{"id":481265,"date":"2025-09-03T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/chamber-of-deputies-will-recognize-musician-juan-valdez-and-composer-mario-diaz\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:42:53","slug":"chamber-of-deputies-will-recognize-musician-juan-valdez-and-composer-mario-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/chamber-of-deputies-will-recognize-musician-juan-valdez-and-composer-mario-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber of Deputies will recognize musician Juan Valdez and composer Mario D\u00edaz"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.- <\/strong>The Chamber of Deputies <\/a>approved in Tuesday’s session a resolution project through which it recognizes the arranger, musician, composer and Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Valdez Ybet, and another to the composer Mario D\u00edaz, for their successful careers in art and their contributions to Dominican culture.\n\nBoth legislative initiatives are authored by Congressman<\/a> Rafael Castillo, who motivated them, arguing that both artists have had an impeccable career, managing to go beyond the Dominican Republic, one composing and making music for different singers and the other making songs for famous salsa and merengue singers.\n\n\n

Read more: RD deputies express solidarity over the assassination of Andriy Parubiy, former president of the Ukrainian Parliament<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nRegarding Juan Valdez, his first opportunity as an arranger and pianist was given to him by Los Hermanos Rosario with the merengue El Chicharr\u00f3n, a song that opened the doors for him in the country’s recording studios.\n\nAfter the death of Pepe Rosario, which occurred on March 19, 1983, they integrated him as a pianist in the orchestra for a few months and traveled to the United States for the first time.\n\nThat same year he joined the Aramis Camilo and the Secret Organization group, of which he was a pianist and music producer for several years. With this band he arranged the songs El alicate, Hello, Nena, Si la ven and others. With Aramis he also recorded piano in the merengues El motor and Joselyn.\n\nHis piano has also been captured in songs by Alex Bueno, Sergio Vargas, Pl\u00e1cido Domingo Hijo, Fernando Villalona, Manny Manuel, Olga Ta\u00f1\u00f3n, Los Toros Band, The New York Band, Luis D\u00edas, Michell, Asdr\u00fabal, F\u00e9lix Manuel and F\u00e9lix D\u2019 \u00d3leo, among other artists.\n\nHe is the composer of the songs by H or by R, by Sergio Vargas; Como nadie, by Alex Bueno; El amor, by Richie Ricardo; Ilusi\u00f3n de amor, by David Kada, and Sirenita and Boquita de cereza, by Pablo Mart\u00ednez, among others.\n\n\n

Great composer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nAbout the composer Mario D\u00edaz, he said that he has made great musical compositions for merengue and salsa artists from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Colombia.\n\nAmong his compositions, “El palacio” by Charlie Rodr\u00edguez stands out; “Qu\u00e9 me dice usted” by Dioni Fern\u00e1ndez, “Por eso” in the voice of the group Triada; “La m\u00fasica” by Pablo Mart\u00ednez and La Muralla; “Cu\u00e1nta vida” for Sergio Vargas, among other songs.\n\nIn the salsa rhythm he wrote “I am not automatic”, for Tommy Oliovencia; “Let’s communicate”, by Oscar de Le\u00f3n; “Motorize me”, by H\u00e9ctor Tricoche; “I’m back”, sung by Willie Gonz\u00e1lez; Az\u00facar negra, for Celia Cruz; Voy a Escarbar tu Cuerpo”, for Lalo Rodr\u00edguez and “Amor de Colegio” for Jerry Rivera, among other musical themes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.- The Chamber of Deputies approved in Tuesday’s session a resolution project through which it recognizes the arranger, musician, composer and Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Valdez Ybet, and another to the composer Mario D\u00edaz, for their successful careers in art and their contributions to Dominican culture. Both legislative initiatives are authored by Congressman Rafael Castillo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":481266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40597,42190],"class_list":["post-481265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-chamber-of-deputies","tag-composer"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21cl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Plantilla-para-portal-63.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Plantilla-para-portal-63.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}