Manuel Tejada was born in the city of Santo Domingo, the 26 of November of 1957. He took his first music classes from professor Caridad Cabral in the Elementary School of Music; after finishing this period, he entered the National Conservatory, where he attended the matters of Harmony, Composition, Pedagogía, Orquestración and Piano.
Like composer of pop music, Tejada wrote his first pieces in 1978 and he got be to known with his song "Juventud". Manuel Tejada is an experienced musicalizador of advertising campaigns, in addition to an excellent orquestador, that have worked at international level with figures of the spectacle, like Sophi, Awilda and many others, as well as with the most popular Dominican singers; among them, Omar Franco, Olga Lara, Jacqueline Estévez, Taty Salas, Vickiana, Niní Cáffaro, Anthony Ríos and several musical groups.
Tejada is a cultor of the fusion of the Caribbean rhythms and in his songs he combines sorts and own styles of our islands, which allows him to create new elements, Tejada reached the First Prize of XXVII the International Festival of the Song of Vinña del Mar, in Chile, in 1986, with his song Para quererte, with lyrics from José Antonio Rodríguez and wich was interpreted in that occasion by Maridalia Hernández.


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"