El Alfa has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 31 December 2015. El Alfa's music has been featured on 22 episodes.

Emmanuel Herrera Batista, known professionally as El Alfa, is a Dominican dembow recording artist, In 2015, after receiving criticism for insulting the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic in a music video, El Alfa was sentenced to 15 days of community service. The President of El Instituto Duartino, Cesar Romero called for the boycott and destruction of El Alfa's albums for having disrespected the founding fathers. Part of El Alfa's sentencing was to clean the Plaza de la Bandera and to…