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Since the word “combo” was in vogue those days for mid-size bands, the group landed with a name that would reflect a “new and improved” combo, a great combo; El Gran Combo. [11] [12] The album they recorded was titled Menéame Los Mangos, El Gran Combo con Joseito Mateo (the phrase translates as Shake Your Mangoes for Me, a double ...
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (pictured in 2011) was the first musical act to reach number one on the Tropical Albums chart in 1985. They also had the most number one albums of the 1980s with a total of five records. In June 1985, Billboard magazine established Tropical Albums (initially called Tropical/Salsa Latin Albums), a chart that ranks the best-selling tropical albums in the United ...
25th Anniversary 1962-1987 is a greatest hits album by Puerto Rican salsa band, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. The album became the group's third number-one album on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart. The album was released to commemorate the band's 25th anniversary.
Rodríguez was the lead singer for more than 100 songs with El Gran Combo and recorded over 20 studio albums with them. [7] Rodríguez also appears on over 20 compilations of the group. During his decade with El Gran Combo, the group enjoyed commercial success and received several awards and international recognitions.
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Roberto Roena Vázquez (January 16, 1940 – September 23, 2021) [1] was a Puerto Rican salsa music percussionist, orchestra leader, and dancer. Roena was one of the original members of Cortijo y su combo and later with El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico.
Rafael Ithier and other bandmates went on to found Puerto Rico's salsa group, "El Gran Combo". [11] In 1973 Cortijo happened to meet the pianist working at WKDM radio in New York, Pepe Castillo, who provided ideas for arrangements that Cortijo would use in his final album, His Time Machine y su Máquina del Tiempo.
Rafael Ithier Natal [1] (born August 29, 1926) is a Puerto Rican salsa musician and the founder of the highly successful orchestra El Gran Combo. [2] Ithier was born in Río Piedras, now a part of the municipality of San Juan.