section_path: Abstract
section_name: Abstract
paragraph_text: Roberto Antonio Pérez Herrera (8 March 1956 – 8 April 2025), known professionally as Rubby Pérez, was a Dominican merengue singer.
  
  Rubby performed with various orchestras until Wilfrido Vargas offered him the opportunity to become the lead vocalist of his orchestra during the recording of the album El Funcionario (1983). The album made the " Los 600 de Latinoamérica " list at 90th place. Due to his distinctive vocal qualities, he earned the nickname "the highest voice of merengue" (la voz más alta del merengue).
  
  Pérez was killed in the Jet Set nightclub roof collapse on 8 April 2025.