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He would then go into a period of drugs and isolation but never stopped singing, recording some of his best music during that period. Songs such as "Tabaco y Ron," "Celos," "Te Amo
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singer. Considered to be one of the most important merengue artists in the genre's history, Villalona began singing in the early 1970s; his popularity started to grow by the late 1970s and has not declined ever since. He is the first
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