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'''Esmelin Santiago Matías García''' (born December 6, 1981), known as '''Santiago Matías''' or '''Alofoke''' is a [[List of people from the Dominican Republic|Dominican]] radio host and producer, record producer, celebrity interviewer, businessman and [[Media proprietor|media mogul]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=May 22, 2020|title=Margarita lamenta critiquen entrevista de Santiago Matías a Gonzalo; pide ser entrevistada|work=Listin Diario|url=https://listindiario.com/la-republica/2020/05/22/618722/margarita-lamenta-critiquen-entrevista-de-santiago-matias-a-gonzalo-pide-ser-entrevistada}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=July 4, 2019|title="Alofoke" meets with Danilo Medina and resumes his aspirations to deputy|work=DominicanRepNews|url=https://dominicanrepnews.com/alofoke-meets-with-danilo-medina-and-resumes-his-aspirations-to-deputy/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=May 31, 2020|title=Santiago Matías habla del Covid y música urbana|work=El Dia Newspaper|url=https://eldia.com.do/santiago-matias-habla-del-covid-y-musica-urbana/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=June 19, 2020|title=Santiago Matías "Alofoke" responde a críticas de periodistas por la entrevista a Gonzalo Castillo|work=CDN NEWS|url=https://cdn.com.do/2020/05/21/santiago-matias-alofoke-responde-a-criticas-de-periodistas-por-la-entrevista-a-gonzalo-castillo/#}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 9, 2018|title=Who is Alofoke|url=https://heabbi.com/quien-es-alofoke}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=SUZY|first=EXPOSITO|date=November 7, 2019|title=This Week in Latin Music: YouTube Policy Spurs Urbano Beef; Pop Divas Tour the U.S.|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/the-rise-of-dembow-el-alfa-lirico-en-la-casa-907678/|journal=The Rolling Stones}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=September 12, 2018|title=Dozens of Puerto Rican & Dominican Urban Artists Unite for 'Un Solo Movimiento' Album|work=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8474929/un-solo-movimiento-bad-bunny-de-la-ghetto}}</ref>
'''Esmelin Santiago Matías García''' (born December 6, 1981), known as '''Santiago Matías''' or '''Alofoke''' is a [[List of people from the Dominican Republic|Dominican]] radio host and producer, record producer, celebrity interviewer, businessman and [[Media proprietor|media mogul]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=May 22, 2020|title=Margarita lamenta critiquen entrevista de Santiago Matías a Gonzalo; pide ser entrevistada|work=Listin Diario|url=https://listindiario.com/la-republica/2020/05/22/618722/margarita-lamenta-critiquen-entrevista-de-santiago-matias-a-gonzalo-pide-ser-entrevistada}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=July 4, 2019|title="Alofoke" meets with Danilo Medina and resumes his aspirations to deputy|work=DominicanRepNews|url=https://dominicanrepnews.com/alofoke-meets-with-danilo-medina-and-resumes-his-aspirations-to-deputy/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=May 31, 2020|title=Santiago Matías habla del Covid y música urbana|work=El Dia Newspaper|url=https://eldia.com.do/santiago-matias-habla-del-covid-y-musica-urbana/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=June 19, 2020|title=Santiago Matías "Alofoke" responde a críticas de periodistas por la entrevista a Gonzalo Castillo|work=CDN NEWS|url=https://cdn.com.do/2020/05/21/santiago-matias-alofoke-responde-a-criticas-de-periodistas-por-la-entrevista-a-gonzalo-castillo/#}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 9, 2018|title=Who is Alofoke|url=https://heabbi.com/quien-es-alofoke}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=SUZY|first=EXPOSITO|date=November 7, 2019|title=This Week in Latin Music: YouTube Policy Spurs Urbano Beef; Pop Divas Tour the U.S.|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/the-rise-of-dembow-el-alfa-lirico-en-la-casa-907678/|journal=The Rolling Stones}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=September 12, 2018|title=Dozens of Puerto Rican & Dominican Urban Artists Unite for 'Un Solo Movimiento' Album|work=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8474929/un-solo-movimiento-bad-bunny-de-la-ghetto}}</ref><br />

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== Career ==
== Career ==

Revision as of 23:42, 26 December 2021

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Matías and the second or maternal family name is García.

Santiago Matías
File:Santiago Matías 2020.jpg
Born
Esmelin Santiago Matías García

(1981-12-06) December 6, 1981 (age 43)
El Capotillo, Distrito Nacional Dominican Republic
NationalityDominican
Occupation(s)host and producer, record producer, celebrity interviewer, businessman, media mogul
Years active2000-present

Esmelin Santiago Matías García (born December 6, 1981), known as Santiago Matías or Alofoke is a Dominican radio host and producer, record producer, celebrity interviewer, businessman and media mogul.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Career

Early life

Santiago Matías was born on December 6, 1981 in El Capotillo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic. He started recording rap songs from a young age in Capotillo and started his professional career in 2000, touring as the backing vocals for Vakero, a famous Dominican Rapper.[8]

