Name Milly Quezada | Occupation(s) Singer, Songwriter Music group Milly y los Vecinos Website Official Website | |
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Birth name Milagros Quezada Borbon Role Singer · millyquezadaonline.com Albums Pienso Asi..., Tesoros de mi tierra, Aqui Estoy Yo Awards Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album, Latin Grammy Award for Best Merengue Album Similar People Ramon Orlando, Juan Luis Guerra, Fernando Villalona, Miriam Cruz, Olga Tanon Profiles | ||
Milly quezada solo contigo
Milagros Quezada Borbón, known simply as Milly Quezada, is a Latin Grammy-winning Dominican Merengue music singer. She is a singer in Latin America; especially in those Latin American countries bordered by the Caribbean Sea, and in the eastern seaboard region of the United States. She is also known as Merengue Queen. She has won four Latin Grammy Awards.
Contents
- Milly quezada solo contigo
- Milly quezada volvio juanita el mejor merengue
- Biography
- Milly Jocelyn y los Vecinos
- Solo career
- Milly y los Vecinos
- As a solo singer
- City Keys
- References
Milly quezada volvio juanita el mejor merengue
Biography
Milly Quezada was born in Santo Domingo, the daughter of two Cibao natives and sister of four musician brothers. Growing up in such a musical family, Quezada became interested in music as a toddler—she would sing along with her brothers for family, friends and small gatherings near her home.
She expressed an interest in developing her singing talents as a young girl, and, partly for this reason the Quezada family moved to New York City when she was still a child.
Milly spent her pre-teen and teen years in New York, a city that is well known as a school for Merengue and Salsa singers from its Latino barrios, e.g. Spanish Harlem. In New York, Quezada developed an in-depth knowledge of her favorite musical genre, the fastest of the Latin American popular dance music styles, sung in Spanish and native to the Dominican Republic (see also Son Cubano, Rumba, Salsa, Cha-Cha-Cha, and Punta for comparison, as well as Kompa, the style sung in Haitian Creole in neighboring Haiti). After graduating from high school in New York, she attended City College of New York, graduating with a university degree in communications.
Milly, Jocelyn y los Vecinos
During the 1980s, Quezada was the lead singer of a family group named Milly, Jocelyn y los Vecinos. The group enjoyed wild international success, producing 20 records, some of which were released in both vinyl and CD format, others only as CD's (as vinyl record album sales declined substantially by the end of the decade).
Solo career
Quezada later decided to embark on a solo career, moving to Puerto Rico where she also married and became a mother, enjoying even more success as a solo artist. Since the 1990s, Quezada has been either on tour or in recording studios almost constantly, earning several prestigious awards and public recognition such as keys to cities (see below).
In May 2005, she began a Dominican Republic tour that included a concert with the legendary Conjunto Quisqueya.
In 2007, Milly recorded a song called "Reencuentro" along with fellow Dominicans Sergio Vargas and Anaís. The original version and Merengue version of the song appear on Anais' album "Con Todo Mi Corazón"
In early 2009, Milly joined eleven other Dominican music legends on a national tour celebrating the merengue and bachata music traditions of the country. That tour was transformed into a Felix Limardo documentary entitled Sol Caribe. The movie features an original song, La Puerta del Nuevo Mundo that is a once in a lifetime collaboration of the twelve stars. The film was the closing feature at the III Dominican Republic Global Film Festival in November, 2009 and was attended by the President of the Dominican Republic.
Milly y los Vecinos
As a solo singer
Quezada has recorded five solo albums, receiving a Latin Grammy for Pienso asi, MQ and Aquí estoy yo.
City Keys
Quezada has received many awards during her career, such as the aforementioned Grammy. Arguably, one of the highest honors a person or celebrity can receive is the "key to a city," usually presented by that city's mayor. Here is a list of cities that have given Quezada that symbolic award: