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Vitin Aviles
12+ albums
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Vitin Aviles Singer and composer FULL NAME: Víctor Manuel Avilés Rojas DATE OF BIRTH: September 30, 1924 PLACE OF BIRTH: Barrio San Silvestre, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico DEATH: January 1, 2004 in Manhattan, New York (USA) Víctor Manuel Avilés Rojas' artistic career, known to all as Vitín Avilés, included fruitful internships by several of the most celebrated orchestras of Afro-Argentine music, record collaborations with so many and successful stages as a soloist. This admired singer was described by the most demanding critics as a good rumbero as bolerista. Put in clear words, it is a versatile and unique style interpreter. In the opinion of many of his followers, his greatest merit was to have been selected by Xavier Cugat as lead singer of the album "Merengue by Cugat!" (CBS, DKC-10454), recorded in 1955, responding to the request of the then Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. This production continues to be considered the most successful, worldwide, in the history of merengue. Ironically, the name of Vitín Avilés would reach full star chart after 1974, after more than 30 years of intense artistic work, during which he played prominently in about 40 albums of traditional Cuban music and salsa, accompanied by bands and stellar ensembles . That year he recorded the boleros album "Canta al amor" (Alegre, SALP-8676) that generated three hits: "I was more loyal" and "Why now?" (By Bobby Capó) and "Temes" (by Tite Curet Alonso). This production is considered a classic of