Alofoke Music media group

While touring in many of the provinces of the country, Matías saw the lack of coverage of Urbano music or Latin Urban music in the Dominican media and the enthusiasm of the people wherever they performed, which motivated him in 2006 to start AlofokeMusic, a media group dedicated specifically to cover Urbano music artists in the Dominican Republic.[9]

The company started with the AlofokeMusic website, in which he began uploading exclusive content about the underground rap movement and rap battles between artists and within months of its launch the website had thousands of daily visitors, which made Matías put a stop to his rapping career and dedicate his time to interview and write about the Urban artists. In 2013, he started Alofoke Radio Show, a radio talk show that interviews Urbano music celebrities broadcast on Power 103.7 FM and then on KQ 94.5 FM.[6][10][11] The same year he started the Fuse Music record label and signed the Dominican-American rapper Mark B and positioned him internationally through collaborations with artists like Bad Bunny and Maluma.[12]

In 2021, Ozuna and Santiago Matias bought Sonido Suave, a Spanish-language Bolero and Ballad radio station serving Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was rebranded as Alofoke FM that same year and its format was changed to an urban contemporary format. It is now operated by Alofoke Music Group.[13]

Alofoke Sin Censura

Alofoke Sin Censura is a segment of the Alofoke Radio Show broadcast on KQ-94.5 FM produced and hosted by Matías, in which he asks the artists that he interviews personal questions and their opinions on social issues. He has interviewed the majority of the most recent influential Urbano music performers from Dominican Republic and Internationally such as Anuel AA, Bad Bunny, J Balvin, El Alfa, Arcángel, Natti Natasha[14] and more, as well as politicians like the Dominican vise-president Margarita Cedeño de Fernández,[15] former Dominican president Hipólito Mejía[16] and the Dominican presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo.[17][18][19]

In 2021 he denounced receiving threats from Venezuela after interviewing Dominican musician and culture Vice Minister Bonny Cepeda, where he declared that he received $60 000 to sing in a birthday party of the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, showing a WhatsApp screenshot where he received racial slurs.[20]

Personal life

Santiago's mother had him when she was only fifteen years old and his grandmother and an aunt helped her raise him. He attributes all he has become to them. Santiago started college studying Computer System Engineering and dropped out in his junior year to devote to music. However his mother made him study English and other computer courses, he later got involved in entrepreneurship.[21]

Acknowledgments

Youtuber del año - Premios Soberano 2020

References

  1. ^ "Margarita lamenta critiquen entrevista de Santiago Matías a Gonzalo; pide ser entrevistada". Listin Diario. May 22, 2020.
  2. ^ ""Alofoke" meets with Danilo Medina and resumes his aspirations to deputy". DominicanRepNews. July 4, 2019.
  3. ^ "Santiago Matías habla del Covid y música urbana". El Dia Newspaper. May 31, 2020.
  4. ^ "Santiago Matías "Alofoke" responde a críticas de periodistas por la entrevista a Gonzalo Castillo". CDN NEWS. June 19, 2020.
  5. ^ "Who is Alofoke". January 9, 2018.
  6. ^ a b SUZY, EXPOSITO (November 7, 2019). "This Week in Latin Music: YouTube Policy Spurs Urbano Beef; Pop Divas Tour the U.S." The Rolling Stones.
  7. ^ "Dozens of Puerto Rican & Dominican Urban Artists Unite for 'Un Solo Movimiento' Album". Billboard. September 12, 2018.
  8. ^ "Él es Santiago Matias aka Alofoke, el comunicador que llevó la música dominicana a otro nivel". Heabbi. May 15, 2018.
  9. ^ "Santiago Matías: "Alofoke es un complemento para que los artistas logren su pegada"". El Caribe Newspaper. March 27, 2019.
  10. ^ "103.7". Tunein.
  11. ^ "KQ 94.5 FM - Santo Domingo - Emisoras Dominicanas".
  12. ^ "Mark B Biography". Genero Ubano.
  13. ^ "Cantante Ozuna y Santiago Matías lanzan nueva emisora Alofoke FM". HOY. September 29, 2021.
  14. ^ ELIAS, LEIGHT (November 7, 2019). "Dembow Took Over the Dominican Republic. Can It Take Over the World?". The RollingStone.
  15. ^ "Margarita sobre salida de Leonel del PLD: Me afectó mucho, me caí, pero tenía que pensar en el país". El Listin Diario. June 9, 2020.
  16. ^ "Medios alternativos, en el ojo de los políticos para la conquista de nuevos electores". Diario Libre. January 31, 2019.
  17. ^ "Santiago Matías "Alofoke" responde críticas recibidas por entrevista a Gonzalo Castillo". El nuevo Diario. May 22, 2020.
  18. ^ "Alofoke se defiende: entrevistar a Gonzalo no es un crimen". Acento News. June 25, 2020.
  19. ^ "Juan TH y Santiago Matías chocan pareceres por la entrevista a Gonzalo". Listin Diario. May 21, 2020.
  20. ^ "Santiago Matías denuncia "amenazas desde Venezuela" tras entrevistar Bonny Cepeda". EFE. Diario Libre. Retrieved June 29, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ "Santiago Matías, el exitoso joven detrás de "Alofoke"". El Caribe News. June 22, 2020.
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