Music holds a very important place in the Dominican Republic. Here some songs in the most important styles.

Click the following pictures to hear the songs, e.g. with realplayer. If you don't have realplayer, click HERE to download.

Contemporary Merengue: El baile del suá suá, Kinito Méndez		Traditional Merengue (called Típico as well, or Perico Ripia'o): Caña Brava, Ñico Lora
Bachata: Durmiendo solo, Antony Santos		Pambiche: Dominicanita, Rafael Solano
Ballad: Se me olvidó otra vez, Rhina Ramírez		Jazz: Manteca, Michael Camilo (824 kb!)
Dominican Rock: Dios salve al viajero, Toque Profundo		Here a videoclip (00:4:18, wmv) of Los Hermanos Rosario, a popular merengue-band and my favourite, with the song "Morena Ven"(19,6 mb!).

The videoclip you can see e.g. with windows media player. If you don't have it, click HERE to download.

The next two songs you can hear e.g. with winamp. If you don't have winamp, click HERE to download.

Salsa: Que se sepa, Tabaco y Ron (277 kb!).

Taíno-music (the original indian people): Orocobix (147 kb!)

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