Ramón Orlando
Ramón Orlando Valoy García (born 29 July 1959), is a Dominican musician, singer, arranger, composer, record producer and songwriter, besides being a gran maestro pianist in Caribbean rhythms. Orlando received seven Casandra awards in the 1992 ceremony, including the Soberano, which is the most important category in the Dominican awards ceremony. In 2005, he was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award in the Best Merengue Album category.
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Ramón Orlando
- Name
- Ramón Orlando
- Birth Name
- Ramón Orlando Valoy García
- Born
- 29 July 1959
- Birthplace
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Occupation
- * Musician
- Nationality
- Dominican Republic
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Ramón Orlando Valoy García (born 29 July 1959), is a Dominican musician, singer, arranger, composer, record producer and songwriter, besides being a gran maestro pianist in Caribbean rhythms. Orlando received seven Casandra awards in the 1992 ceremony, including the Soberano, which is the most important category in the Dominican awards ceremony. In 2005, he was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award in the Best Merengue Album category.
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• Name — Ramón Orlando • Birth Name — Ramón Orlando Valoy García • Born — 29 July 1959 • Birthplace — Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic • Genre — * Latin • Salsa music • Son muntuno • Bachata • Merengue • Bolero • Guaracha • Occupation — * Musician • Singer • Composer • Arranger • Record producer • Songwriter • Instrument — * Vocals • Keyboards • Piano
Career
Career
Ramón Orlando Valoy was born on 29 July 1959, in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is the son of Cuco Valoy. Ramón Orlando started his music career at age 14, as a singer, piano player, arranger, composer and songwriter in his father's merengue band called La Tribu. He formed his own merengue music band in 1984 called "Los Virtuosos", later renamed “Cuco Valoy y Orquesta” with Peter Cruz y Henry García as lead singers. Years later, the Cuco Valoy group broke up and Ramón moved to Colombia to physically separate himself from the Dominican Republic due to his political differences with the Dominican president Joaquín Balaguer. Ramón Orlando then undertook a more ambitious musical project. He and then-famous merengue singers Peter Cruz and Henry García formed La Orquesta Internacional (The International Orchestra), in which Ramón Orlando intended to be the composer and musical director, while Cruz and García were intended to be the vocalists. However, of the first ten "single" songs to be recorded (and released individually), Ramón chose to sing four of them himself, which caused a split in the group. Peter Cruz and Henry García then each formed a short-lived group. Upon the two vocalists' departure, Ramón Orlando quickly hired some vocalists with voices sounding similar to those of Cruz and García in order to perform songs already gaining airplay. Ramón Orlando is also the composer of the theme El venao, which found a large audience in several Latin American countries including Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Ramón Orlando shares with Juan Luis Guerra the greatest Soberano Award in 1992. He was a nominee in the Latin Grammy Awards of 2005 for the Best Merengue Album (Generaciones) in the tropical category. Ramón Orlando serves as a pastor in a Protestant church.
