Alex Bueno, the legendary Dominican merengue and bachata singer, died at 62 after a battle with cancer, leaving behind a ...

Dominican singer Alex Bueno, known for shaping merengue and bachata, died at 62 in New York due to cancer treatment ...

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For many outside the island, the sound of the Dominican Republic is instantly recognizable as the galloping rhythms of merengue, the heart-tugging sway of bachata, and the booming pulse of dembow.

Music from the Dominican Republic as played in New York City; features "merengue, folk-religious singing and drumming, working-class bachata dance music, the Dominican offshoot of the Cuban son, [and] ...

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 ...