El mambero OMEGA "EL FUERTE" realizó su primera entrevista con el reconocido periodico neoyorquino DAILY NEWS en el Hudson Hotel de Nueva York y fue publicada hoy miercoles 15 de septiembre de 2010.
Esta es la entrevista que fue publicada en la edicion de hoy del Daily News:
Merengue superstar Omega arrived in New York last week in a jet plane, not strapped to a jet pack. But he did pack one in his luggage.
The flashy - and expensive - prop was the highlight of the Dominican music star's presentation at the Festival Presidente in Santo Domingo last month, and a feature he promises will be part of some of his upcoming concerts in the U.S.
"I love putting on a show people will talk about," he says.
Dominican blogs and sites have been buzzing since Omega's people announced this month he had been granted a visa to perform in the U.S. for the first time in four years. He had trouble obtaining one due to what his handlers described only as a DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) matter.
Omega is a trailblazer in a fast-and-aggressive variant of merengue derisively called "merengue de calle" (street merengue), but he prefers to call it "merengue urbano," or simply "música urbana" (urban music). His band's name, Mambo Violento, has become a synonym for the type of music he plays.
The singer, tagged as "El Fuerte" ("the Strongman"), aligns his work more with hip hop, current R&B and pop.
"I find the name 'merengue de la calle' offensive, because a kid 'de la calle' [from the street] has no home," he says. "Calling it urban music means it follows the tendencies of youth music, like hip hop."
Omega, 30, became a top-grossing act in the Dominican Republic because his music combined merengue and many young Dominicans' love of hard-edged hip hop. His gravelly, drawling voice may remind listeners of reggaetón's Tego Calderón or of hip hop's DMX.
His lyrics sometimes deal with the violent street life increasingly common in the Dominican Republic, but are more often love songs ("Si No Amas" or "Shorty") or the typical rapper's boast of his flow ("Chamboneando").
Visually, at least, he cultivates a street-tough image. He showed up for an interview at the Hudson Hotel in midtown sheathed in a bright yellow jacket that covered most of the tattoos on his arms (but not the one between his eyes) and flashing bling â%88%92 a golden watch with a 3-inch face, rhinestone earrings in both ears and chunky rings on both hands.
Adding to his bad-boy image is the three-month jail term he served in the notorious Najayo prison in the Dominican Republic after a high-profile trial, where he was found guilty of beating his ex-wife. But even there, he worked on his music and released a video of a new song performed a cappella in his cell.
Omega, born Antonio Peter de la Rosa, is always ready to work, it seems.
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