Joe Arroyo obituary

Colombian star of the 1980s salsa revivalJoe Arroyo, the Colombian salsa singer, who has died of multiple organ failure aged 55, used to tell the story of how he was discovered singing in a brothel at the age of eight by the local bishop and persuaded to join the church choir instead. Arroyo never said what the bishop had been doing in the brothels of Colombia's northern Caribbean coast, but he himself never looked back. By 12 he was singing with a band in a hotel, and in 1971 made his debut wit...

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