Arrangements
Arrangements
Ramon Orlando is a prolific arranger of latin music including merengue, salsa, bachata and ballads. During his ongoing career, he has completed more than 2,000 arrangements for his band, for Los Virtuosos, La Tribu, Los Cantantes, Cuco Valoy, and for other artists including Alberto Beltrán, Fernando Villalona, Alex Bueno, Milly Quezada, Rubby Pérez, Wilfrido Vargas, Luys Bien, Miriam Cruz, Manny Manuel, among others. The following are some of well-known or recent arrangements by Ramón Orlando: • Song title — Lyricist(s) — Artist(s) — Release — Year released • 15,500 Noches — Romeo Santos — Romeo Santos Featuring Rubby Pérez, Toño Rosario and Fernando Villalona, and Ramón Orlando — Fórmula Vol. 3 — 2022 • Latidos de Tambor — Cristino Gómez — Ramón Orlando and Luys Bien — Latidos de Tambor - Single — 2022 • Perdidos — Ramón Orlando — Ramón Orlando and Raquel Arias — Perdidos - Single — 2022 • Creíste — Ramón Orlando — Antony Santos — Creíste - Single — 2013 • El Perro Ajeno — Ramón Orlando — Rubby Pérez — Tonto Corazón — 2004 • Yo Soy — Ramón Orlando — Ramón Orlando and Milly Quezada — Generaciones — 2004 • Meneando La Cola — Ramón Orlando — ULS (Lead vocals by Sexappeal) — United Latin for Salsa — 2000 • Maniquí — Ramón Orlando — Manny Manuel — Rey De Corazones — 1995 • El Venano — Ramón Orlando — Los Cantantes de Ramón Orlando — El Virao — 1995 • La Loba — Ramón Orlando — Miriam y las Chicas — Nueva Vida — 1993 • De Qué Me Sirvió Quererte — Reynaldo Armas — Ramón Orlando y su Orquesta Internacional — Orquesta Internacional — 1986 • Volveré — Ignacio Roman Jimenez and Francisco Lopez Cepero Garcia — Wilfrido Vargas (Lead vocals by Rubby Pérez) — La Medicina "Wilfrido 86" — 1985 • Cometa Blanca — Ignacio Roman Jimenez and Francisco Lopez Cepero Garcia — Peter Cruz — Orquesta Internacional — 1985 • Si Piensas Que No Te Amo — Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K Ulvaeus and Stig Erik Leopold Anderson — Ramón Orlando — La Tribu de Cuco Valoy — 1984 • Sé Que Te Perdí — Mauricio Cardozo — Fernandito — Fernandito — 1984 • Te Extraño — Ramón Orlando — Cuco Valoy y La Tribu — Qué Será Lo Que Quiere El Negro? — 1983 • Frutos del Carnaval — Cuco Valoy — Cuco Valoy & Los Virtuosos — Sin Comentarios... — 1981 • Juliana — Cuco Valoy — Cuco Valoy — Salsa Con Coco — 1978
Awards
Ramón Orlando received in 1992 the highest award given by Soberano Awards; that year he received 7 awards, for which Ramón Orlando holds the record of receiving the most Soberano Awards in a ceremony. In 2005, he was nominated to the 6th Annual Latin Grammy Awards as Best Merengue Album with Generaciones.
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- 1.Dos genios de la música. Listin Diario News. June 12, 2009.
- 2.Ramón Orlando: El Maestro de la Música. Conectate RD. 29 July 2019.
- 3.Complete list of 6th annual Latin Grammy nominations. 4 November 2005.
- 4.Ramon Orlando exhorta a no vulgarizar los ritmos. El Nuevo Diario. 23 September 2012.
- 5.Ramón Orlando: "Mi papá siempre supo que yo sería un artista". Listin Diario Newspaper. 5 October 2017.
- 6.Polanco, Fausto. Ramón Orlando Valoy, biografía, trayectoria y la discografía de un maestro. El Portal.com.do. 27 February 2013.
- 7.Ramos, Jorge. Ramón Orlando asegura que salvó el merengue con nuevo disco. Hoy. 9 September 2004.
- 8.Ramos, Jorge. El Soberano el premio más codiciado. Hoy. 9 March 2009.
- 9.Ramos, Jorge. Expectativas por dominicanos en Grammy Latinos. Hoy. 1 November 2005.
- 10.Cruz Hierro, Ynmaculada. Ramón Orlando asegura que salvó el merengue con nuevo disco. Hoy. 26 January 2011.
- 11.Polanco del Orbe, Fausto. Ramón Orlando, el maestro con miles de arreglos y cientos de composiciones. El.Portal.com.do. 19 May 2020.
- 12."Mujer amiga", nuevo merengue con arreglos de Ramón Orlando. La Información. 12 January 2022.
- 13.Polanco, Fausto. Ramón Orlando Valoy es arreglista de miles éxitos. El Día. 19 May 2020.
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