Dionisio Mejia, popularly known as Guandulito, (March 23, 1911 – June 1979) was a

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

singer and

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

player, who helped popularize the merengue tipico genre.

Discography

* ''Guandulito y Su Conjunto'' (1960) * ''Merengues'' (1960) * ''Parranda En Sabana Iglesia'' (1960) * ''En New York'' (1960) * ''La Chiva Blanca de Don José'' (1960) * ''Merengue Típico Dominicano Vol. 2'' (1972) * ''Merengues'' (1974) * ''Haciendo Historia'' (with

Wilfrido Vargas Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (; born April 24, 1949, in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican trumpeter, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer. He was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide phenom ...

) (1979)

References

External links

* Rafael Chaljub Mejia,
Antes de que te vayas: trayectoria del merengue folclorico
', Grupo Leon Jimenes, 2005.
Guandulito Bio
{{Authority control Dominican Republic musicians 1911 births 1978 deaths People from El Seibo Province Dominican Republic singer-songwriters