Dorian Ampie is a Costa Rican singer and songwriter working in his country's urban music scene, where he records and writes under his own name, Dorian Ampié Suárez.
His sound sits between Spanish-language rap and Caribbean dancehall: heavy, mid-tempo beats with plain, direct verses over the top. The subject is usually life in the barrio told from the inside, and the themes he keeps returning to are work, family, faith, and the experience of being underestimated.
He has built his following steadily online, where his videos reach well beyond Costa Rica, and at home he is often described as one of the country's emerging national artists.