The loudest voice of our Merengue, an icon of Dominican music, has left us... Fly high, my friend! Rest in peace, dear Rubby! My heart goes out to your family and also to the families of all those ...

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 ...

CONTRERAS: Merengue has a powerful connection to Dominican identity. During the U.S. occupation of the island in the early 20th century, Dominican insurgents used the music as a symbol of cultural ...

Rubby Pérez, the merengue singer who rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the Wilfrido Vargas Orchestra, has died following a tragic accident at the Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic ...

I’ve loved the Dominican Republic since I was very young ... So how did you end up making merengue music? I was looking for opportunities in music. I was a “rockerita” in Spanish because ...

Los Rabanes earned a Latin Grammy Award in 2007, toured worldwide and received international acclaim since their start in ...

Among those gathered was Mike Batista, a Dominican merengue singer who splits his ... their early careers and stayed connected through the music they loved. "We were friends," Batista shared.