The photograph shows the hero of this tale, Roger Glenn, sometime in the late 1940s when he was five or six, learning to play ...

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Leading the acclaimed salsa group El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, he brought the music of his native island to a worldwide ...

The year 2025 has been difficult for Kenya and the wider African community, marked by the loss of influential figures across ...

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Rafael Ithier, the legendary founder, pianist, composer and arranger of the world-renowned salsa orchestra El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, has died.

Most of us come across music pretty much every day, whether that be on the radio, TV or a busker on the street. But why is it so important? Composer, musical director, educator and panelist on our BBC ...

The set opens at Nos. 1 and 2 on Tropical Albums and Top Latin Albums. Plus nine of its songs debut on Hot Latin Songs, a career high for both.

The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond.

Rafael Ithier, a beloved musician and a founder of the legendary salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, whose hits have inspired Bad Bunny and other icons, has died. He was 99. An attorney for ...

Recorded live at the BBC Proms, Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s propulsive performance, with soloists Allan Clayton, Jamie Barton and James Platt, is one to cherish ...