Merengue continues to be a draw for a group of artists who are not native to the musical genre. This year a breath of life revives the Dominican rhythm with interesting offers to which they have put their voices and styles with singers like Latón Pé, Pavel Núñez, Techy Fatule, Daniel Santacruz, Manuel Turizo and Frank Ceara, among others.
The reality is that this does not mean a revolution or a shock for the merengue, however, It is still an injection for the genre that seeks to remain alive in the new music consumers.
It really is very important for the genre that a potential Latin music player like Letón Pé sings to his audience in merenguito like “Tengo miedo”, a song that was born in a musical laboratory with experts like the Dominican Calacote, the Puerto Rican Eduardo Cabra and the Mexican Tonga Conga.
“Exploring autochthonous rhythms has been a constant aspiration, as long as he did it from a frank perspective and with the fluidity that intersects with what he was already doing. The strength of Calacote’s atypical and bizarre performance, the ingenuity of Eduardo Cabra in the production together with Tonga Conga and we find the ideal archetype to consolidate this galactic mambo,” says Letón Pé
“I’m afraid” is defined by the artist as a song “that shakes and shakes in all its angles, from what he narrates about a woman who praises her for her impropriety, but who has not the slightest intention of diminishing herself, to giving her an incisive seal within the arrangement. It is a song made for my loud people, effervescence for those who need it and inspired by my Caribbean people, that wherever we go we stir up the atmosphere”, explains Letón Pé about the inspiration behind the single.
TECHY FATULE
Techy teamed up with Alex Mansillas to present his new single “Que me quedes tú”, a romantic merengue with which he seeks to innovate and not get pigeonholed.
Techy, who was born in the 80s, when rhythm was in its heyday, carries in its DNA the percussion of the tambora and the ringing of the güira, and that is what he seeks to express in this new theme.
“I was born in the 80s, in my memory and heart there are always those lyrics of the meringues of that time, which fill the audience with joy, emotions,” he said.