Fernando Villalona is a Dominicanmerengue singer whose popularity started to grow in the early 1980s and has not declined ever since. Oddly enough Fernando has hardly gained any popularity outside of the Dominican Republic but is relatively known in Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Fernando began singing at a very early age and became popular after participating in "El Festival de la Voz", and 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. Merengue is a type of lively, joyful music and dance that comes from the Dominican Republic. ... The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... Wilfrido Vargas (born April 24, 1949) is a merengue musician from Dominican Republic. ...
Songs such as "Celos", "Te Amo Demasiado", "Dominicano Soy", "Sonambulo", "Baila en la Calle" among others became popular in the 1980s. "Quisqueya", "No Podras", "Musica Latina", "Retorno" and "Me He Enamorado" were some his big hits in the 1990s. The 1990s in its most obvious sense refers to the years 1990 to 1999. ...
Ramón FernandoVillalona Évora was born in Monte Cristi, may 7 in 1955 and was raised in the village Loma de Cabrera, in the provinces Dajabón.
After that FernandoVillalona's real professional career started, joining the group Los Hijos del Rey, with whom he made his debute in front of 20,000 people, sharing the stage with la gran Fania All Star, lead by the dominican Johnny Pacheco.
At the end of the seventies, FernandoVillalona with los Hijos del Rey played the most important stages of the Dominican Republic and the world.
FernandoVillalona 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", and 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.