FeRnAnDo ViLlAlOnA

Fernando Villalona who was born Ramon Fernando Villalona Evora On May 7, 1955 is a Dominican merengue singer whose popularity started to grow in the early 1980s and has not declined ever since. Fernando began singing at a very early age and became popular after participating in "El Festival de la Voz", an amateur TV talent show. After that, merengue icon Wilfrido Vargas hired him to form part of his group "Los Hijos del Rey" but Fernando and the group would soon be separated after his popularity became larger than the group itself. He would then go into a period of drugs and isolation but never stopped singing, recording some of his best music during that period.He has never gained popularity outside of Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. For the Dominicans Fernando Villalona, also known as Mayimbe, is a much loved artist.



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