Experts or promoters of bachata from 31 countries on 4 continents met in a virtual meeting called “A zoom for love of our Country Brand, Bachata”, about celebrating the day of love.
Dancers, instructors, school principals, DJs and world event organizers participated in the activity.
The virtual meeting was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Culture, Fernando Antonio Cruz (Bonny Cepeda), together with Víctor Minaya, the general producer of Bachata DNA, a virtual meeting with
Cepeda thanked all participants on behalf of President Luis Abinader and the Minister of Culture, Carmen Heredia for embracing our musical culture, bachata.
“You are the cultural ambassadors of our country and the best allies to invite the world to know our beautiful country, in your presentations, in your courses, in the animations and bachata events that you carry out all over the world,” he commented.
Víctor Minaya, during his welcome remarks, expressed “that the goal of this Zoom is to find all of us who love bachata and to tell him that in the Dominican Republic, the country where the romantic genre was born, they will have allies to strengthen this rhythm as their country brand and that we can continue to grow and bring bachata events to every corner of the world with the Dominican stamp. Without you, the history of bachata cannot be written. “
The meeting was attended by the Ambassador of the Republic to Korea, Dr. Federico Cuello Camilo, who praised the initiative and highlighted the participation of Korean bachata dancers and their interest in making them recognize that bachata is a Dominican rhythm and uses it as a tool to promote tour of tools.
Top dancers, DJs, singers and organizers of bachata events in China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Ukraine, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria, Australia, Turkey, Kingdom The United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, India, Canada, Colombia, Jamaica, Kenya, Poland, together with the host country Dominican Republic, were present at the discussion.
The first virtual meeting led by Rudi López (el tiguere del mambo) from the United States, Noura and Willy from Rome, were joined as guests by singers Cheo Zorrilla, Daniel Santa Cruz and actor Anthony Álvarez.
The digital assembly presented a refined list of the best dancers in the world, event organizers and DJs among them:
-Attack and La Alemana, Alessandro Laceni, organizer of the first bachata festival in Italy.
-Néstor Manuelian, organizer of the first world bachata festival in Australia
-Dima Lohmatov, organizer of the event in Israel
-Marcelo and Belén, champion dancers
-DJ Manuel Citro, DJ, European producer
-James Sedano, of the Radio Bachata Sensual
-Dani J, singer from Spain
-Yassin Mutati, of Nairobi Africa
-Carlos Espinosa, the greatest exponent of the fusion style, in Mexico
-Alex and Desiré, Dominican bachata
-José and Elena, bachata fusion and organizers of one of the largest European congresses Europe Bachata Masters, Milan, Italy
-Gaby and Estefy, Dominican bachata dancers (Spain) live in Spain
-DANI J, the most famous Spanish singer in the world with over 120,000,000 views on YouTube and over 350,000. on Spotify
-DJ Manuel Citro, Italy
-DJ York -Jorge Elisondo, the creator of the first congress in the USA and China and the creator of the first competition more than 20 years ago.