It is true that Puerto Ricans are more involve with the English music. But let not push it! The whole thing about changing merengue started with Dominicans djs at the clubs, especially New York. At that time it wasn't calle merenguehouse or anything like that, it didn't have an identity. All it was djs making new versions of already straight merengue's "version discoteca"! They would take regular merengue songs and speed them up a little bit electronically and add sound effects to it as well as extra base, which didn't sound too well, I used to hate those reformed merengues!
             It is true; to my knowledge the first ones that came out with rap and house en Espanol were vico c and all the rest... "voricuas" but The first time Lisa m came out with a merenhouse was together with santi con el tema "chiquitico, she was telling him he was to small to go out with her, which was true..." That song was a copy of the reggae song from el general "said something like la cadera como una botella de coca cola..." that song came out as a single son as part of a whole merengue cd from santi. It wasn't merenhouse, it was just a song from a merengue album that was included on the album as something extra and new, and Lisa M was a guest singer cause at that time she was very popular with plain house en Espanol nothing that had to do with merengue. Because that same song was so successful on her next album, Lisa m again did a single housemerengue on her own which was a song that I liked a lot. The first group to actually come out with that theme of merenhouse and dedicate a whole album to it was projecto uno, and that is why its name " first project".
             To conclude I would like to say that artist like Lisa m are just characters, most of the time "not always" they don't invent anything but they perform, what am getting at is that anything that have to do with merengue has to first go through Dominicans hands cause we are the one have th...