Rapper Sandy Carriello, better known as Sandy MC, from the iconic double Merenhouse Sandy and Papo, died on Wednesday, December 23, at the age of 48, probably from a heart attack.
According to the website Testigouno.com, Sandy died in her apartment in the urbanization of Juan Rafael, on Jacobo Majluta Boulevard, Santo Domingo Norte.
On social media, figures and users have complained about the departure of the singer “It’s time to dance” and the most repeated message is that “now he will meet Papo”, his musical partner who died in a car accident in 1999, which he came to define as his “brother”.
“And I think if there’s a sky, they’ll meet Papo and they’ll sing like the song said.”Wrote the user @Yosue_Ochoa.
Famous Dominican rapper Papi Sánchez told journalist José Antonio Aybar, from the Testigo Uno portal, to be very sad for the departure of one of the most influential exponents of Dominican rap.
“I am shocked by the death of Sandy, one of the most influential Dominican rappers. He was one of the initiators of the urban movement in the Dominican Republic, he played all the basics, he died physically, but his imprint, like that of Papo, remains forever. I am very sad “, said shocked the king of the Republic, as Sánchez is known.
Porfirio Pina, one of the entrepreneurs in the music industry responsible for the success of Sandy & Papo, expressed with tears and a broken voice: “You know what Sandy & Papo meant to me and to my career in the executive part. I first lost Papo on July 11, 1999, and today, on the eve of this year’s Christmas, which was not very good for many in terms of mental health, I lost the golden chub. “
He added to the aforementioned portal that Sandy had been in the music business for 25 years, four of whom were members of Sandy & Papo. “Incredibly, in those four years of walking from Canada to Patagonia, they made Latin America, the Caribbean and part of Europe dance. It is a very tragic loss. “
Pina said that if there were influencers who marked the musical history of Latin America, it is the duo Sandy & Papo. “The real duo in history will continue to be Sandy & Papo.”
Mariano lantigua, the leader of the Aljadaqui group, had a strong friendship with Sandy and said goodbye to him as follows: “Damn you fattened my honeycomb @ sandypapo # SandyMC you left ahead of time … joy in a better place … Greetings, tell him #MCPapo that they will always be in our hearts ”.
Merengueros Sergio Vargas, Fernando Villalona, Eddy Herrera, Kinito Méndez, as well as the urban Mozart la Para and Vakeró regretted their departure on social networks.
20 years after Papo
Death surprised merenhouse rapper and singer Luis Ernesto Dechamps, known as Papo and a member of the Dominican vocal duo-musician “Sandy y Papo”, at the age of 26, on Sunday, July 11, two days before begins a tour in Venezuela and Spain. .
As if the lyrics of the song “Tribute to Papo”, dedicated by Sandy after his death, had been fulfilled, 20 years later “they reunite”.
The theme reminded us that they both fulfilled their great dream of being artists and of going far at a time when urban music was in its infancy.
“Papo, I hope that one day I will see you again, sing with you and shake your hand, more than a friend, you were like a brother.
Artists, this has always been our dream, to realize it with our humility and determination … I already know the meaning of the word “friend”, you were you, everyone knows why, now I ask you, will you return? …
Papo, my friend, see you later, but never goodbye “, say a few verses on this topic.
Together again. Rest in peace Sandy “, wrote the user @giancarlo on Twitter.
Sandy and Papo were among the pioneers of Dominican urban music. Far from enjoying the honey of today’s artists’ success with millions of digital reproductions, Sandy and Papo had an impact on the markets of Central and South America and the United States, being the second to step on the “Monster” in La Quinta Vergara, the Viña del Mar Festival in Chile after Ilegales.
According to her Instagram account, Sandy was preparing to release new music in 2021, sharing images from a video recording.
“Mueve Mueve”, “It’s time to dance”, “Sexy girl”, “Candela”, are some of the hits of the legendary Creole urban duo formed in New York City.
Here are some reactions on social media.