Yasser Tejeda

Yasser Tejeda is an award-winning Dominican composer, guitarist, vocalist, actor, and producer whose music explores Afro-Dominican roots through a contemporary fusion of Caribbean rhythms, jazz, rock, and global sounds. Passionate about cultural heritage, Yasser creates music that connects generations while celebrating the depth and diversity of Dominican culture. His debut album, Mesclanza, was named one of the 100 essential recordings of Dominican music by the Dominican National Association of Art Writers (Acroarte). Since then, his music has reached audiences around the world, with performances at festivals including Isle of Light (Dominican Republic), SunFest (Canada), Latinxt (Chicago), and Afro-Latino Fest (Washington, D.C.), as well as sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, Frëims in Mexico City, and the Apollo Music Café in Harlem. Yasser has been featured at the Kennedy Center Honors, the Dominican Republic’s Premios Soberano, and Broadway’s Buena Vista Social Club, where he performs as an alternate. His music has also been incorporated into curricula at UCLA, Fordham University, Rutgers, and Princeton. His screen debut alongside Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein in Netflix’s Office Romance further expands his work across music, film, and culture. As Juan Luis Guerra describes him, Yasser is a “marvelous example of what’s happening with Dominican music.”