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Olga Tañón on Four Decades of Merengue Thanks to a ‘Happy Mistake’
Olga Tañón will receive Billboard's 2025 Latin Women in Music Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual event on April 24.
Nearly four decades later, the so-called “Mujer de Fuego” (Woman of Fire) from Santurce, Puerto Rico, is being honored with Billboard ‘s 2025 Latin Women in Music Lifetime Achievement Award for her unparalleled influence as a singer in this Dominican genre. On the Tropical Airplay chart, she holds the record as the female artist with the most top 10 entries (29 in total), with hits like “Es Mentiroso,” “Cómo Olvidar,” and “El Frío de Tu Adiós,” to name a few. I really started noticing the early inklings, as I call them, at 4 years old, when I moved to Levittown in Puerto Rico and was already singing a solo at the Coliseo de Toa Baja.
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