Domingo Bautista interviewed by Héctor Herrera Cabral on the D’Agenda programme.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The producer and presenter of radio and television programs Domingo Bautista assured that the musical confrontation between Johnny Ventura and Wilfrido Vargas was born in the city and even divided the armed forces of the Dominican Republic.
However, in an interview with Héctor Herrera Cabral on the program D’AGENDA, which airs every Sunday on Telesistema channel 11 and TV Quisqueya for the United States, he stressed that he never had personal relationships between the two merengue stars .
“Jonny and Wilfrido’s competition starts in the city, in the neighborhoods, I would say that for the first time the forces were divided between Jonnyventurists and Wilfridistas; That’s all that’s true, the atmosphere of fanaticism was felt given what this phenomenon represented,” he explained.
Bautista clarified that as things took shape, Ventura hired William Napoleón Liriano, Choby Capellán and Guicho Pichardo, among others, to handle his PR strategy and Vargas hired José Rafael Lantigua, Chery Jiménez and himself (Domingo Bautista).
“When things needed a lot of acid, a lot of heat, Wilfrido integrated Willie Rodríguez and José Andrés Pena Manso to guide certain strategies, then a very tense situation arose, ending in a cover of the newspaper El Nacional made by Dr Rafael Molina Morillo publicly about a complaint about the placement of a bomb on a plane that would take the Bedouins to New York,” explained Bautista.
He said that this was the catalyst for this controversy that they blamed him for, although he had nothing to do with it because he had no gossip to get there.
“I get the impression that this was the work of José Andrés Pena Manso, who was then called the Johnny Abes of show business because his strategy was so energetic and aggressive,” he recalled.
It wasn’t provoked
On the other hand, Bautista assured that in more than 40 years in the entertainment industry he has never been provoked by the weaknesses that exist in the environment in which he works.
He attributed his behavior to the upbringing and education of his father, Don Arsenio Peralta, with whom he grew up and who was a very strict father.
He insisted he had never touched marijuana tobacco in his life because he had always feared the family upbringing and the values that were instilled in him.
“I lived everything, I remember once we arrived at Madison Square Garden in New York and in one of the dressing rooms the usual thing was that they put out a plate, you can imagine that you had weakness and temptation,” said Domingo Bautista in reference to how the drug was served in this activity.
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