El gran varón
| "El gran varón" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song by Willie Colón | ||||
| from the album Top Secrets | ||||
| Language | Spanish | |||
| Released | 1989 | |||
| Recorded | 1986–1989 | |||
| Genre | Salsa | |||
| Length | 6:53 | |||
| Label | Fania Records | |||
| Songwriter | Omar Alfanno | |||
| Producer | Willie Colón | |||
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"El gran varón", (English: The Great Man) also known as «Simón, el gran varón», or Simón is a salsa song written in 1986 by Omar Alfanno and sung by Willie Colón. The song narrates the story of Simón, a trans woman who is rejected by her father for her identity and dies presumably of AIDS, alone in a hospital in New York.
Despite not being released as a single, the song remains as one of the most listened from Willie Colón, as well as being one of his most recognized across Hispanic America, Spain and globally.