Vicente García (musician)

He is the former lead singer of the Dominican alternative rock band Calor Urbano, which he left in 2010 to pursue a solo career.

Upon beginning his solo career, García incorporated influences of traditional Dominican genres such as bachata and merengue with modern styles of reggae, funk, and hip-hop.

From a young age he began to show great interest in music, growing up in a house where the art played an important role in daily life, with a father who came from a family of musicians.

[4] After touring with Calor Urbano, he returned to the Dominican Republic in 2010 and announced he was leaving the group to pursue a solo career.

[4] On August 9, 2010, García signed in Hollywood, California, with the label Capitol Latin, with whom he launched his first solo album titled Melodrama.

The collaboration inspired García to deviate from mainstream bachata and incorporate a variety of genres into the album: the artist recalled, "I [didn't] want to be that guy that just does Caribbean music".

[8] The lyrical content on Trending Topics was inspired by the complex relationship between humans and technology and features collaborations with Vetusta Morla, iLe, Ana Tijoux, Nidia Góngora.

[8] His 2019 release Candela was heavily influenced by merengue, a genre García called "the most important rhythm of the Dominican Republic".