. He only hopes that it will inspire a new generation of salseros to make the city a center for salsa once again. Once a Bronx boy, always a Bronx boy, says Colon. It is a form of cultural, oral storytelling. The fact that I see young kids enjoying and learning makes me feel that I have done the culture well. Colon hopes to use the full complement of musicians to highlight what he describes as the great acoustics of the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, a theater where he last performed 14 years ago. When people come to this place the first time, they will really be astonished at how good it is, Colon says. It has a nice size, and the sound is really good. The trombonist is arranging some new songs that will be played alongside selections from his 40 albums that span his 50-year career. He has made Nuyoricans proud, selling more than 30 million records worldwide,
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    Willie Colon

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    he Bronx is getting ready to welcome back salsa legend Willie Colon with open arms. Colon, 62, will make his first musical appearance in El Condado de la Salsa in over 14 years at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on August 18. The Bronx-born trombonist is prepping to wow the crowd with newly arranged music, as well as the flair and spice that only the famous salsero can

    add, playing a large set of music that highlights the rich Puerto Rican musical tradition. Im going to have a string section and a large chorus made up of the best musicians around, says Colon. Colon wants people of all walks of life to come and enjoy his music. He has promised a night full of dynamic salsa that will take concert goers back in time to the classic big band style early salseros brought to the city in the early 1930s. Even if you dont understand the

    including 15 gold and five platinum records and 11 Grammy nominations. Colons fans still fondly remember the years when he paired with Puerto Rican salsa legend Hector LaVoe, and they became part of the Fania AllStars in the late 70s. In 1978, his collaboration with the Panamanian-born salsero Ruben Blades in Siembra was the best selling Salsa/Tropical album of all time. We became more than music, Colon says. We became a movement. It was something that unified Latinos. Part of my mission was to become a Latino to prove to the guys on the island that I was one of them. I was able to achieve that thanks to Hector. It is that feeling of joy and unity that he wants to convey to the crowd at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, and he only asks the crowd to do one thing: Come with your ears ready, he says. You will enjoy it and be really surprised. Colon performs at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West in the Bronx, on August 18 at 8 p.m. For tickets, call (718) 960 8833 or go online to www.lehmancenter.org. [email protected]

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