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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 ...
Charlie Aponte: June 6, 2015. Solo debut after departing El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. Alex Zurdo: June 7, 2015; Nick Jonas: August 9, 2015. First performance in Puerto Rico as a solo artist. Tego Calderón: August 28, 2015; Nicky Jam: September 17–18, 2015; De La Ghetto: November 13, 2015
Brujeria was formed at a party in 1989 in the spirit of creating a grindcore and death metal band representative of the Latino/Chicano community. Its members, the guitarist Dino Cazares, Jello Biafra, drummer Pat Hoed, bass guitarist Billy Gould and vocalist Juan Brujo, used pseudonyms as most were in other known bands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.