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Sergio Pascual Vargas Parra (, Dominican Republic, March 15, 1960) is a performer of and , who was very popular in the 80s and 90s, during the "Golden Age of Merengue" and today remains active as one of the leading figures in Dominican merengue. His brothers, Kaki and Johnny, are also performers of the genre and have been by his side for much of their respective musical careers.

Vargas was a deputy for the Dominican Liberation Party representing his people Villa Altagracia in the period 2006–2010.


Career
Known as El negrito de Villa, Vargas participated in the Festival of the Voice organized by the Dominican musician , where he finished second. Two years later in 1982, he became part of the Dionis Fernández orchestra. In this orchestra, Sergio came to perform great hits like "The designers", "To the rhythm of the night", "A man and a woman", among others. After this, Sergio went on to reinforce the orchestra "Los Hijos del Rey" as lead vocalist. This orchestra in its beginnings was led by Fernando Villalona and Raulín Rosendo. It was in this group that its popularity began to grow, so much so that the group had fan clubs in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama and the East Coast of the United States.

In 1986 Sergio released his first LP under the Karen Records label. This LP includes the single "La quiero a morir" ( I Love Her to Death), which is the Spanish version of "Je l'aime à mourir" by the French singer . In 1987 he recorded another album with Los Hijos del Rey titled "the earth quaked", with which he achieved great success. At the moment Sergio launched as a soloist, most of the musicians left with him, except for Diómedes Nuñez and shortly after Orvis García. The arrangements for this production are by Sonny Ovalles and his pianist Juan Valdez. The singles of this production are "Ciclón (indoor party)", "Marola", "On the other side of the sun", "Bamboleo", "This humble house", "Days of June" and "Black Pearl".


Albums / LP
  • I love her to death (1986)
  • The Earth Trembled (1987)
  • Cyclone (Festa do interior) (1988)
  • The unconditional (1989)
  • This is my country (1991)
  • Bullfighter (1992)
  • By H or by R (1993)
  • The meringue is danced and danced (1994)
  • Like a bolero (1994)
  • Love Fraud (1995)
  • Just Meringue (1995)
  • My proposal (1996)
  • Time of love (1997)
  • Together (1998)
  • On-time (1999)
  • Once Upon a Meringue (1999)
  • Another era (with Los Panchos) (1999)
  • From Sergio Vargas to José Feliciano (2000)
  • Go and tell him (2001)
  • Bohemian Live (2003)
  • Bohemian (2004)
  • His successes in bachata (2004)
  • New, old and half-used loves (2009)


Compilations
  • The Golden Years (1994)
  • The Best (1994)
  • Brilliant (with ) (1994)
  • Musical history (1995)
  • Success Story (1995)
  • Face to face (with ) (1997)
  • The man and its meringue (1998)
  • Big hits (1999)
  • Meringue gold (2000)
  • Series 2000 (2000)
  • Between friends (with Fernando Villalona) (2000)
  • Meringue (2001)
  • 22 Ultimate Hits (2002)
  • Together (2002)
  • Gold Collection: 15 Successes (2002)
  • Tropical Blue Series (2003)
  • 15 Favorite Songs (2003)
  • Diamond Collection (2004)
  • Sabrosonas of the memory (2005)
  • 20 years are nothing (2005)
  • 20 original hits (2005)
  • 2 great voices of Quisqueya the beautiful (with ) (2007)
  • Collectible 10 (2007)
  • A singer, 3 facets, a great artist (2008)
  • My favorites (2010)
  • Face to face (with Toño Rosario) (2013)
  • Great voices of the century collection


Songs
With the Children of the King
  • For her
  • My pride
  • A Man and a Woman
  • Je l'aime à mourir (I love her to death)
  • Oh Mariana
  • The earth quaked
  • Let's leave it
  • If you ever see her

