Los Angeles Times: Lopez took his love of the music to Pepperdine University’s radio station before he transferred to Loyola Marymount University in the 1970s. There, he began to volunteer for a weekend radio show called “Alma del Barrio,” which was in its third year and unique in the Southern California Latino radio landscape by focusing on Afro-Caribbean music and presenting it with DJs who spoke in English and Spanish.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Eddie Lopez, L.A.’s Curator of All Things Salsa and Famed DJ of KXLU’s ‘Alma del Barrio,’ Dies