Artist: Juan Luis Guerra Genre(s):
Latin
Pop
Other
Latin: Dance
Discography:
La Llave De Mi Corazon Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Festival Vina Del Mar 2006 Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Para Ti Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Encuentro Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Coleccion Romantica Cd2 Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Coleccion Romantica Cd1 Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Ojala Que Llueva Cafe Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
Mudanza Y Acarreo Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Grandes Exitos Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
Areito Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Ni Es Lo Mismo Ni Es Igual Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Fogarate Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Bachata Rosa Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Mientras Mas Lo Pienso Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
El Original 4.40 Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Bachata Year:
Tracks: 4
In his native Dominican Republic, merengue wiz Juan Luis Guerra is considered a poet and musician of the hoi polloi. He and his band 440 ar much loved passim the Latino world and he has become one of the new wave of artists responsible for for revitalizing the tropical music that had been languishing during the tardy '80s from ham and lack of invention.
Guerra is the logos of a professional baseball player and grew up side by side to the National Music Gallery. As a teenager, he was influenced by the Beatles and by the music of the U.S. hipsters. Initially, he taught himself the basics of guitar playacting, just after taking a contest, accompanied the National Conservatory on a scholarship. One of his instructors then helped Guerra catch into the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts and the many genres of jazz. In time, he constitute he lost his native Dominican Republic and so returned to experiment with blend local African-influenced music, folks songs and jazz with his group 440. The ring takes its list from the universal joint tuning traffic pattern of the A note, 440 Hertz. The name was chosen by Guerra's comrade José Gilberto wHO victimized to sit and catch them rehearse. One day he commented that they seemed so haunted with staying in perfect melody that they should call themselves that.
Their debut album, Soplando, made little shock. For their future efforts,
Mudanza y Acarreo and
Mientras Más Lo Pienso Tu, Guerra and 440 began adding merengue and lightning-quick riffs of "perico ripiao," and suddenly constitute success with a cy Young crowd tired from hearing the same quondam thing. The new music, called "bachata-merengue," presently north Korean won considerable acclaim in the Dominican Republic. The mathematical group was selected by their government to represent the nation in the International Music Festival of OTI, the Oraganization of Iberoamerican Television. In 1988, Guerra and 440 had one of their biggest hits,
Ojalá Que Llueva Café, which became the third best-selling album in Latin America. That year he mixed-up his lead vocalizer, Maridalia Hernández, wHO left to act on her solo career in Europe, leaving Guerra to turn the new lead vocalizer. In 1991, he released
Bachata Rose which became a smash hit passim the Americas and won Guerra his low Grammy in the U.S. The album was particularly popular in Los Angeles and before long Guerra and his ring were touring. His future album,
Areito, caused argument in the Dominican Republic for oral presentation tabu against social injustice that the urgently pitiful felt Guerra had never personally experienced. Still, he mustiness be given credit for his serious-mindedness and interest in improving things in his oft-troubled homeland. Musically, Guerra changed directions again for his 1995 crusade
Fogaraté. This album corporate more of the progressively democratic African soukous music. It became quite popular. His 1998 loss
Ni Es Lo Mismo Ni Es Igual garnered Guerra three Grammys for Best Merengue Performance, Best Tropical Song for "El Niagara en Bicicleta," and for Best Engineered Album at the low annual Latin Grammy Awards in fall 2000.
