Gilberto Monroig

Gilberto Monroig Jimenez (born July 2, 1930 in San Juan , † May 3, 1996 ibid) was a Puerto Rican singer.

Monroig grew up listening to Puerto Rican music and the tangos of Carlos Gardels . At the age of fourteen he became a member of a band called Conjunto Maravilla , later singer and guitarist in a student group that performed at the King Club in San Juan. From there he moved to a group that played in the China Doll Club in Santurce.

At the age of fifteen he became a member of the orchestra of William Manzano in Mayagüez, which appeared on the radio. Six months later he got a contract as a singer in Rafael Elvira's Super Orquesta Tropicana . In 1948 he was invited to perform with Pete Rivera's orchestra for the opening of the Caribe Hilton Hotel .

After a few months at the Caribe Hilton, he went to New York and became a member of Armando Castro's orchestra. He also had his own performances in New York, the Dominican Republic and Curaçao. In 1951 he joined the José Curbelos Orchestra, but only months later, after Vincentico Valdés' successor, he moved to Tito Puentes Orchestra, to which he was a member for two years.

Tired of traveling, he returned to Puerto Rico in 1955 to pursue a career as a soloist. He recorded more than 40 singles and 30 albums - u. a. with compositions by Pedro Flores 'and Rafael Hernández ' - and won gold records twice : in 1959 with Moisés Zoaíns Egoismo and in 1964 with Héctor Urdanetas Simplemente una ilusión .

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SURNAME	Monroig, Gilberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Monroig Jimenez, Gilberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Puerto Rican singer
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd July 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Juan
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1996
Place of death	San Juan