Víctor Víctor
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Víctor Víctor, born Víctor José Víctor Rojas, was a Dominican singer-songwriter and guitarist of popular music. He was born on December 11, 1948 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago Province, in the Los Pepines neighborhood.
Víctor was the son of José Víctor and Avelina Rojas. In the early 1970s, as a percussionist and guitarist, he began working with the Wilfrido Vargas orchestra and, in 1972, he recorded the song El Camino de los Amantes.
A short time later, that same song projected him internationally as a composer when it was performed by Felipe Pirela. Composer of high human sensitivity, his songs have always shown a commitment to popular feeling. He was the founder, along with Sonia Silvestre, of the Nueva Forma group in the 1970s. This group, framed in what was called the protest song, participated in the Seven Days with the People Festival in 1974.
He was also one of the first Dominican artists to travel to Cuba, when this type of travel was prohibited by the Dominican government. In 2007, he recorded an album with songs of social content entitled Verde y Negro, as a tribute to the freedom fighters of the Dominican people. Author of a large number of songs, his lyrics and melodies have been sung by many interpreters of popular song in Latin America and Spain, such as Dyango, Milly Quezada, Celia Cruz and Azúcar Moreno, among others.
In 1990, his production Inspiraciones, especially his theme Mesita de Noche, contributed to projecting bachata internationally, ceasing to be a marginal genre of Dominican music to become, in the future, a national and international mass phenomenon. In his 2006 production Bachata Entre Amigos, an album produced by guitarist Juan Francisco Ordóñez, he performed classic hits by singer-songwriters such as Serrat, Sabina, Silvio Rodríguez and Fito Páez, among others, as a duo and in bachata. Many of those authors interpreted his songs for the first time in that rhythm.
He died in the city of Santo Domingo at the Plaza de la Salud General Hospital on July 16, 2020, due to COVID-19.