Fulanito

With nearly 2 million albums sold worldwide, performances at the world's top Latin music festivals, and a recent Grammy nomination, Fulanito is one of the most popular and innovative acts ever born of the fertile uptown New York Latin hip-hop scene. The brainchild of the group's founder, lead writer and rapper Rafael Vargas, Fulanito is the first group known to combine "perico ripiao" - traditional accordion-based merengue sounds from the hills of the Dominican Republic - with modern hip-hop and rap.