Here is some info i found when i had to do a report on latin music. Let me know what you guys think.
We will probably never know with certainty the true origin of this music, but theories about it express deep-rooted feelings about Dominican identity. One theory links merengue to the Haitian mereng.
http://home-3.tiscali.nl/~pjetax/historias/history_merengue.html
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