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Music Break

Music Break

By
Sean Jacobs

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The video for the Dominican merengue singer, Rita Indiana‘s “El Juidero,” the title track of her October 2010 release. The video for the song (a narrative about escaping to Puerto Rico), “… plays like a short film, a 1970s crime movie fantasy with heavy doses of “El Malo”-era Fania style, real-life Dominican political intrigue,” wrote New York City journalist Carolina Gonzalez (in “The Daily News” last December). It features a cameo by veteran merengue musician Johnny Ventura and was directed by Indiana’s frequent collaborator and girlfriend, Puerto Rican filmmaker Noelia Quintero.

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