Sergio Vargas
Sergio Pascual Vargas Parra (Villa Altagracia, Dominican Republic, March 15, 1960), artistically known as Sergio Vargas. He is a Dominican merengue and bolero interpreter, who was very popular in the 80s and 90s, during the "golden age of merengue" and today he remains, active, as one of the referents of Dominican merengue. His brothers, Kaki and Johnny, are also performers of the genre and have been by his side for much of their respective musical careers.
Known as El negrito de Villa, Vargas participated in the Festival de la Voz organized by the Dominican musician Rafael Solano, where he finished in second place. Two years later in 1982, he became part of the Dionis Fernández orchestra. In this orchestra Sergio came to perform great hits such as "The designers", "At the rhythm of the night", "A man and a woman", among others. After this, Sergio went on to reinforce the orchestra "Los Hijos del Rey" as vocalist Leader. This orchestra in its beginnings was led by Fernando Villalona and Raulín Rosendo. It was in this group where their popularity began to grow, so much so that the group had fan clubs in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama and the east coast of the United States.
In 1986 Sergio released his first LP under the Karen Records label. This LP includes the single "I want to die", which is the Spanish version of "Je l'aime à mourir" by French singer Francis Cabrel. In 1987 he recorded another album with Los Hijos del Rey entitled "The earth trembled", with which he achieved great success. At the time that Sergio launched himself as a soloist, most of the musicians left with him, except Diómedes Nuñez and shortly after Orvis García. The arrangements for this production are by Sonny Ovalles and his pianist Juan Valdez. The singles of this production are "Ciclón (indoor party)", "Marola", "On the other side of the sun", "Bamboleo", "This humble house", "June days" and "Black pearl".