puerto.jpg?w=500&h=333PUERTO PLATA – Casita de Campo

Celebrating his recent 86th birthday, the Dominican Republic’s veteran sonero, Puerto Plata, returns with a glorious selection of classic love songs and lilting dance numbers composed during the brutal, repressive regime of the dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1960). ‘Casita de Campo’ follows Puerto Plata’s internationally acclaimed 2007 debut album ‘Mujer de Cabaret’. Under Trujillo, Dominican musicians were largely blocked from recording and so, like other popular singers of the time, Puerto Plata found eager audiences at the underground cabaret dance halls of Dominican Santiago’s red light districts… [order] record for 14,- EUR