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Artist
Luis Dias
12+ albums
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Born in Bonao, Dominican Republic in 1953, Luis Dias is credited with being the creator of Dominican Fusion, which merged rock, jazz and blues with over 40 different ethnic rhythms from the Dominican Republic and Haiti. His parents were musicians, his mother a singer, and his father a 'tres' player. Starting in his early teens Luis joined several merengue and rock bands and later as a Psychology Major in his college years, founded 'Convite', a band responsible for bringing back from obscurity rhythms from different parts of the island of Hispaniola, as portrayed in the recordings "Ae Candelo!" and "Convite Convida". After briefly headlining another project called "Madora" in 1979, Luis moves to New York City for the first time (1980) and fronts "La Cofradia" in which Dominican folk music remains the main theme, Dias also starts teaching workshops on Traditional Dominican Music at the Museum of Natural History of New York City. Luis returns to Santo Domingo in1982 and starts up "Transporte Urbano" and this marks the birth of the authentic "rock dominicano", where the influence of the traditional rhythms meets the style and execution of the "american rock". In 1984 Luis releases his first merengue LP called "Luis 'Terror' Dias". In 1985 he was commissioned with the soundtrack for the movie "Las Pausas Del Silencio" which earned the1st. Place at the Philadelphia Film Festival for Best Music. At the same time Luis starts gaining momentum as a composer of merengues, bachatas and b