Johnny Ventura

Johnny Ventura may be the man who nearly singlehandedly developed and modernized the modern merengue sound, you start with his 1st recordings in the first ’60s. He was affected by the initial wave of rock and roll & move, and quickly brought in the energy aswell as some dance routines influenced by Elvis. He continuing to record in to the 1990s, though additional merengue singers such as for example Wilfrido Vargas and Juan Luís Guerra got usurped a lot of his popularity.