Zacharias Ferreira

Name: Zacharias Ferreira
Date of birth: 1970
Place of birth: Tamboril, Dominican Republic

Zacarías Ferreira is a Bachata artist from the Dominican Republic. Ferreira was born in the cigar-manufacturing town of Tamboril, near Santiago in the Cibao region of the northwestern Dominican Republic. The region is famous for merengue périco ripao, the traditional Dominican music and his family, all big music lovers, filled his childhood home with the music spurring Zacarías on to dream of becoming a musical artist himself.

Music Career
The desire to improve himself motivated him to leave for the country’s capital, Santo Domingo, where he joined the Conservatorio Nacional and also sang in a local bachata group.

Ferreira then became a member of the Brugal rum company orchestra, where he remained for five years. His debut album, Me Liberé, was released in 1997 and won the prestigious Dominican music award, the Cassandra. Three years later his second album, El Triste, won the award for him for a second time.

In the winter of 2001, Ferreira travelled to the United States for the first time and played 77 gigs in just six-and-a-half weeks in New York.

Discography:
1997 Me Libere
2000 El Triste
2001 Adios
2003 Novia Mia
2005 El Amor Vencerá 
2006 Quiereme
2006 12 Exitos
2006 La Historia de Voz de La Ternura
2007 Dime Que Falto
2007 Grande Voces: Los Duros De La Bachata (Zacarías Ferreira and Antony Santos)

 
By Lourd Vijay
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About the Author: Lourd Vijay is the principal Promoter of Latin culture, music and dance in the Asian Region. He recently stood 10th at the “most Popular Entrepreneur of the year 2009” amongst 180 nominees from across the country. An innovative choreographer and a very able instructor, he is the director of the Lourd Vijay’s Dance Studios (www.lvds.in) in India.