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La Excelencia is an eleven piece salsa dura band from New York City founded by percussionists Julian Silva and Jose Vazquez-Cofresi. The band's music has a salsa romantica style, with themes incorporating immigration, poverty, and discrimination. Founded in 2005 by Luis Arona and Julian Silva, La Excelencia recorded and released three albums in the subsequent seven years. The group disbanded in 2012, with Vazquez-Confresi and some of the membership reforming as Orquesta SCC. The band reunited in 2017 under the direction of Silva to start working on their 4th album, "Machete."
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