La Perversa, born Denisse Michelle Tejeda on 13 November 2001 in Villa Duarte, Santo Domingo, is a Dominican dembow singer and dancer who emerged from viral social-media choreography to become one of the genre's leading young female voices, with international collaborations including 6ix9ine's «La Baby» (2024).

Villa Duarte and alibabá

Tejeda grew up in Villa Duarte, the same working-class Santo Domingo sector where her grandfather, the composer and singer Eloy Tejeda, known as Manyulo, had lived; Manyulo, a figure of the mid-century son and merengue combo scene, wrote songs including «El Tren de la Navidad» and died in 2011. As a girl she danced rather than sang, coming up in neighborhood alibabá crews, the fast carnival-rooted dance style, before a viral 2019 video of her choreography turned her into an online phenomenon and pulled her toward recording.

«Aficia De Un Chuky» and a female wave in dembow

Her breakthrough came through «Chuky», a run of collaborations for the producer Secreto “El Famoso Biberón”: the 2020 remix «Chuky», with Nino Freestyle and La Insuperable, and the single «Aficia De Un Chuky», with Nino Freestyle, both became dembow standards, followed by «Aficia De Un Chuky 3» in 2021. The run arrived as dembow's biggest new names were disproportionately women, Yailin La Más Viral and La Baby among them, and La Perversa is counted among the artists who pushed a historically male genre open for them.

Film and international collaborations

Beyond music, La Perversa has moved into film and television, including the 2025 comedy «Carlota La Más Barrial», in which she played Chula, and «Medias Hermanas» (2025). In 2024 the American rapper 6ix9ine featured her on his single «La Baby», carrying her voice to an audience well beyond dembow's usual reach.

Legacy

Still in her twenties, La Perversa has already moved between the roles the genre demands of its stars, dancer, singer, media personality, actress, and her rise from an alibabá crew in Villa Duarte to an international feature is held up, alongside her peers, as proof that dembow's newest generation of stars would be women.