Vinyl records

Damiron vinyl records

1 album with 14 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Francisco Alberto Simó Damirón. An authentic Dominican musical legend, he was born to Theodore Simó Knipping and Mercedes Damirón in San Francisco De Macorís on November 21st, 1908. Starting in 1932 he took his style of merengue music to different parts of the world and became a pioneer of the international projection of that rhythm. He performed with Negrito Chapuseaux and the Panamanian singer Sylvia DeGrasse asa group known as "". Without damaging the originality of the Dominican music, Damiron introduced the piano merengue, or specifically, the merengue played in a piano solo. Damiron was the composer of Dolorita, La Empalizá and La Maricutana, in addition to another 300 merengues.