“And something as rhythmic as Dembow – without a lot of harmony and a lot of melodies – in the Dominican Republic, in a kind of Eurocentric way, is not even considered music in a way.

Among the 221 victims was Rubby Pérez, a legendary figure in Dominican music known for his powerful voice and decades-long career. In Cypress Hills, Pérez’s music could still be heard playing ...

The 2025 edition of the Music Festival will take place on June 21 at the historic Fortaleza Museum in the Colonial City of ...

as well as a lineup of Dominican music artists and dancers. Organizers on the festival’s official Facebook page posted in January that they will “regrettably” not be able to host the ...

Inside the Nueva España restaurant near the corner of 207th Street and Broadway, a small stage was once energized with signature Dominican merengue music of horns, congas and güira, a scraping ...

Brooklyn-based Dominican composer and guitarist Yasser Tejeda has explored myriad ways to mesh Afro-Dominican roots music with sophisticated modern arrangements while maintaining its cultural ...

Fans and countrymen on Thursday shared their remembrances of Dominican Republic music icon Rubby Pérez, who was among the scores of people killed this week after the roof at the Jet Set club in ...

The musician, 69, got his break in the 1980s and continued releasing albums through 2022. By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Rubby Pérez, the singer who was performing on Tuesday when the ceiling of the ...