Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Set To Channel Hector Lavoe

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will begin principal photography on "El Cantante," an independently financed biopic of salsa singer Hector Lavoe.

Leon Ichaso ("Pinero") wrote the script and will direct the couple with Anthony playing Lavoe and Lopez playing Hector's wife Puchi.

Notoriously known as salsa's bad boy, he was a great talent with a brilliant voice. Lavoe was one of the biggest Spanish-language singers in the 1970's, but personal tragedy and a nasty heroin addiction left him penniless and dying from complications from AIDS.

Lavoe's dramatic and difficult life included a childhood of poverty, a lifelong struggle with drug addiction, the accidental shooting death of his son and a passionate but turbulent marriage.

Filming will begin November 14th in New York City for four weeks with one week of filming in Puerto Rico.