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Most widely known for his tenure being a vocalist and songwriter in the bachata supergroup Aventura, Henry Santos is a Dominican vocalist from NEW YORK who produced his solo record debut in 2011. Blessed Henry Santos Jeter on Dec 15, 1979, in Moca, Dominican Republic, he transferred with his family …

Uruguayan los Fatales became probably one of the most well-known tropical rings in SOUTH USA following issuing the double-platinum record Revolución Fatal and Que Monstruos. The group takes on Colombian Cumbia, Brazilian samba, Puerto Rican plena, and regional candombe. Led by previous disk jockey Fabian Delgado, aka Fata, Lito Díaz, …

Before becoming famous performing his own music, Colombian singer/songwriter Ivan Ovalle worked well behind the scenes and wrote hits for a few of vallenato’s biggest stars. Diómedes Díaz, Jorge Oñate, Beto Zabaleta, Rafael Orozco, and many more had hits along with his music before Ovalle started performing his personal tracks …

Afro-Cuban singer Tito Gómez was nicknamed Tito by regional musician Miguelito Valdés. In 1938, José Antonio Tenreiro Gómez emerged in initial place after taking part in a Cuban competition, known as La Corte Suprema del Arte (Supreme Artwork Court), signing up for Sevilla Biltmore Orquestra immediately after. In 1939, Gómez …

Formerly the favorite Dominican meren-house duo Sandy & Papo, Sandy MC began his solo career after Papo’s untimely death in a vehicle accident. His debut recording Homenaje A Papo, which honored his dropped partner, was releasesd in middle-2000 by Platano Information.

Charlie Aponte is a Puerto Rican salsa vocalist, and for more than 40 years was business lead vocalist for the country’s legendary Un Gran Combo. Aponte was learning accounting at university or college, but experienced also established a good reputation like a sonero, carrying out at top-grade night clubs such …

In the first ’90s, Colombian brothers Jorge and Sady Ramírez teamed up with singers Carolina Ovalle, Jhanio Coronado, and Willy Garcés to create a tropical threesome to spend tribute to Sonora Matancera, perhaps one of the most successful orchestras in the Latin music field. Alquimia debuted using the discharge of …

Ciego De Nagua, a.k.a. Gonzalez Alvarado Pereira, is certainly among merengue tipico’s most well-known performers. His albums for Platano Information consist of 1998’s Revancha and 2000’s Frente A Frente: Ciego De Nagua Vs. Agapito Pasucal.

Among Chicago’s most outrageous disk jockeys, Steve Dahl offers shown to be equally successful being a vocalist and songwriter. His music group, Teenage Radiation, utilized a sharp love of life to carefully turn such tongue-in-jowl parodies as “RTA” and “DO YOU CONSIDER I’m Disco” into nationwide hits. “DO YOU CONSIDER …

Often weighed against Philadelphia-born trumpet participant Ziggy Elman (1914-1968), Julio Cueva played an important part in the evolution of Afro-Cuban music. The first choice of an extremely successful band, through the 1940s, he helped to introduce such later on Afro-Cuban celebrities as vocalist Orlando “Cascarita” Guerra and pianist/arranger Rene Hernandez. …