Vicente García

Vicente García Guillén (born March 30, 1983) is a Dominican musician, singer and composer. He is the former lead singer of the Dominican alternative rock band Calor Urbano, which he left in 2010 to pursue a solo career. Garcia has collaborated in concerts with renowned artists such as Juan Luis Guerra, Alejandro Sanz, Cultura Profetica, Juanes, Ximena Sariñana, LouisMichael Figueroa and Maná among others. He has won four Latin Grammy awards including Best New Artist in 2017 and was nominated for the Grammy awards in 2020.

Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, García developed an interest in various musical genres at a young age. He served as the frontman of Calor Urbano from 2002 to 2010, after which he pursued 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. His solo albums are Melodrama (2010), and A La Mar (2016), and Candela (2019). He also released an experimental collaborative album with producer Visitante of Calle 13 entitled Trending Tropics in 2018.

Early life Vicente García was born on March 30, 1983, in the city of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. He is the third son of Vicente José García Siragusa and Ani Guillén Pelegrin. 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. His earliest musical memory includes listening to bachata artist Juan Luis Guerra, with García stating, "All my really big memories from when I was a kid, going to the beach, hanging out with my parents on Sundays, all those are hooked to Juan Luis' music". As a teenager, he developed an interest in punk rock and hard rock, and was a fan of Rage Against the Machine and Deftones. He also served as the frontman for an R&B/funk group. García won three awards including Best New Artist at the 2017 Latin Grammy Awards. A La Mar was ranked by the Los Angeles Times as the best album of the decade by any Dominican artist.

2018–present: Trending Tropics side project and Candela García continued his collaboration with Visitante on the experimental 2018 album Trending Tropics, which received critical acclaim. 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. Best Contemporary Tropical Album Candela 2023 Best Folk Album Camino Al Sol 2024 Song of the Year "A Fuego Lento" Ft. Daymé Arocena