Mexican Luis Miguel not only recorded the song “Until You Forget Me” by a Dominican, in this case Juan Luis Guerra. Another, of the same height in writing, was performed by “The Sun.”
“And what did you do with the love you gave me? And what did you do with the kisses I gave you?”, Asked at the beginning of the 21st century the romantic generation that enjoyed in a voice of Luis Miguel the emblematic song of the Dominican Mario de Jesús Báez and who titled “i”. This is the shortest title for a Hispanic musical theme.
The composition dates from October 23, 1960 when the Dominican, who had been born San Pedro de Macorís in 1924, stood out in Mexico as an author of letters.
Luis Miguel launched it in 2000 as part of “Viu”, the Mexican singer’s third live album.
The production was filmed in the Coca-Cola Auditorium concert hall in Monterrey, Mexico, where Luis Miguel performed from April 13 to 17, 2000, as part of the second stage of his tour “Love- tea is a pleasure tour “.
In this disc, “Viu” it is including the subject “The Bikina”, that next to “I” they were recorded during the concerts of his tour “To love you is a pleasure tour”, in Mexico, where it was united to the band Mariachi 2000 by Cutberto Pérez.
Before Luis Miguel the composition of Mario de Jesus was interpreted by other great voices, like those of Javier Solís and Lucho Gatica.
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In addition to “? And”, other Dominican titles are “? Forward” ?, “? This bolero is mine?”, “? Let them die of envy” ?, “Let’s get lost” ?, ” “Fire kisses”? and “? Do I feel hurt?”, “Help me my God,” among so many.
The most powerful voices of the middle of the 20th century recorded their lyrics: Javier Solís, Els Panchos, Vicente Fernández Roberto Yanes, Olga Guillot, Marc Antoni Muñiz, Julio Iglesias, Plácido Domingo …
His repertoire includes more than 300 songs, which invites him to be valued in the lineage of Rafael Hernández or José Alfredo Jiménez, not only for the quality of his songs, but also for the variety of themes and rhythms. in which he moved.
Prior to fame, Mario de Jesús worked as a customs bureaucrat, a job he shared with that of show reporter, both for the newspaper La Nación and for the magazine Saló Fígaro in Santo Domingo and, later, in the Revista Teatral in New York, where he emigrated in 1946. He was 22 years old.
In the big city, he opened his first artistic recruitment office in 1949 and later got the representation of the record company Verne, which is where he began his direct relationship with musicians and singers.
It was from 1959 when he went to Mexico as manager of Peer International in Mexico, that Mario enhances his ability to inspire songs.
In 1952 he achieved great success with his song “Don’t touch this record”, recorded by Benvinguda Granda with the group La Sonora Matancera.