Wilfrido Vargas

Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (born April 24, 1949 in Altamira ) is a Dominican band leader, trumpeter, singer and composer who is best known as a merengue musician .

Vargas attended music school in his hometown from the age of ten and led his first band as a solo trumpeter when he was twelve. In 1972 he founded the group Los Beduinos in Santo Domingo , whose first album Wilfrido Vargas y sus Beduinos was released as the first of seventeen albums in 1974 on the Karen label . Some of the compositions came from Sonny Ovalle . Punto y Aparte had international success with the single El Barbarazoí .

In the early 1980s a duo album was released with the Beduino singer Sandy Reyes . In 1989 he moved to the Sonotone label , which released five albums, including the 1991 Grammy- nominated animation . In 1992 he was a guest star at the Festival de Viña del Mar , where he was awarded the Premio Gaviota de Plata , and performed at the Auditorio Simón Bolívar in Sao Paulo.

In 1993 he took part in the Festival de Acapulco in Mexico. In 1994 he was elected Gran Mariscal de los Carnavales de Barranquilla and received the Order of Heráldica de Cristobal Colón with the rank of Caballero from the Dominican government .

Discography

Wilfrido 86 , 1986
Vida, Cancion y Suerte , 1987
Medicina 86 , 1989
Mas Que Un Loco , 1990
Wilfrido Vargas , 1991
Abusadora , 1993
Itinerario , 1993
Wilfrido Vargas & Sandy Reyes , 1994
El Funcionario , 1994
El Africano , 1994
La Medicina , 1994
El Extraterrestre , 1995
Usted Se Queda Aqui , 1996
Y Sus Consentidas , 1996
Hoy , 1997
El Africano , 1999
Wilfrido Vargas [BMG] , 2000
www.wilfrido-vargas.com , 2000
Musica , 2001
Amor Casual, Vol. 10 , 2001
Usted Se Queda Aqui, Vol. 8 , 2001
Dos Generaciones , 2002
El Unico , 2002

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personal data
SURNAME	Vargas, Wilfrido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vargas Martínez, Wilfrido Radamés
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican singer, trumpeter and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altamira (Puerto Plata)