{"id":118076,"date":"2018-10-29T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=118076"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:55:16","slug":"vicente-garcia-was-inspired-by-juan-luis-guerra-now-sings-a-duo-with-guerra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/29\/vicente-garcia-was-inspired-by-juan-luis-guerra-now-sings-a-duo-with-guerra\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicente Garc\u00eda was inspired by Juan Lu\u00eds Guerra, now sings a duo with Guerra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vicente Garc\u00eda and Juan Luis Guerra – El Nuevo Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rollingstone online magazine has reviewed the new single, \u201cLoma de Cayenas\u201d by Latin Grammy-winning young performer Vicente Garc\u00eda where he sings with Juan Luis Guerra.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda said he would tour next year with the legendary Dominican singer to promote his third solo album. He explains how Guerra has been an inspiration to him all along in his career and the production of his three albums (Melodrama, A la Mar and Loma de Cayenas). Garc\u00eda was awarded three Latin Grammys in 2017, including Best New Artist.<\/p>\n

Rollingstone says that now the singer is able to interact more directly with his lodestar: Garc\u00eda\u2019s latest single, \u201cLoma De Cayenas,\u201d is a nimble merengue collaboration with Guerra himself. The publication explains that the two singers trade light-footed verses about love at first sight as a guitar tumbles and cascades and an agile brass section adds weight to the driving beat. In the song\u2019s final third, wordless backing vocals arranged by Janina Rosado swell prettily just beneath the drums.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda explains initially he was into punk rokc and other genres. But when playing with Calor Urbano, Guerra invited the group to open for him on tour. \u201cThat\u2019s when I realized that Dominican music has this power to make people dance and saw how people got really interested in our culture [through Guerra\u2019s music],\u201d Garc\u00eda told Rollingstone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went back to the Dominican Republic after that tour, realized I wanted to work with Dominican music and with our culture,\u201d he continues. \u201cI was really influenced not just in terms of music and rhythm, but in the way [Guerra] writes songs, trying to bring Dominican expressions and make people get curious about the things said in Dominican Spanish.\u201d Garc\u00eda left Calor Urbano to pursue a solo career in 2010.<\/p>\n

His first two albums were bachata and bolero explorations. But now, Garc\u00eda has set his sights on merengue. \u201cI think merengue is our best known rhythm, our music flag,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t want to do it before because I thought I wasn\u2019t ready to do it \u2014 it\u2019s a really specific way of singing. So I started to look into the origins of the merengue and see how I could get my own voice,\u201d he told Rollingstone.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

Vicente Garc\u00eda Embraces Merengue in New Single ‘Loma De Cayenas,’ Featuring Juan Luis Guerra<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n