The trailblazing Dominican trio discuss making their darkwave-inflected new album ETERNA and celebrating small-town queerness ...

Dominican star Mala Fe headlines the fest. Also performing is Colombian La Sonora Dinamita, and salsa and tropical ensemble ...

Popular merengue singer Rubby Pérez was thrilled to be traveling to the Dominican Republic to escape the New York chill during his final performance in the city, just days before dying when the ...

The musician, 69, got his break in the 1980s and continued releasing albums through 2022. By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Rubby Pérez, the singer who was performing on Tuesday when the ceiling of the ...

Though major stars have been experimenting with merengue, the genre’s secret sauce remains in its Caribbean homeland.

The Dominican Republic is mourning the loss of merengue legend Rubby Pérez, who tragically passed away in the Jet Set nightclub collapse on April 8, 2025. His funeral services have drawn family ...

Merengue singer Rubby Pérez has died at 69, as one of 124 victims killed after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic.

Legendary merengue singer Rubby Perez died in a tragic roof collapse at Jet Set Night Club in Santo Domingo early Tuesday.

Friends, family, politicians and more attend a wake for merengue singer Rubby Perez on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at the Eduardo Brito National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Perez ...

Pérez was one of at least 124 people killed in the Tuesday tragedy. Rubby Pérez, the merengue singer who rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the Wilfrido Vargas Orchestra, has died following a ...

The trailblazing Dominican trio discuss making their darkwave-inflected new album 'ETERNA' and celebrating small-town queerness.