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Francisco Ulloa (accordionist)
Francisco Ulloa is a famous merengue accordionist, specializing in merengue típico. He is known for his skill and improvisation technique on the accordion, and started his career around the same time as Tatico Henriquez, which some consider to be the godfather of merengue tipico, in the 1970s. He currently resides in Santiago, Dominican Republic. He plays at private festivals, concert halls at home, and also those abroad. His sound would be considered more similar to Fefita la Grande or Agapito Pascual rather than El Prodigio Krency Garcia, better known as El Prodigio, is a famous merengue típico accordionist from Cabrera, Dominican Republic. He is known throughout the genre for his rapid instrumental solos, his origination of fusion in merengue tipico with genres l ... or Grupo Aguakate. Discography * El Baby Vol. 1 (1970) # Pa' Tumbar la Mala Maña # Tú Eres la Que Sabe # La Media Vuelta # Milagrito # La Nochebuena # Si una Mujer Se Me Va # La Mala Maña en Bac ...
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Perico Ripiao
Perico may refer to: People * Gabriele Perico (born 1984), Italian footballer * Laura Perico (born 1989), Colombian actress * Miguel Ángel Alonso or Perico Alonso (born 1953), father of Xabi Alonso * Perico (Spanish footballer) (born 1985), Spanish footballer * Perico Fernandez (1952–2016), professional boxer from Zaragoza, Spain * Perico Sambeat (born 1962), Spanish jazz saxophonist * Simone Perico (born 1989), Italian footballer * Perico (elder), leader of the Acaxee tribe and their rebellion against the Spanish Places * Perico, Cuba, a city in Matanzas Province * Perico, Texas, a ghost town in the United States * Ciudad Perico, a city in the Province of Jujuy, Argentina Other uses * Perico (dish), a popular Venezuelan and Colombian dish based on scrambled eggs and various vegetables * ''Perico'' (book), of short stories by Uruguayan writer Juan José Morosoli Juan José Morosoli (January 19, 1899 – December 29, 1957) was a Uruguayan writer. His masterpiece is ''Perico ...
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame), colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina , harmoneon and bandoneón are related. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing ''pallets'' to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called '' reeds''. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block.For the accordion's place among the families of musical ...
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Merengue Music
Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in the Dominican Republic, which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States with Latino communities. Merengue was inscribed on November 30, 2016 in the representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO. Merengue was developed in the middle of the 1800s, originally played with European stringed instruments ( bandurria and guitar). Years later, the stringed instruments were replaced by the accordion, thus conforming, together with the güira and the tambora, the instrumental structure of the typical merengue ensemble. This set, with its three instruments, represents the synthesis of the three cultures that made up the idiosyncrasy of Dominican culture. The European influence is represented by the accordion, the African by the Tambora, which is a two-head drum, and the Taino or aboriginal by the güira. The genre was later promoted ...
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Accordionist
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame), colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina , harmoneon and bandoneón are related. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing ''pallets'' to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called '' reeds''. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block.For the accordion's place among the families of musical in ...
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Merengue Típico
Merengue típico (also known as merengue cibaeño or colloquially as perico ripiao) is a musical genre of the Dominican Republic, and the oldest style of merengue. Merengue típico is the term preferred by most musicians as it is more respectful and emphasizes the music's traditional nature. The Instruments that are used are the accordion, bass guitar, güira, conga, and tambora (drum). ''Merengue típico'' is the oldest style of merengue still performed today (usually in the Dominican Republic and the United States), its origins dating back to the 1850s. It originated in the rural city of Navarrete (villa bisono), northern valley region around the city of Santiago called the Cibao, resulting in the term "merengue cibaeño". Originally played on the metal scraper called güira, the tambora, and a stringed instrument (usually a guitar or a variant such as the tres). Stringed instruments were replaced with two-row diatonic button accordions when Germans began to travel to the ...
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Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ...
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Tatico Henriquez
Wilson Deodato da Silva (born January 10, 1981) is a Brazilian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... player. Club statistics References External links *J.League 1981 births Living people Brazilian footballers J2 League players Japan Football League players FC Ryukyu players Giravanz Kitakyushu players ReinMeer Aomori players FC Osaka players Brazilian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Japan Association football defenders {{Brazil-footy-defender-1980s-stub ...
