Singer Johnny Ventura is no longer

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Nicknamed “El Caballo Mayor” (Big Horse), Johnny Ventura, who had also been deputy mayor of Santo Domingo the Dominican capital, produced more than 100 albums becoming an icon of Caribbean and Latina music.

He was notably the author of the hits Martin’s death, Dilemma Where cable and sail.

We can especially hear his music in Blood for Blood the Coen brothers (1984) or The Enchanted by John Schlesinger (1987).

Dominican President Luis Abinader has decreed three days of national mourning on July 29, 30 and 31 in homage to Ventura, his real Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano who will be entitled to military honors.

“For your music and your heritage, for your smile and your example, for your good humor and for showing us all what merengue is!” Thank you Don Johnny ”Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra wrote on twitter.

Former President Leonel Fernandez (1996-2000) hailed him “a glory of merengue, an exceptional human being and a tireless defender of the Constitution. Its artistic and patriotic heritage is a symbol of “Dominicanity” ”.

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