In many ways, Geoffrey Royce Rojas is like millions of other young Latino Americans. He was raised by Dominican parents who came to New York looking for the American dream and struggled to keep their ...

A superb new collection of vintage bachata singles is titled Bachata Roja: Amor y Amargue, and indeed the music itself was originally called amargue — which means "bitterness" — for its slow-moving ...

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"I had to try to sing them exactly as they were written because they’re impeccable," Sting, who sings completely in Spanish, ...

THINK DOMINICAN music, and merengue invariably comes to mind. And if you happen to know a little about the rich musical history of the Dominican Republic, maaybee you’re familiar with bachata music, ...

Aventura — the novelty musical act, not the city in Miami-Dade — has turned traditional Dominican folk music, AKA bachata, into a worldwide sensation by doing what Carlos Vives did in Colombia.

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Wilfredo José Burgos Matos is an Adjunct Assistant ...

It used to be that recording artists had to be known for a specific genre to get signed to a label. But in recent years, more and more music artists have been experimenting with different genres — ...

Santo Domingo, 23 abr (EFE).Santo Domingo, 23 abr (EFE). — El ministro dominicano de Cultura, José Antonio Rodríguez, dijo hoy que la decisión del Congreso Nacional de aprobar una ley que declara la ...

Jacki Lyden reads from listeners' letters. Topics include a correction on the origin of bachata music — it's from the Dominican Republic — and one listener's suggestion for the derivation of the term ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Lehman College, CUNY (THE CONVERSATION) What began as ...