El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, commonly known as El Gran Combo, is a Puerto Rican Salsa music orchestra. It is Puerto Rico's most successful musical group, and one of Salsa's most famous recording and ...

Rafael Ithier, founder of the emblematic salsa group El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, has died at age 99. The pianist, composer and arranger — who served as the orchestra's longtime musical director — ...

The band -- founded by the late Rafael Ithier -- has placed more than 40 songs on the Tropical Airplay chart, including 15 top 10s. By Sigal Ratner-Arias Deputy Editor, Billboard Español The founder ...

The Latin music world has lost a musical master with the passing of Rafael Ithier, the legendary founder, pianist, and musical director of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. Known universally as “El ...

Rafael Ithier, the musician who shaped the backbone of modern salsa and founded El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, has died at 99. According to Telemundo, news of his death was confirmed on Saturday, ...

The 714,566 hectare site comprises two distinct parts: the dormant volcanic Pinacate Shield of black and red lava flows and desert pavements to the east, and, in the west, the Gran Altar Desert with ...

I waited until the last minute to purchase my Halloween costume and wouldn’t you know it? By the time I got to my local Spirit Halloween (which, until the month before had been the Department of ...

On Friday night, Donald Trump threw a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago only hours before SNAP benefits expired for millions of Americans. On Monday night, late-night hosts focused ...

The timing added an unintended layer of irony. The party took place the night before many SNAP recipients experienced lapses in benefits, the federal program relied upon by millions of Americans to ...

“Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” is a line famously spoken by the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This year, writers are repeating the past — a lot — with ...

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I am a ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Dotting the ...