El Caribe newspaper highlights today what is becoming very apparent: bachata has nudged merengue aside as the most popular current genre of music in the Dominican Republic. Leading Dominican contemporary musician Luis D?as attributes the merengue?s decline in popularity to the resistance of the orchestras and bandleaders to pay good Dominican composers. ?The national music now is the bachata, no one can doubt that. The Dominican people know that it is the music that best reflects their feelings.?
Popular bachata artists include: Aventura, Antony Santos, Yoskar Sarante, Monchy Alexandra, Nueva Era, Teodoro Reyes, Zacar?as Ferreira, El Chaval, El Gringo, Ruben del R?o, Frank Reyes, and Alex Bueno, among others.
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