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- Works
- 2
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- Un poco de mí
- Un poco de mi
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Active from
- 1940
- Active to
- 2021
Discography
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- 27,302
- Total plays
- 142,649
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Johnny Ventura (born Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano, March 8, 1940, La Romana, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican merengue composer and singer, the first to achieve widespread fame outside of the Dominican Republic. He is known throughout the world as the legendary Merenguero, "El Caballo". Ventura and his orchestra, the "Combo Show", added rock and roll elements to the genre in the early 1960s, influenced by the early stars of American rock (including Elvis Presley). <a href="https://www.last.fm
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johnny
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominican Republic
- Place of birth
- Santo Domingo
- Place of death
- Santiago de los Caballeros
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- merengue
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Johnny Ventura El Caballo cropped.jpeg
- Voice type
- baritone
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- date of birth
- 1940-03-08
- Commons category
- Johnny Ventura
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- date of death
- 2021-07-28
- name in native language
- Johnny Ventura
- birth name
- Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano
- end of work period
- 2021-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- social media followers
- 13970
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