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Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in...

Grace Jones (born May 19, 1948) is a Jamaican-American singer, model, and actress.

Fernando Villalona, "The first artist named "El Mayimbe" (Born Ramon Fernando Villalona Evora On May 7, 1955, aged 52) is a Dominican merengue singer whose popularity started to grow in the early 1980s and has not declined ever since. Fernando...

Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano, better known by his stage name, Johnny Ventura, was born in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, on the 8th of March in 1940. Son of a modest family, he dreamt in his childhood...

Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (born April 24, 1949) was born in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Vargas began his musical studies early, attending the Municipal Academy of Music beginning at age 10. He has been a trumpeter and a vocalist,...

Sergio Vargas is a famous merengue singer from the Dominican Republic who became a politician in 2006. Along with Freddie Kenton, Milly Quezada, Toňo Rosario, Wilfrido Vargas and Fernando Villalona, Vargas obtained fame in Latin America and Europe during the...

Cuco Valoy Popularly known as "El Brujo"--the sorcerer--the Dominican salsero and merenguero Valoy first attracted attention in the 50s in the duo Los Ahijados, with his brother Martín Valoy. Los Ahijados played son.

Máximo Antonio del Rosario (born November 3, 1955), commonly known as Toño Rosario, is a Merengue musician born in the Dominican Republic. Toño is well-known throughout Latin American, the US, and Europe. When Toño was a child, others would tease...

Chichi Peralta (July 9, 1966) is a musician, arranger and producer, from the Dominican Republic.

Grupo Manía (sometimes spelled Grupomanía or GrupoManía) is a popular merengue group from Puerto Rico that released its debut album in 1993. The group was formed by brothers Héctor, Edwin and Oscar Serrano together with Alfred Cotto in the early...