Biography: Wilfrido Vargas, Wilkins, Waldik Soriano, Waldir Azevedo, Waldo De Los Rios, William Centellas, William Cepeda,

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Wilfrido Vargas Biography, Photos, Pictures

Wilfrido Vargas (b Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez, April 24, 1949, Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic), was a bandleader, trumpeter, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer who was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide phenomena

Puerto Rican singer Wilkins (born Germán Ramírez), achieved the honor of being the first pop artist to perform at San Juan’s Fine Arts Center In the early ’90s his “Sopa De Caracol” became a huge success worldwide, even climbing on the German Hit Parade

Waldik Soriano Biography, Photos, Pictures

Waldick Soriano was very popular in an extremely bad-tasting formula called cafona in Brazil, which later would continue as the brega style A synthesis of Bienvenido Granda, Anísio Silva, Nelson Gonçalves, Orlando Dias, and others, he became inspired by the film Durango Kid, and began dressing in cowboy outfits, forging his own style

Waldir Azevedo Biography, Photos, Pictures

Waldir Azevedo was the most successful composer and musician of the genre choro, and maybe of all Brazilian music, in relative terms A pioneer in the exploration of the instrument cavaquinho, his themes, simple and communicative, always succeeded in capturing the attention of listeners

Waldo De Los Rios Biography, Photos, Pictures

The musical traditions of Chile were preserved through the music of Santiago-born vocalist and pianist Waldo De Los Rios (born Marta Ines Gutierrez De Vargas) The lesser-known of two Latin singer/songwriters with the same name, De Los Rios shifted his focus to folkloric music after making his radio debut as a tango singer in 1931

William Centellas Biography, Photos, Pictures

William Centellas didn’t play the charango (a small, five-stringed, guitar-like instrument tuned in triple tones) until he was studying architecture and urbanism at the Greater University of San Andres

William Cepeda Biography, Photos, Pictures

After graduating from the Puerto Rican Conservatory of Music and from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, William Cepeda began playing Latin percussion inspired by Afro-Caribbean rhythms

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