Milagros del Rosario Quezada Borbón was born on the 21 of may in the year 1952 in Santo Domingo. In 1965 she emigrated with her family to the United States and there she discovered her vocation to become a singer. There she joined the churchchoir in the church nearby she lived and in 1975, together with her brothers and sister, she formed her first musical group: Milly, Jocelyn y Los Vecinos (and the neighbours). In 1976 they recorded there first single, thereby initiating allmost 20 years of hits, in that time bringing merengue all over the world and recording 24 albums. In 1996 Los Vecinos ceased to exist as a group and Milly was out of the limelights for allmost two years. And in that way completing a fertile part of her live as the Queen of Merengue, and all that time she was adored by the public national and internacional. By her numerous appearances and hundreds of thousands of sold records distributed all over the world by recordcompanies as Algar Records, Baron Records, CBS International, VO Records, Tropic Sun and Sony Music Tropical, Milly stayed at the top of the Latin music scene.
In 1998 Milly was rewarded with "Soberano de los premios Casandra" and she gathered other honours such as Best Singer, Best Appearance and Best production. In the same year she appeared in Providence, United States, in a concert attended by more than 25,000 people, and for that she received the keys of the city.
In august of 1998, in the Ball Room of the Hotel Caribe Hilton, in Puerto Rico, Milly presented her album Milly.. vive, and in october that took her, with a new show, to the Sala Principal del Teatro Nacional and the Gran Teatro del Cibao. In november of the same year, together with Elvis Crespo, she appeared in the Hipódromo de Hialeah, in Miami.
In 1999 she was rewarded with the premio Casandra in the category of Best Show, for her production of Milly.. vive, presented in the Teatro Nacional de Santo Domingo. In march she acted as most important personality in a tribute to merengue which was organized by the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington. In april she was invited by the president of the Dominican Republic, Dr Leonel Fernández, to perform in a concert as a welcome for the heads of state whom assembled in Santo Domingo to participate in "la Cumbre de Jefes de Estado del Caribe".
Also in april 1999, Billboard awarded her in the category Femenin Tropical Album for Milly.. vive, and in may she was nominated in three categorys in "Our prizes", in the city of Miami.
The comeback of Milly Quezada in the limelights, in her new aspect as a solist, is prized with infinite applauses and a large list of recognitions by the most important magazines and institutes dedecaded to promote popular music. Her work has been an important impulse to merengue as a musicstyle, and she achieved that people all over the world identify the tipical music and dance of the Dominican Republic as representative for the Carribean.

This text is taken from "Los cien músicos del siglo" and translated, published in 2000 by "Cañabrava", in Santo Domingo and written by "el Lic. Antonio Gómez Sotolongo"

1. Y ya pa'que
2. Se fue
3. Tu y las olas
4. Gaviota
5. En tus manos
6. Fiebre juvenil
7. Entre tu cuerpo y el mio
8. Mal amor

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1. Pena
2. Pideme
(dúo con Fernando Villalona)
3. Que se mueran de envidia
4. Mesita de Noche
5. Dos rosas
6. Antologia de Caricias
7. Un nuevo amor
8. Burbujas de amor
9. Pideme
10. Un nuevo amor (merengue)

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1. Me duele el alma (Merengue)
2. Tanto que dije
3. Si fuera por mi
4. Soñar despierta
5. Mi amor anda libre
6. Me quedé en el aire
7. Pienso así
8. Me duele el alma (Salsa)
9. Hay que estar loca
10. Me asusta, pero me gusta