Polito Vega, Salsa ‘King’ of New York Radio, Dies at 84

nytimes.com/2023/03/18/arts/music/polito-vega-dead.html

The veteran New York disc jockey Polito Vega in the WSKQ studio in 2009. “Vega’s importance to Latin music,” one historian said, “cannot be overstated.”

In a career that began in 1960, the Puerto Rico-born Mr. Vega became, one admirer said, “the architect of Hispanic radio at a global level.”
Polito Vega, an exuberant announcer with a booming bass voice and a finely attuned…

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