Las Chicas Del Can

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Las Chicas del Can
Origin	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Genre(s)	Merengue
Years active	1982–present
Members
Miriam Cruz Eunice Betances Luchy Betances Theresa Dominguez
Former members
Belkis Concepcion Veronica Medina Adalgisa Baez Mitchell Flores FlorAngel Del Villar MAggie Cruz

Las Chicas Del Can is a famous and extremely successful all-female merengue group from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Originally created by Wilfrido Vargas, several teams of female vocalists and musicians have alternately performed under the name Las Chicas del Can throughout the group's history.

Originally founded in 1982, Las Chicas del Can performed hit after hit throughout the eighties, and a great number of their singles and albums achieved gold or platinum status. Hits such as El Negro No Puede, Sukaina, Culeca, Ta'Pillao, Fuego, Te Lo Doy, and Las Pequeñas Cosas are now considered "classics" of merengue music.

Lead singer Belkis Concepcion left the group early in its history to go solo in 1985. Singers Miriam Cruz (the uncrowned queen of the Merengue) and Eunice Betances then teamed up and got vocal support from, among others, Luchy Betances (younger sister of Eunice) and Veronica Medina. Medina herself then went solo later that year.

In 1993, the group reinvented itself under the name Miriam Cruz y Las Chicas. The first year under that name, they produced a successful album entitled Nueva Vida featuring a Juan Luis Guerra hit, which was written at Propongo. Later that year, Loba was also well received by merengue fans and quickly became another hit. A European tour soon followed. 1994 saw another hit with the song Con Agua the Sal, and 1995 brought another successful European tour.

Meanwhile, the original namesake was kept alive by a music industry manager who discovered a group of new and talented young ladies who would carry the torch for Las Chicas del Can and leave their own indelible mark on merengue music. In 1993, Michell Flores, Adalgisa Baez and Florangel del Villar teamed up to keep the legacy alive. This stage was incredible, the new girls were hailed as the "Monumental", travelling around the world, taking up issues of the former as "Juana la Cubana" and introducing his protagonist as a young Costa Rican trumpeter Ana Retana, Item icon that band whatsoever at any stage,it is noteworthy that Michell Flores is a native of Guatemala, was a young country which promise fulfils becoming a figure at the international level They made a furor with the hit tunes Voy Pa'Lla, Hacer ell Amor Con Otro, Celoso, Explosivo and Sin Compromiso. After the albums Botando Chispas (1994) and Derramando Suenos (1996) were made, Michell Flores went solo, and the second formation of Las Chicas del Can broke up in 1998.

Las Chicas del Can was eventually reformed a third time, but it was never able to achieve the success of earlier formations. To date, the first formation of Las Chicas Del Can (with front ladies Miriam Cruz, Eunice Betances and Theresa Dominguez) has proven the most successful of all.

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