With Dionis Fernández & Orquesta

  • The designers
  • To the rhythm of the night

With The Singer Arena

  • Is not easy

As soloist

  • Marola (written by Luis Días)
  • The earth quaked
  • The vampires
  • Girlfriend
  • Too bad for so much love
  • Ragdoll (salsa)
  • The little window
  • Heart of stone
  • The pill
  • tell him
  • Sorrows to the wind
  • Magic
  • A cigarette, the rain and you
  • Like a bolero
  • Women
  • Neither you nor I
  • Bad memory
  • Oh my god
  • What have you believed
  • Lost bullet
  • Go and tell
  • What's up sweetheart
  • It is going to hurt you
  • Last night we talked about love
  • Tell me where
  • My brunette


Covers
  • Je l'aime à mourir, (by the French singer )
  • Bamboléo (from the Spanish flamenco group )
  • This humble house (by the Brazilian singer )
  • Black Pearl (from the Venezuelan singer )
  • The unconditional (from singer )
  • I try to forget you (played by Nicaraguan Hernaldo Zúñiga); composed by Manuel Alejandro.
  • Bullfighter (with José Alberto "El Canario"; original song by and José Luis Rodríguez)
  • Until you forget me (performed by and written by Juan Luis Guerra)
  • Oh! woman (originally performed by Juan Luis Guerra)
  • Scandal (played by Javier Solís)
  • Forgive me, forget it (with Gisselle; originally performed by Juan Gabriel and [[Rocío Dúrcal)
  • To say goodbye (with Gisselle; originally performed by José Feliciano and Ann Kelly)
  • That which you gave me (interpreted by )
  • El negrito del Batey (played by Alberto Beltrán)
  • The Broken Cup (originally performed by José Feliciano)
  • After you what? (originally performed by José Feliciano)
  • Why do I have to forget you? (originally performed by José Feliciano)
  • Tell Me Heart (originally performed by Amaury Gutiérrez)
  • What once was will not be (originally performed by José José)
  • I live for her (originally performed by and Marta Sánchez]])
  • To live (composed and performed by Pablo Milanés)


Achievements
In 2018 he received the Great Sovereign during the celebration of the 2018 Sovereign Awards, where he thanked his award with a speech in favor of education for Dominican musicians.

In 1988 he was awarded by the Association of Art Writers of the Dominican Republic with a for his concert titled Sergio. This concert was awarded as a show of the year. Sergio Vargas also won the Casandra award for the best video clip for the song "Las vampires" by the composer Luis Días.

In 1989 offered him a record deal. After much contemplation, he left Karen Records and signed with CBS.

In 1991 it was a very productive year for Sergio Vargas' career; after participating in the television program "This is my country" he was awarded the Casandra (today called sovereign awards) award. He also received the Casandra award for his international projection and singing in places like New York's Madison Square Garden in front of 20,000 spectators at the Merengue Carnival. Under the direction of producer and director Jean Louis Jorge. Sergio shot a special program for .

In 1993 he received a gold record, and was also one of the singers who participated in the famous Eight Street Festival in the city of Miami.

In 2018 in the largest demonstration held to artists in the Dominican Republic called awards . Sergio Vargas had a special participation in the awards. After the participation, they gave him the recognition as THE GREAT SOVEREIGN (artist of greatest importance in the Dominican Republic and internationally).

In 2021, Vargas won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Merengue/Bachata Album.

Today Sergio is known and recognized as the artist of the Homeland and his group one of the most active orchestras in the field. Countries such as Colombia, Cali, Bogota, Santa Marta, Cucuta, Ocaña, Medellin, among others, recognize Sergio as the favorite merengue of all time. His fame is so great that even in the city of Cali in the town of (Chipichapi) there are hotels that bear his name in his main suid.


Golden Congos
Awarded at the Barranquilla Carnival Orchestra Festival at the Barranquilla Carnival:

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Activism
During the term of Hipólito Mejía (2000–2004), Sergio Vargas decided to stop cutting his hair in protest until the government fixed all the streets of his hometown . To this day, Sergio still has his long hair, for Sergio, not cutting his hair is a symbol of a and he always has his roots in mind and the constant struggle for to be recognized as what he is today.

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