El Gran Combo is a Puerto Rican Salsa music orchestra that is considered “the most popular Salsa group that has ever existed”. The group is currently enjoying their 55th Anniversary and chose to celebrate their milestone during New York City’s Puerto Rican celebration weekend.

The historic night (held at Madison Square Garden) was presented by Felix Cabrera and included some legendary artists in their own right; which included Gilberto Santa Rosa, India, Jose Alberto “El Canario”, Ismael Miranda and others. The artists showed great chemistry as they duetted on some of the groups most classic songs.

Almost nothing was missing from their set: “Julia”, “Vagabundo”, “Un verano en Nueva York”, “La Reina” and many more tunes had the audience on their feet and singing at the top of their lungs.

While most of us would assume 55 years of live performances would have us feeling exhausted, El Gran Combo proved otherwise. Almost three hours of live singing, choreography, instrument playing, and an immense amount of energy, they showed NYC exactly what is so GRAND about them!

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Originally a freelance celebrity photographer for HipHopWeekly, Frank “Silent” Rivera founded TrueExclusives.com in 2007, covering urban pop culture news while providing audiences with exclusive content. Since then, his original works have been featured in TMZ.com, HuffingtonPost.com and the Howard Stern Show, among others. In 2012, Rivera began working as the videographer, video editor and social media coordinator for Platinum-selling recording artist Brandy, capturing behind-the-scenes moments of her international promotional tour. He is currently executive producing his debut documentary film on the undeserved Puerto Rican neighborhood of La Perla, thanks to crowd-funded donations.

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