Xiomara Fortuna
Xiomara Fortuna is a woman, a voice, a music synthesis. Her music engages and retains the essence of what must remain in the song of our people. Xiomara Fortuna has the gift of music to the essential, authentically and happily merges it with Jazz, Reggae, Rock, Meringue, Samba. Xiomara Fortuna, a voice with converging essences. She cherishes the roots of popular Dominican, Caribbean, Afro Caribbean music, with the wisdom of those who made the trip in both directions. Her work is the result of research and usability.

Irka Mateo
Irka is author, composer and performer. She began her training with Brazilian music and then switched to the folklore of her native Dominican Republic. Today, it is her original compositions for two groups: "Irka con Bohuti" and her work which focus on the fusion of different Dominican rhythms and "Irka Luna y el Trio" which evokes more music from Brazil and the Caribbean. Irka also works in ethnomusicology, where she just completed 10 years of research and audio compilation of traditional music in the South of her country. Irka is also a member of the International Movement for the Recovery of Taino Culture and Identity. We welcome this extraordinary artist as a singer and co-presenter of the show Gala of Friendship.

Emeline Michel
From anguish to despair, rage, violence, tenderness to passion, passion into madness... Her voice goes through all the nuances and her body through all the thrills. When she sings, it is life bursting with all its colors. She has long been comfortably ensconced in our hearts and in our lives. She is our Creole Diva who carries with her on the international stages all vibrations of our Island...

Virtuoso dancer, sumptuous choreographer… A name that strikes and is described to be fascinating. He evolves into a world where the art of dance is breath of life, its meaning and purpose, before anything else. He belongs to this generation of terrible children of Haiti who have the strength to resist.

Jean-René is real and never simulates. Versatile, he slips like sand between your fingers, playing skillfully on known and unknown territories.

JRD would not be JRD without his taste for beauty, tool for differences, seriousness, care for others from which emanates the meaning of life.

 

Mercedes Morales
Ballerina, Founding member of the Dominican Classical Ballet, now called National Dominican Ballet.

Víctor Ramírez
Dancer. Choreographer, Teacher and Artistic Director of “Ballet Roto” whose purpose is to express in the language of dance reality that humans live on a daily basis. He aims to reach different segments of our society in the artistic and cultural exhibits of the world and shows a special interest in presenting his reality and culture.