Milly Quezada
Milly Quezada was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on May 21st, 1955 and is the World Music Singer. At the age of 69, Milly Quezada biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Milagros Quezada Borbón, also known as Milly Quezada, was born in 1955 and is a multiple Latin Grammy-winning Dominican Merengue music performer.
She is a singer in Latin America, particularly in those Latin American countries bordered by the Caribbean Sea and in the US's eastern seaboard region.
She is also known as Merengue Queen.
She has received four Latin Grammy Awards.
Early life
Milagros Quezada Borbón was born in Santo Domingo, the daughter of two Cibao residents and the sister of four musician brothers. Quezada, the youngest in such a musical family, became interested in music as a child—she'll sing with her brothers for family, acquaintance, and small gatherings near her house.
She expressed an interest in developing her singing abilities as a child, and her Quezada family migrated to New York City when she was a teenager.
Milly spent her youth and teens in New York, a city that is well known as a center for Merengue and Salsa singers from its Latino barrios, e.g. Harlem, Spain. Quezada's in-depth knowledge of her favorite musical style, the fastest of Latin American popular dance music styles, sung in Spanish and native to the Dominican Republic, as well as Kompa, the style sung in Haitian Creole.
She attended her primary and secondary school in New York City and graduated with the City College of New York (1981) in Communications and Mass Media. She also graduated from Katherine Gibbs School, Montclair, NJ, with a Paralegal degree in1992.
Personal life
Quezada married Rafael Vázquez from 1976 to 1996, before his death in 1996. He served as her boss. Miguel, Anthony, and Rafael Jess had three children, so they had three boys.
Quezada was a close friend and protégé of singer, band founder, and politician Johnny Ventura. Quezada performed tributes to him in her concerts after his death in 2021.
Career
Her musical inclinations developed as a pastime in the streets of Washington Heights where she formed with her brothers and sister, the group that would become known as Milly, Jocelyn & Los Vecinos. Their music would identify the growing Hispanic Community of Dominicans in Washington Heights and their distinctly feminist style of Merengue captured the hearts and imagination of the growing Hispanic Community. Hits that would rise in popularity during the ‘70s 80s and 90s include "Volvio Juanita," “La Guacherna," “Tengo," and many other songs that would go on to become Christmas hits on national and international music platforms. Led by her oldest brother and musical arranger, Rafael Quezada, the "Queen of Merengue" along with the group would travel worldwide and become pioneers in the female-led musical Orchestra modality. They were first to bring live Dominican Merengue to major cities in Japan: Tokyo, Nagasaki and Osaka and regularly tour countries such as Madrid, Spain, Central and South America and many states with the United States where the Dominican Diaspora thrived. The group was also first in entertaining a Presidential Inaugural Gala in 1990: President George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C.
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 January 1996, after the death of her husband and manager, Rafael Vázquez, Quezada took a break from her musical career which had reached twenty years and twenty long playing records at this tragic moment in her life and the lives of her family. In 1997 she was encouraged by her longtime friend and manager, Pedro Nuñez del Risco, to retake her musical recording career which marked a "before" and "after" in her musical accomplishments. Following Vázquez's death, Quezada went on to release and popularize songs like, "Lo Tengo Todo" “Entre tu Cuerpo y el Mío" “Porque me Amaste, "Para darte mi Vida" “Vive" “Toma mi Vida" amongst many other songs.
In more recent years, Quezada has released music that collaborated with various artists such as Fefita la Grande, Maridalia Hernández, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Pavel Núñez, Héctor Acosta, the Ilegales, Romeo Santos, and Olga Tañón. Many of these collaborations were on her 2019 album, "Milly & Company". In 2020, Quezada released "Gracias A Ti", a song thanking frontline workers for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic after the deadly impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers.
In 2022, Quezada published her thirty-fifth release, Resistirá, with Chris Hierro, the son of singer Henry Hierro. On July 29, she released a remix of the song "Se Busca" with Alexandra, La Ross Maria, and Techy Fatule.