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I think the whole essence of the movie was to demonstrate his electricity as a singer, but moreso show the real Hector, as in; the drug-addicted crappy husband & father who needed to be sobered up multiple times a day. Basically, the guy behind the mic. Who better to show that then Puchi? At least, that's what I got from it.

From a success/audience perspective, Hector Lavoe is only known really in Spanish circles and people who know music. Johnny Cash and Ray Charles are known by EVERYONE regardless of their tastes in music, so their life stories were easier to bring to the big screen. It didn't do so well because of the quality or the acting or the marketing, IMO, it was just that not enough people knew who he was. And doing interviews and trying to convince people he's important isn't enough.

It kind of reminds me of that movie Kinsey from maybe 5 years ago, I think Liam Neeson played Kinsey himself. Anyways, he's extremely important in the psychology/psychiatric world for his work in sex therapy, but unless you are interested in that subject, it won't matter to you. But I imagine to the people who knew his work and like Liam Neeson, they loved the film.