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Chivirico Davila
12+ albums
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Rafael Chivirico Dávila Rosado was born in San Andres Street in Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico; On August 2, 1924. His parents, Eustaquio Dávila, a native of San Juan and a dobbing trader at the docks, and his mother Juana Rosario, a native of Bayamón, dedicated to household chores. He was one of the most versatile singers of the Caribbean pentagram, besides being one of the most extraordinary singers of boleros, he was also a natural sonero and an unequaled singer of the bomb and the full, genres of Puerto Rican popular music, as he proved In his great successes and songs of the street that Cortijo and Kako registered for the record label Ansonia. Its history goes back to the fifties when, in a modest way, with the maestro of Mambo Pérez Prado, the atmosphere of the great metropolis gives him the opportunity to join bands of virtuous young people who in the sixties would begin to be recognized as the leaders of the Salsero movement. And where does the Chivirico come from? According to Rafael Quintero, who gave him an interview with Rafael Dávila, he told him the following: "El Chivirico comes from a great singer who was a friend of mine, Orlando Guerra Cascarita." There was a jam in Havana, saying: When we were making a recording, the producer asked for me: "What's the name of this?" I said my name and he said, "Well, everyone here is called Rafitas. I recorded two Rafitas: Rafita Martinez and I Rafita Dávila Cascarita intervened and told the Producer: If this one