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Santiago, Dominican Republic
Santiago de los Caballeros (; '' en, Saint James of the Knights''), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It is the capital of Santiago Province and the largest major metropolis in the Cibao region of the country, it is also the largest non-coastal metropolis in the Caribbean islands. The city has a total population of 1,173,015 inhabitants. Santiago is located approximately northwest of the capital Santo Domingo with an average altitude of 178 meters (584 ft). Founded in 1495 during the first wave of European settlement in the New World, the city is the "first Santiago of the Americas". Today it is one of the Dominican Republic's cultural, political, industrial and financial centers. Due to its location in the fertile Cibao Valley it has a robust agricultural sector and is a leading exporter of rum, textiles, and cigars. Santiago is known as "La Ciudad Corazón" (the " ...
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Fefita La Grande
Manuela Josefa Cabrera Taveras (born September 18, 1943), known as Fefita La Grande, is a Dominican accordionist and the most recognized female performer of typical merengue, a more rural variation of merengue, the main musical genre of the Dominican Republic. She is one of the greatest representatives of the " typical genre" along with artists such as Tatico Henríquez, Pedro Reynoso, El Ciego de Nagua, Francisco Peralta, Rafaelito Román, Francisco Ulloa, among others. Her version of the song "La chiflera" is an emblem of typical music.'' Biography She was born in a small town in the province of Santiago Rodríguez in the Dominican Republic. Daughter of Eliseo Cabrera (Seíto) and María Anna Taveras, from a very young age she began to be interested in music by playing the accordion inside her father's workshop. She was motivated to play the accordion after listening to the songs of Guandulito, one of the pioneers of typical merengue. At the age of seven she was alread ...
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Agapito Pascual
Agapito is both a given name and a surname. It is the Spanish and Italian version of Agapitus. Notable people with the name include: Given name: * Pope Agapetus I (490-536), Bishop of Rome, known as Agapetos in contemporary sources. *Agapito Aquino (1939-2015), Filipino politician *Agapito Conchu, Filipino film director *Agapito Gómez (born 1963), Spanish boxer *Agapito Jiménez Zamora (1817–1879), Costa Rican politician *Agapito Lozada (1938–2011), Filipino swimmer *Agapito Mayor (1915–2005), Cuban baseball player *Agapito Sánchez (1970–2005), Dominican Republic boxer Surname: *Julio García Agapito (died 2008), Peruvian environmentalist *Lourdes Agapito, Spanish computer scientist *Oliver Agapito (born 1973), Filipino basketball player Nickname *Alejandro Garcia Padilla Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander (Czech, Polish), Alexandre ( French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsan ...
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El Prodigio
Krency Garcia, better known as El Prodigio, is a famous merengue típico accordionist from Cabrera, Dominican Republic. He is known throughout the genre for his rapid instrumental solos, his origination of fusion in merengue tipico with genres like jazz, and his rivalry with fellow accordionists, Geovanny Polanco and Kerube (head of the tipico band Kerubanda). While the latter two are slightly more traditional, El Prodigio is more experimental, and has included instruments such as trombone, trumpet, and wurlitzer piano in his lineup, along with the standard accordion, tambora, güira, conga, electric bass, and saxophones of today's merengue tipico. Biography Krency began playing the accordion at a young age, and gave his first public performance at the age of 5. He proceeded to play on various children's TV shows that aired in the Dominican Republic. He later studied jazz at Berklee Institute of Music in the United States, and later used elements of jazz in his improvisati ...
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Grupo Aguakate
Grupo Aguakate was a Dominican merengue group from 2003 to 2006. The singer, known as Gerpis "Shino" Correa, is sometimes also called by the group name, Aguakate. Shino is also a radio personality on La Mega radio station in New York, being heard by thousands each morning on the show "El Vacilon de la Mañana", and he is also known for his humorous lyrics that use double entendre. Style Now named Shino Aguakate, the group's music is very fast and energetic, featuring rapid instrumental solos, but has been controversial in the tipico world because of its mixture of rhythms (for instance, in the song "Reggaeton Rippiao", the rhythm switches from merengue derecho to a reggaeton rhythm adapted for the tambora) and Shino's occasional use of strong language. The group combined innovative arrangements, traditional merengue songs, and reggaeton, and were thus able to bring merengue tipico to new audiences and new venues. Having traveled from New York to Alaska, Jamaica, Dominican Repub ...
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