Sonia Silvestre

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Sonia Silvestre

Sonia Margarita Silvestre Ortíz (born August 16, 1952 in San Pedro de Macorís , † April 19, 2014 in Santo Domingo ) was a Dominican singer.

biography

Silvestre came to Santo Domingo with her family in 1963, where she studied education at the Universidad Pedro Enriquez Ureña , before making her debut as a singer in 1970 in the program Gente produced by Freddy Ginebra for Radio Televisión Dominicana . She became known in 1971 as a participant in the IV Festival de la Canción Dominicana , where she took second place with the title Dónde podré gritarte que te quiero by Leonor Porchella de Brea , and as a finalist of the Festival de La Canción in Bogotá . Then her first LP Esta es Sonia Silvestre was released .

In 1973, at the invitation of the Consejo Nacional de Cultura , she went on a concert tour through Cuba with Víctor Víctor and the Orquesta Irakere . She has given concerts in Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States and has appeared on television programs such as Farándula (1973). She was successful as an interpreter of ballads, socially critical songs and folk music and performed with Luis Días as an interpreter of the bachata . She received the Premios El Dorado several times , in 1990 the Premio Casandra and in 1991 as an international artist in Puerto Rico the Premio Paoli .

Discography

Sonia Silvestre (second from left) at an awards ceremony in 2012.
  • Esta es Sonia Silvestre
  • Sonia in Buenos Aires
  • Sonia nueva canción
  • La nueva canción
  • Sonia canta poetas de la patria
  • Amor y desamor
  • Folkhoy
  • Corazón de bellonera
  • Yo quiero andar
  • Una verdadera intérprete
  • Mi corazón te seguirá
  • Edición especial de grandes éxitos de los años 70
  • Verde y negro (with Víctor Víctor)

Web links

Commons : Sonia Silvestre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Sonia Silvestre in: El nuevo diario ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Silvestre, Sonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silvestre Ortíz, Sonia Margarita (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH San Pedro de Macorís
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2014
Place of death Santo Domingo