Santo Domingo.– Renowned Dominican singer and songwriter Xiomara Fortuna will perform an intimate concert, A Hug for Life, at Casa de Teatro 29 October at 9 pm.

Her multiple stylistic personalities have a mission: to rescue and update a variety of forgotten rhythms and neglected styles from the Dominican Republic such as saranduga banileja, carabine, petro, congo de Villa Mella, which had been virtually exterminated by the popularity of merengue and bachata.

Surrounded by some of Santo Domingo's top musicians and arrangers, the native of Monte Cristi displays her ever-flexible contralto through an entirely original repertoire, mixing the above mentioned native forms with nurturing non-Dominican influences drawn from jazz, rock, blues, reggae, soukous and trova.

Critics have properly said that the aesthetic development of Dominican music will be inexorably linked to the artistic good fortune of Xiomara Fortuna.