The biggest concert even that of Grupo Firme that Mexico forgot

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Despite Firm Group He gathered more than 280 thousand people in his concert in the capital’s zócalo, it is not the largest in the history of Mexico. In reality, that title belongs to Rigo Tovar, but the world forgot it.

The beloved singer Rigo Tovar holds the record for concert attendance. The native of Matamoros born in 1946, became an icon of music in Mexico, to the point of breaking the attendance record in a free event. This one happened in Monterey.

Firm Group Concert

On September 25, Grupo Firme was presented in the zócalo of Mexico City. He broke an attendance record gathering 280,000 people in such a historic place, making many believe that he had won the title of the concert with the most attendees in the history of Mexico.

Rigo Tovar concert

It’s not really like that “The idol of crowds”, Rigo Tovar, has so far been the artist with the most attendees at a show. In 1981, it appeared on the Santa Catarina River bridge, Monterrey, gathering around 500,000 people, according to the registry.

It is a reality that Grupo Firme was able to break the audience record for a show in the capital’s main square, displacing Vicente Fernandez, Shakira and even the legendary British singer Paul McCartney.

But the historic number of attendees for a concert in Mexico still belongs to the legend Rigo Tovar.

At that time, the artist from Tamaulipas had already become one of the greatest musical figures in the country and thanks to an event organized by Grupo Radio Alegría’s BJB radio station together with the support of the state government, it was possible to carry out in such a massive way.

Pedro Arturo Ortiz was one of the organizers of the event as he belonged to Grupo Radio Alegría for decades and assures that a traffic chaos was created on the outskirts of the place causing the artist to not be able to reach the stage on time, so they decided to take him by helicopter to that could be presented. This is where his nickname was born, “The idol of crowds”.

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The biggest concert even that of Grupo Firme that Mexico forgot