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“Luis Vargas Live”
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Luis
Vargas
is infamous for his scandalous double
entendres and fiery guitar riffs.
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Raulín
Rodríguez
has a jagged lonliness in his voice that is the essence of "Amargue"
(Blues) as this music was called.
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Aridia
Ventura
is known as ‘The Executioner’ because she anhilates Dominican
men in her scornful songs. A botched operation blinded her and ended
her career as the voice of women in bachata, but she was located
and performs especially for us.
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“Afrobachata”
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Joan
Soriano
is a young, relatively unknown bachatero
whose striking songs and guitar styling have a distinctively Haitian
flavor.
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Luis
Segura
is reknown for his super-emotional stage antics and
vicious steel string guitar-playing.
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Eladio
Romero Santos
was the first to play merengue on the guitar and
his rip-roaring dance music had a huge impact on the next generation
of bachateros. Eladio passed away last year, but his spirit lives
on in this documentary.
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Teodoro
Reyes
sings of betrayal and revenge
in his smokey growl and trademark porkpie hat.
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Ramón Cordero
is another luminary of the old school. His bittersweet vocals are very popular with
the drinking crowd.
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José Manuel Calderón
is considered to be the first one
to become known for the guitar stylings and bitter
songs that later would be called Amargue or Bachata.
He is still just as lively as ever.
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