{"id":496596,"date":"2026-01-03T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/today-marks-16-years-since-the-passing-of-luisito-marti\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:09:49","slug":"today-marks-16-years-since-the-passing-of-luisito-marti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/today-marks-16-years-since-the-passing-of-luisito-marti\/","title":{"rendered":"Today marks 16 years since the passing of Luisito Mart\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo. <\/strong>- Luis Bernardo Mart\u00ed Hern\u00e1ndez, best known as Luisito Mart\u00ed<\/a>, died on a day like today, January 3, 2010, at the age of 64, leaving a mark on music, television, Dominican cinema and the Dominican art industry in general.\n\nBorn on February 1, 1945, in Villa Duarte, Santo Domingo Este, Luisito Mart\u00ed was much more than a comedian: he was a musician, actor, producer, presenter, and creator of characters that today are part of the collective memory of the country.\n\n\n

You can also read<\/strong>: Drake is accused of using betting platform to inflate his streams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nHis artistic career began in music, as a conga player for Johnny Ventura's Combo Show, where he later also shone as a vocalist, performing merengues that became popular hits such as \"La muerte de Mart\u00edn\", \"Qu\u00e9 pasa Papo\", \"Te digo ahorita\", and \"Mam\u00e1 es la que sabe\".\n\nSubsequently, he founded his own orchestra, \"El Sonido Original\", achieving recognition with songs like \"Gato entre Macuto\", \"Jaleo de Acorde\u00f3n\" and \"El mudo\".\n\nBut it was in humor that Luisito Mart\u00ed achieved eternity.\n\nIn 1983, he joined the comedy cast of El Show del Mediod\u00eda, where he quickly became a comedy director and creator of a gallery of unforgettable characters.\nAmong them, Balbuena, the most beloved of all: a humble Dominican dreamer with the illusion of traveling to New York in search of the so-called American dream.\n\nBalbuena not only made people laugh; he represented the common Dominican, their aspirations, frustrations, and hopes. A character so real that he ended up transcending television.\n\nIn 1995, Luisito Mart\u00ed took Balbuena to the cinema with the film \"Nueba Yol: \u00a1Por fin lleg\u00f3 Balbuena!\", becoming a box office phenomenon and a milestone in Dominican cinema.\nThe story continued in 1997 with \"Nueba Yol 3: Bajo la nueva ley\", consolidating Balbuena as one of the most emblematic characters in the national audiovisual.\n\nThroughout his career, Luisito Mart\u00ed produced and starred in successful television shows such as \u201cEl Show de Luisito y Anthony\u201d, \u201cDe Remate\u201d, \u201cLas mil caras del enga\u00f1o\u201d and \u201cEl Show de Luisito Mart\u00ed\u201d, as well as serving as presenter of the Casandra Awards in 2007, along with Jatnna Tav\u00e1rez and even receiving the Gran Soberano, the award's highest honor, in 1996.\n\n\n

On a personal level, Mart\u00ed married Milagros Rivera in 1966, who passed away a year after his death in 2011. He had 5 children with her: Luis\u00edn, Kaki, Omar, Robert Luis, and Steven Mel.<\/p>\n\n\nAfter facing serious health problems, Luisito Mart\u00ed passed away on January 3, 2010, leaving a collective sorrow in Dominican society, which was shaken by the news of his death.\n\nToday, 16 years later, Luisito Mart\u00ed lives on in every rerun of Nueba Yol, in every memory of Balbuena, and in the hearts of millions of Dominicans who grew up laughing at his clean, intelligent, and deeply relatable humor.\n\nLuisito's talent, discipline, and creativity made him one of the most admired and respected artists in the Dominican Republic.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. – Luis Bernardo Mart\u00ed Hern\u00e1ndez, best known as Luisito Mart\u00ed, died on a day like today, January 3, 2010, at the age of 64, leaving a mark on music, television, Dominican cinema and the Dominican art industry in general. Born on February 1, 1945, in Villa Duarte, Santo Domingo Este, Luisito Mart\u00ed was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-496596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}