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MioSoty is an award-winning American Latin singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, choreographer, television personality, producer, and model. Her career began as a teenager, singing merengue for nearly two years with popular Dominican singer Wilfrido Vargas and five years with The New York Band. She branched off as a solo salsa singer in 1997 during the resurgence of the genre and other forms of Latin music. Although a member of the younger generation of Latin music artists, she is best known for her classic singing style. ==Background== MioSoty was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. She grew up listening to merengue and salsa, and her parents took her and her siblings to numerous music festivals all over New York. Among the first Latin music festivals she remembered attending as a toddler featured Wilfrido Vargas. Her father frequently woke the rest of the household on Saturday mornings by blasting a merengue song and playing along (with trumpet, maracas, güiro, or tambora). Her family recognized her precocious talents and arranged for her to begin formal piano, vocal, and flamenco dance lessons at age five. Her diverse but solid and thorough musical training continued through college, including opera, musical theatre, gospel, and R&B. Her vocal coaches included Broadway singer/songwriter/composer /actor Jimmy Justice, Dominican lyric soprano Ivonne Haza, Dominican dramatic tenor Rafael Sanchez Cestero, and jazz pianist / vocalist Reggie Segars. Her acting instructors included Susan Rybin and Harry Gahynor. In 1989 she was signed to producer Ralph Mercado’s RMM Records with The New York Band. Mercado introduced young listeners to new salsa artists such as Marc Anthony and La India. Five years before salsa had been considered a dead genre, but it was then experiencing not simply resurgence but an explosion of interest, among Latino and white listeners alike. As a teen-ager MioSoty mastered a diverse range of Latin musical genres, playing cumbia, Tex-Mex, rancheras, salsa, and merengue, as well as pop, soul, dance, and R&B, sung in both Spanish and English. She began singing professionally at thirteen and performed with merengue star Wilfrido Vargas for two years. When her parents returned to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic she worked with the Altamira Banda Show, as advised by Vargas, before returning to New York to continue her studies. She spent five years recording and touring with The New York Band, a well known salsa/merengue quartet also featuring Cherito Jiménez, Alexandra, and Johnny. (Alexandra was replaced by Maggie in 1992. Maggie was replaced by Yudith in 1994, and Johnny's replacement was Tony in 1991). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MioSoty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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