DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

“Merengue do Brasil” is the new, unprecedented collection of seven iconic songs of Brazil arranged to the merengue’s beat. The songs are in the legendary voices of Milly Quezada, Maridalia Hernández, Víctor Víctor, Johnny Ventura. Víctor Tolentino and Bilma Olivence also are part of the album.

Producer and arranger Jochy Sánchez chose the songs:“Aquarela do Brasil”, “Berimbau”, “Insensatez”, “Desafinado”, “Madalena”, “Wave” and “Chega de saudade.” The songs are sung in Portuguese.

“Merengue Do Brasil” is available on Spotify,Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and Deezer. The first promotional single “Aquarela do Brasil”, featuring a performance by Milly Quezada, is available on YouTube for free.

Producer Jochy Sánchez explains that the project was bornin 2008 but took him 12 years to launch. As time went by, in 2018 the merengue would be awarded the category of...