Word: villalona
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...rock establishment disdained this music that had such corny (harmonic) changes and featured entire bands in matching polyester, bell- bottom leisure suits," wrote Critic Enrique Fernandez in the Village Voice. But newly rediscovered merengue stars like Fernandito Villalona not only could sing on the sound track of Miami Vice but have the wardrobe for a guest shot as well. "Dominican bands look sharp," Fernandez points out. "Merengueros are image conscious. They've learned the lesson...
...fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups' games for fear he would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister's husband, Prospero Villalona, were baseball nuts too. By the time he was nine, Juan could throw a curve (his lopsided, homemade baseballs wouldn't do anything else), and he quit school after the eleventh grade "because I was crazy about the game...
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