Billo's compositions achieve international fame, and those dedicated to Caracas, where he married several times and raised a family, made him the most beloved of composers.

[citation needed] Luis María Frómeta Pereira was born in Pimentel, Duarte Province, Dominican Republic, on November 15, 1915.

During these years, he would meet and work with some of his closest friends and associates: Freddy Coronado, Ernesto Chapuseaux and Simó Damirón, whom he already knew from school .

[citation needed] Frómeta then began studying Pre-Medicine in the Universidad de Santo Domingo and had to abandon all musical activity during this time.

[1] Frómeta arrived in Venezuela in December 1937 with his orchestra to play regularly at the Roof Garden, a dance club in Caracas.

Frómeta agreed but he was barred from ever returning to his native Dominican Republic as Trujillo considered the change to Billo's Caracas Boys an insult.