LATIN AMERICAN MODEL

Mickey Taveras is inclined to the merengue music inspired by all the
Dominicans artists who stood out in this genre since the 70s. He
always prefered Wilfrido Vargas who later would serve as a
springboard to international fame. He also knew that Joselito Mateo,
Jhonny Ventura, Felix del Rosario, Fernando Villalona, Juan Luis
Guerra, Ramon Orlando, Cuco Valoy, Dionis Fernández, Sergio
Vargas and Luis Ovalle were also part of his inspiration for being an
artist of the merengue music.
Later he joined the orchestra of Luis Ovalle, Yerry Vargas, Peter
Cruz, Ruby Perez and the orchestra of Wilfrido Vargas in both
musician and singer, and in the orchestra of Wilfrido Vargas also as
singer and musical producer. With Wilfrido Vargas, he stood out as
singer of songs like Atrevida, 13 Años, Bachata Merengue and more.
These 3 songs consecutively won the Award El Casandra as
Merengue of the year with the voice of Mickey Taveras. After a 5-
year contract he leaved the Wilfrido Vargas Orchestra and decided to
realize his own musical project and parallelly to compose for other
artists.
La Ventanita, first performed by the great artist Sergio Vargas, was a
demonstration of the capacity of Mickey Taveras as author, as it has
been recorded by 58 different artists in different versions, for example
by the Mexican group Garibaldi, the band Sombras from Argentina
and Daniel Angostini, among others. The Colombian singer Charlie
Zaa interpreted 4 songs of Mickey Taveras in his production Ciego de
amor, wich was produced by Mr. Emilio Estefan and José Antonio
Molina.
The company Karen Records contracted Mickey Taveras as
exclusive artist and composer of his record label; and starting with
that label, he remained for 10 years recording productions like
"Lucharé, Más romántico and Sigo siendo romántico". The first
production "Lucharé" was a worldwide sale success, mainly in
Central and South America and the United States. Reaching from
gold to quintuple platinum on his sales in Colombia rising to 500,000
copies; including on this production is the song "Me gustas" with
which Taveras won the prize for the best performer in the festival
Viñas del Mar in 1996.