Tony Echavarría

Miguel Antonio "Tony" Echavarría Vanderhorst (born September 29, 1926 in Santo Domingo ; † January 1, 1993 ibid) was a Dominican singer and cabaret artist.

Echevarría began his artistic career as a singer with Antonio Morel's orchestra in the 1940s . He ran a club in which musicians, merengue and salsa singers performed and later organized Thursday events in the Bahoruco restaurant where young orchestras presented themselves. In the El lirio restaurant he started a series of events known as Tony Echavarría "Cambumbos" Social Montage (Lunes sociales), which were also regularly attended by foreign artists. The charismatic and sharp-tongued satirist and avowed homosexual also made enemies.

In 1965 Echavarría took an active part in the fighting of the Revolución de Abril . In the 1970s he was the victim of an armed attack from which he left paralysis of his right arm. The assassins were not officially identified, but suspected in the vicinity of the dictatorial ruling President Joaquín Balaguer .

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SURNAME	Echavarría, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Echavarría Vanderhorst, Miguel Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dominican singer and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santo Domingo
DATE OF DEATH	January 1, 1993
Place of death	Santo Domingo