DOMINICAN MUSIC AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Brother Tito Deler is a bilingual music scholar and collector of historical recordings from the 1930s-1990s, with family roots in the Dominican Republic and Cuba. He has led speaking and listening engagements with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and holds a monthly residency on the acclaimed The Lot Radio where he shares rare vinyl recordings from his archive, reimagining the golden era of Radio Guarachita through the lens of the African diaspora for a whole new generation. Bodega Blues.
As archivist, Tito is in the process of publishing el Archivo de la Bachata Dominicana: A informational discography of Artists, Recordings, Record Labels and Authors from the Dominican Republic 1962-1992.