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Reggaetón Stars Who’ve Experimented with Merengue
From Bad Bunny to Fariana, and more, here's a list of reggaetón artists who have experimented with the merengue genre.
Bad Bunny opened the 2023 Grammy Awards with “Después” alongside a live band, with an amused Taylor Swift seen shimmying her shoulders and swaying her hips in the audience. After dipping her toes in the dembow genre, Fariana continues to tap Dominican culture — this time recruiting merengue icons Oro Solido for “El Caballito.” The catchy merengue (produced by Gangsta and Oro Solido’s frontman Raul Acosta) with witty lyrics best captures the Colombian rapper’s effortless and saucy rhymes, aided here by the Dominican group’s signature mambo sound, which has had generations after generations dancing “hasta las 15 de la mañana” (until 3 in the morning). Maluma’s own tropical “Coco Loco” fuses a sensual merengue rhythm with synth electronic beats and a hook borrowed from Daft Punk’s “Veridis Quo.” The fun song narrates the story of a man who’s crazy over a girl and can’t hold back his feelings anymore.
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