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Rita Indiana at the Roskilde Festival 2021
With the tagline “Modernised merengue music makes all the cool kids dance,” the Roskilde Festival page announces the Dominican singer and writer as part of its 2021 line-up. The festival (which is 100% non-profit, with all profits donated to charity) takes place in Roskilde, Denmark from June 26 through July 3, 2021.
Who would have guessed that what Dominican merengue needed to become popular with cool kids and tigueres alike was a push on the genre-blender button from the skilled hands of Rita Indiana?
This merengue heroine is now on the verge of international pop stardom. Indiana has taken merengue beats that nod to gritty mambo and salsa, and mixed them with disco, new wave and Afro-derived music forms like Dominican