Alofoke Music

Esmelin Santiago Matías García (born December 8, 1981), known as Santiago Matías or Alofoke is a Dominican radio host and producer, record producer, celebrity interviewer and business man.


Santiago Matías was born on December 8, 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]


AlofokeMusic media group Edit
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 broatcast 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