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José Peña Suazo
José Peña Suazo (born January 18, 1967), is a Dominican Merengue music, Merengue singer, arranger, composer and musician. Pena Suazo has played the trumpet, composed and arranged in many Dominican merengue music groups like Cuco Valoy's orchestra and ''La Artillería''. He is currently the lead singer of La Banda Gorda. Career Early life José Peña Suazo was born on January 18, 1967, in Cotuí, capital of Sánchez Ramírez Province in the Cibao, Dominican Republic. He was a premature baby but was able to survive his early childhood. While growing up in Dominican Republic he was exposed to many Latin music genres like Bachata, Merengue and Salsa. At the age of seventeen Peña Suazo started taking Tuba lessons with the Dominican music teacher Juan Eutimo Jerez. However, after his older brother, Arturo Suazo, formed his own group, Suazo joined him as a trumpet player. 1980s In 1987, Suazo moved out of Cotuí to the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo, looking for a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotuí
Cotuí is a city in the central region of the Dominican Republic and is one of the oldest cities of the New World. It is the capital of Sánchez Ramírez Province in the Cibao. According to the Population and Housing Census, the municipality had a total urban population of 79,596 inhabitants. History It was founded in 1505 by Rodrigo Trillo de Mejía for order of Nicolas de Ovando, who was the governor of Hispaniola. Its name, formerly written Cotuy, was the name of the Taino community located around the gold and silver mines exploited by the Spanish conquerors from the first decade of the 16th century. Early years The total sum of gold extracted during the first two decades of the 16th century in the Spanish Island was estimated at 30,000 kilos, an amount greater than the totality of production in Europe in those years and above the total gold collected by the Portuguese in Africa. Historian Pedro Mártir de Anglería, in his work Una Decada de Orbe Novo, refers to the min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sánchez Ramírez Province
Sánchez Ramírez () is a province which constituting one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic. It is divided into 4 municipalities and its capital city is Cotuí. Located in the Cibao Sur region in central Dominican Republic, it is bordered by the provinces of Duarte to the north, Monte Plata to the east and south, Monseñor Nouel to the south-west and west and La Vega to the north-west. It was formerly part of Duarte in 1952, and is named after Brigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez, hero of the Battle of Palo Hincado (1808) at which Spanish rebels defeated the French occupying forces. Municipalities and municipal districts The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following municipalities ('' municipios'') and municipal districts (''distrito municipal'' - D.M.) within them: * Cevicos **La Cueva (D.M.) * Cotuí **Quita Sueño (D.M.) ** Platanal (D.M.) * Fantino * La Mata **Angelina (D.M.) **La Bija (D.M.) The following is a sortable table of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merengue Music
Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in the Dominican Republic, which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States with Latino communities. Merengue was inscribed on November 30, 2016 in the representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO. Merengue was developed in the middle of the 1800s, originally played with European stringed instruments ( bandurria and guitar). Years later, the stringed instruments were replaced by the accordion, thus conforming, together with the güira and the tambora, the instrumental structure of the typical merengue ensemble. This set, with its three instruments, represents the synthesis of the three cultures that made up the idiosyncrasy of Dominican culture. The European influence is represented by the accordion, the African by the Tambora, which is a two-head drum, and the Taino or aboriginal by the güira. The genre was later promot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuco Valoy
Cuco Valoy (born January 6, 1937, in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican Republic singer, songwriter, percussionist and guitarist, who is versatile in salsa, son montuno, guaracha and merengue. He began performing with his brother Martín, under the name Los Ahijados. Valoy is the father of Ramón Orlando Ramón Orlando Valoy García (born July 29, 1959), is a Dominican musician, singer, arranger, composer, record producer and songwriter, besides being a gran maestro pianist in Caribbean rhythms. Ramón Orlando received seven Casandra awards in ..., with whom he formed the band Los Virtuosos, later changed to La Tribu. He is widely known for the song "Juliana", which was covered by the group DLG; a cover that featured Valoy's vocals. Discography * 1993: ''Bien Sobao/Y Lo Virtuoso'' (Kubaney) * 1993: ''Lo Mejor de Cuco Valoy'' (Kubaney) * 1993: ''Lo Mejor de Cuco Valoy, Vol. 2'' (Kubaney) * 1995: ''Época de Oro'' (Kubaney) * 1996: ''Disco de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Banda Gorda
La Banda Gorda is a popular Merengue music group from Dominican Republic directed by José Peña Suazo. The band plays fast Merengue from Dominican Republic, salsa music and is known for its diverse style and Caribbean flavor. History Jose Peña Suazo had previously worked with Latin music makers including Alfonso "Pochi" Vásquez and Kinito Mendez Kinito is a drinking game involving people, two dice, a table, a cup or basket, and beer or sangria or kalimotxo. Originally from Spain, this game evolves from Kiriki into a more social game. The object of the game is to force either the person pr .... In 1994 Suazo went on his own and formed his own group which he named "Jose Peña Suazo y la Banda Gorda", dubbed 'Banda Gorda' for short. The group's first album "Libre al fin" (Free at Last), was released on April 19, 1994. The group has made albums regularly, though not yearly, ever since. Discography *Libre al Fin (1994) *Candela Pura (1995) *Tu Muere Aquí (1996) *Por el Mismo Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
