Pena Suazo has played the trumpet, composed and arranged in many Dominican merengue music groups like Cuco Valoy's orchestra and La Artillería.

[1] José Peña Suazo was born on January 18, 1967, in Cotuí, capital of Sánchez Ramírez Province in the Cibao, Dominican Republic.

At the age of seventeen Peña Suazo started taking Tuba lessons with the Dominican music teacher Juan Eutimo Jerez.

For some time, he played in the Santo Domingo Fire Department's music band and then joined Cuco Valoy's orchestra, where he was first trumpet and composed and arranged some of the group songs.

[4] In 1994, Suazo formed the International Merengue music band La Banda Gorda, in which he is the lead singer, arranger and composer.