The Meringue

This movement began to be forged throughout Quisqueya; While Wilfrido Vargas y Los Beduinos, in Puerto Rico, was formed in Santo Domingo, a group of young people, led by four university students, formed a small group known as "El Conjunto Quisqueya", which had a resounding success due to the picaresque style. of his group of singers and his extremely modern arrangements for his time. While the Dominican Republic saw the "war" that developed between two great interpreters of Merengue, such as Wilfrido Vargas and Johnny Ventura at that time, a new giant of the genre emerged, the maestro Cuco Valoy, who came to do in the 1960s and 70s. They are montuno, guaracha and then he internationalized Dominican Salsa to unexpected places

The decade of the 80s began with a national effervescence of merengue, the entire Dominican Republic was flooded with merengue orchestras and the movement expanded strongly to Dominican residents in New York, where front-line groups were also formed that greatly influenced the rhythm for its fusions with Caribbean rhythms such as The Big Apple and The New York Band..