Polito Vega, Salsa ‘King’ of New York Radio, Dies at 84
Polito Vega, an exuberant announcer with a booming bass voice and a finely attuned ear whose Spanish-language shows popularized salsa music in New York in the mid-1960s, died on March 9 in North Bergen, N.J. He was 84. His death was announced by his family. No cause was given. After abandoning his dreams of becoming…