Chichí Peralta
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July 9, 1966
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Chichí Peralta Bio
Pedro René Peralta, popularly known as Chichí Peralta, was born on July 9, 1966 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a talented musician, an excellent percussionist, and remarkable producer skilled at fusing tropical rhythms. In his recordings, Peralta combines diverse rhythms and styles like jazz, merengue, guaguancó, and Dominican bachata and vallenato.
Peralta began his musical career at the age of 4, when he built his first instrument, a tambora. His main professional work was as percussionist of the renowned group 4-40, led by Juan Luis Guerra. For eight years, Chichí Peralta performed before an audience of thousands throughout the world. He also produced and arranged many songs and jingles of the time until he decided to start his own project called "Chichi Peralta & Son Familia".
His first solo CD, Pa’ Otro La’o, was released in 1997. On his second solo recording, De Vuelta al Barrio, Peralta was able to perfect sounds and evolve and fuse ‘son’ with jazz, merengue with guaguancó, pop music with African rhythms, bachata with Brazilian rhythms, plena with salsa, vallenato, and Arabic rhythms with African and Indian sounds.
