Artist: Wilfrido Vargas
Genre(s):
Latin: Dance
Discography:
Merengue
Year:
Tracks: 6
Wilfrido Vargas (b. Wilfrido Radamés Vargas MartÃnez, April 24, 1949, Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic), was a bandleader, trumpeter, vocaliser, adapter, composer and producer wHO was subservient in making the merengue style a world phenomena. He began his musical studies early, attending the Municipal Academy of Music first at long time 10. Before he was 12, he was the trumpet soloist and director of a little local ring. It was in his 1920s, nevertheless, that he begun to have commercial and critical successes. His band, Los Beduinos, produced their low album, Wilfrido Vargas y genus Sus Beduinos, on the Karen label in 1974. It was the low of 17 albums that Vargas would record with Karen, all the while performing as mentor to a modern generation of merengue musicians. Half of that low album was written by pianist and composer Sonny Ovalle, wHO helped formulate Los Beduinos' sound and world Health Organization would later on make a major contribution to Vargas' dispatch albums in the '80s.
Vargas' first hit came with his one-quarter album, Punto y Aparte!, which was issued by Karen in 1978. It produced a dispatch undivided, "El BarbarazoÃ," and helped touch off a world-wide merengue fury, providing exposure for slews of Dominican artists. Vargas had a series of hit albums in the '80s, commencement with his pair with Los Beduinos vocaliser Sandy Reyes, Wilfrido Vargas y Sandy Reyes, which was issued in 1982. In 1987 he switched to the Sonotone label and produced quint albums with them, including Aliveness, which received a 1989 Grammy nomination. From 1991 on he was with the Rodven label, and while he remained a major list in merengue, he would never again accomplish the prominence that he had known in the '80s. Outside of the merengue genre, Vargas too made a major contribution to the Fania All-Stars, connexion them for their historic performances in Cuba in 1979 and contributing to the recording of the All Stars' Habana Jam album, recorded March 3 of that year at a concert in Havana.
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