Liliana Goodman Meregildo, known professionally as Lilly Goodman (born 19 December 1980) is a
Dominican singer and songwriter. Considered one of the best and most important voices in
Christian music
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. Music has been always a part of her family and she is known for singing
Christian themed songs in Spanish. She has also received numerous nominations and awards over the years, some of which include the
Latin Grammy
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and Cassandra Awards (currently Soberano).
Life
Goodman was born in
Santo Domingo
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,
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
in 1980. She's of British Virgin Islands descent. She attended church where she taught at Sunday school and sang. Her singing became known via the radio. She set out to work in pharmacy but she decided to sing publicly when she was 19.
[ Her first success was in 2001 with an album titled ''Contigo Dios''.][Lilly Goodman]
Biography, BuenaMusica.com, Retrieved 3 February 2016 In 2006 she released an album titled "Survive" which saw one of her songs being sung by Aline Barros in Portuguese. She was declared the best Christian singer in her home country in 2006.[
Goodman married David Hegwood in 2007 and set up a production company with her husband. She lives in ]Dallas, Texas
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with her two children, and is a worship pastor and artist in residence at Gateway Church in nearby Southlake.
Range and vocal style
Lilly is one of the most prodigious Gospel
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artists in Latin America
Latin America or
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.
Features on
* Red TV (Colombia) - first year featured her singing
* El Juicio Final, 2008
*Alex Campos
Édgar Alexánder Campos Mora, better known as Alex Campos, is a Colombian evangelical singer-songwriter.
Campos has won three Latin Grammy Awards
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for ''Regreso A Ti'' (which won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Christian Album (Spanish Language))
*LillyGoodman.co
References
1980 births
Living people
People from Santo Domingo
21st-century Dominican Republic women singers
Dominican Republic performers of Christian music
Dominican Republic Protestants
Dominican Republic people of Cocolo descent
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