Toño Rosario Informations

Máximo Antonio del Rosario (born November 3, 1955), commonly known as Toño Rosario, is a Grammy-award nomineeMerengue musician.

Rosario is best known for his Merengue numbers. As a member of Los Hermanos Rosario, Rosario has been a key figure in popularizing Merengue music, with hits reaching the top of the Billboard Latin charts and the top of charts in Europe. Rosario is the top selling Merengue artist of all time. The three-time Grammy nominee has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Romantic Merengue renditions.

Toño Rosario and his brothers were always interested in music. From young, they recall finding whatever instruments they could in household items since they were born in poverty and could not afford real musical instruments. The group in which Toño started his musical career was formed in 1978 and its name is "Los Hermanos Rosario": it consisted of himself, his brothers Pepe and Rafa (as the lead singers) and brothers Luis, Tony and Francis (as the instrument players). They used to play in their neighbors houses and this is how they eventually got to be known and discovered. After the death of their brother Pepe, Toño and Rafa took the lead in the band with Toño as the main singer due to his unique and highly recognized voice.

In the late 1980s, after 12 years of being with his brothers, Toño was kicked out of the group and began his own solo career. He debuted on April 14, 1990, in the Roberto Clemente Coliseum of Puerto Rico. He went on to become the most popular merengue singer with some of his albums reaching diamond status. Toño's song "Alegría" was played at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan whenever former Detroit Tigers utility infielder Omar Infante came to bat. Toño Rosario has the best selling merengue album of all time, Quiero Volver a Empezar, which was his debut on WEA International in 1996.

Rosario is a minority owner/limited partner of the Miami Dolphins NFL team. Rosario was the first solo merengue act to ever sell out Madison Square Garden.

In 2018 his song Kulukki Thakka became an internet sensation in South Indian state of Kerala. It became very famous and was used in numerous stage shows, video albums and even in the most famous Malayalam web series Karikku's Thera Para . In Kerala it became famous as an African song and not as a Latin song because of a video that circulated in Whatsapp. Even small restaurants started getting named after the song in Kerala.

Maximo A Del Rosario married Marilyn Brenes in 1983, at marriage place, New York.

Studio albums

1980: ¡Vienen Acabando!

1983: Vol. 1

1984: Vol. 2

1985: Vol. 3

1987: Acabando!

1988: Otra Vez!

1990: Fuera de Serie

1988: Lo Mejor de los Hermanos Rosario

1989: Lo Mejor de los Hermanos Rosario Vol. 2

1993: 14 Éxitos Impressionantes

1994: Juntos Con Sus Éxitos

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