Milly Quezada

Milagros del Rosario " Milly " Quezada Borbón ( born May 21, 1955 in Santo Domingo ), known as " La Reyna del Merengue ", is a Dominican singer.

Quezada emigrated in 1965 with her ​​family to the United States. With her ​​siblings and Rafael Martin she founded in 1975 in New York her band Milly Con Los Vecinos (later Milly, Jocelyn y Los Vecinos ), with whom she recorded her first album the following year. With titles like La Guacherna, volvio Juanita Tengo and the group in the 1970s and 1980s had large, even international success.

It also made recordings with the label Algar Records Barón Records, CBS Internacional, VO Records, and Sony Music Tropic Sun Tropical. In 1995, Quezada to the thought of her late husband and manager Rafael Vásquez En Tus Manos on the album. 1997 was at Sony Discos her first solo album Hasta Siempre, which was also dedicated to her husband.

In 1998, the album Milly Quezada Vive on. For the duo Para Darte Mi Vida with Elvis Crespo from this production, she was awarded the Premio lo Nuestro in the category Dúo Tropical. In 1999 she received the album a Billboard Music Award for Album tropical femenino, the same production at the Teatro Nacional de Santo Domingo a Premio Casandra.

Quezada 2001 the Premio Casandra received as Singer of the Year and was honored by President Hipólito Mejía with the Orden de Cristobal Colon. With the album Pienso Asi she won again in 2003 a Billboard Award, as well as a Grammy and a Latin Grammy. Was similarly successful 2005 album MQ (including the composition Quiero Ser by Ramón Orlando ) for an appearance at the Carnaval de Barranquilla in Colombia, she was honored with the 2006 El Congo del Oro.

In the same year Quezada debuted as an actress in the Dominican film Juniol. In 2008, she was awarded in the auditorium of Columbia University by the Dominican Embassy of the Order of al Merito Ciudadano.