Hector Lavoe wasn't just a Puerto Rican singer with giant funky gold-rimmed glasses, a violent marriage to a crazy woman named "Puchi", and more money in coke than Neville Isdell (he's the CEO of Coca Cola, in case your subscription to Forbes is on hold for non-payment). He was a Salsa god long before Marc Anthony immortalized him in startlingly close resemblance. Born in Ponce, Lavoe moved to New York at the age of 17; he was born to be a musician. Within his first week in the Big Apple he
