High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rafael Ithier (born 1926), is a Salsa musician and the founder of the highly successful orchestra El Gran Combo. Ithier was born in Rio Piedras, now a part of greater San Juan. Ithier born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, showed a passion for music when he was very young. His father, Nicolas Ithier, played music together with Rafael Hernandez Marin, another of Puerto Rico's music legends. Ithier became an expert guitarist in the bolero genre, and he was a member of the Tito Henriquez group, Taone. His sister Esperanza later inspired him to learn how to play the piano. Ithier and his namesake, Rafael Cortijo, knew each other and formed a friendship at an early age; rumors of animosity would later surface but they both denied it, saying they considered themselves to be "like brothers." Ithier joined Cortijo's orchestra, "Cortijo y su Combo", during the 1950s. Before that, he was in a New York group named the "Borinqueneers Mambo Boys."

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