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Latino USA

How I Made It: Yasser Tejeda & Palotré

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Society & Culture, News, Documentary

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The musical genres most people associate with the Dominican Republic are merengue and bachata.

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0:00.0

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0:22.6

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0:27.1

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0:34.1

Hey there Latino USA listener, here's a show from our vault.

0:44.1

The festival design agua is like the whew stock of palo music.

0:54.3

And I was in San Cristóbal and people from all the regions of the Dominican Republic

0:59.5

goes there to perform with their palo group.

1:09.9

When I saw the first time in the dancing and everything together, I was like super impressed,

1:17.2

like, oh my god, how I don't know about this.

1:20.0

So that's why I started experimenting with the Dominican roots music.

1:25.0

And that's why I say this is kind of the real Dominican music.

1:32.0

From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.

1:35.4

I'm Maria Inujosa.

1:37.0

Today, one of our how I made it segment with Dominican Fusion band, Yacer Tejeda and Palo

1:43.7

3.

1:49.6

From the globe, people often think of Dominican music as being either miding it or bachata.

1:58.8

But there's another side of Dominican music that doesn't get as much air time.

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