{"id":66967,"date":"2026-02-21T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/us-salsa-legend-willie-colon-vocalist-trombonist-and-composer-dies-aged-75\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:55:32","slug":"us-salsa-legend-willie-colon-vocalist-trombonist-and-composer-dies-aged-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/us-salsa-legend-willie-colon-vocalist-trombonist-and-composer-dies-aged-75\/","title":{"rendered":"US salsa legend Willie Col\u00f3n, vocalist, trombonist and composer, dies aged 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Col\u00f3n\u2019s music combined jazz, rock and salsa, incorporating rhythms from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Africa<\/p>\n<p>Willie Col\u00f3n, the pioneering trombonist, vocalist and composer, died on Saturday aged 75, his family has said.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 30m albums sold, multiple platinum records and 11 combined Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations, Col\u00f3n is among the most successful salsa artists of all time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/willie-colon-music-salsa-dead-aged-75\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col\u00f3n\u2019s music combined jazz, rock and salsa, incorporating rhythms from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Africa Willie Col\u00f3n, the pioneering trombonist, vocalist and composer, died on Saturday aged 75, his family has said. With more than 30m albums sold, multiple platinum records and 11 combined Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations, Col\u00f3n is among the most &#8230; <a title=\"US salsa legend Willie Col\u00f3n, vocalist, trombonist and composer, dies aged 75\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/us-salsa-legend-willie-colon-vocalist-trombonist-and-composer-dies-aged-75\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US salsa legend Willie Col\u00f3n, vocalist, trombonist and composer, dies aged 75\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}