Biography of Olga Tañón

Beautiful Olga Tañon with her seductively smoky voice is considered the queen of Puerto Rican merengue music. She was raised in Levitown Puerto Rico. As a girl, she aspired to be a dancer, and though she had a good voice and sang in church and alone in her room, she was too shy to sing in front of an audience. As a young woman, Tañon started out singing with with Las Nenas de Ringo y Josie and then Chantell, an all-girl group. In 1991, she launched her solo career. She likes to be involved in every aspect of recording her songs. Her first album was basically merengue, but she added cumbia, salsa, and ballads on subsequent releases like 1994's Siente el Amor and 1996's Exitos Y Mas. Tañon is very much a feminist and some of her songs such as "Es Mentiroso," contain messages about respecting women. Te Acordaras de Mi followed in 1998, and a year later Tañon resurfaced with Olga Viva Viva Olga. Yo Por Ti marked Tañon's first of the new millennium. ~ Sandra Brennan