Omega El Fuerte running things in Washington Heights last night.
The great thing about Omega fandom is that it requires no explanation. Either you haven’t heard of him (in which case, read the Omega profile I wrote for The Fader last summer) or you have, and his bad-assness is utterly self-evident. It’s simple: this former reggaeton choreographer is “El Fuerte”, one of the best musicians around in any genre right now, period, the undisputed dark king of Dominican merengue urbano / mambo. Plus he’s kinda scary – we’re not fooled just because he dropped the “y su Mambo Violento” from his name. (When you find an Omega fan, ask ’em about Rita Indiana — they’ll have an opinion on her too.)
Omega El Fuerte plays twice this weekend in NYC – as I tweeted: “all NYC’s latin ‘cosmopolatino’ websites that *didnt* mention OMEGA’s gigs here this weekend: #FAIL” ….
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When I scanned this fast, I read “Omega terroriza a Nueva York” ja ja, Freudian slip.
I have to say, the promoters were super-lame about getting the word out. But nothing an “Omega el Fuerte” google alert couldn’t fix.
I think I was one of the only people in mainstream press to write about the tour:
http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2010/09/15/2010-09-15_untitled__omega15.html