Aconsejala - Bachata Haiti - Hector Ventura - Joan Soriano

Bachata Haiti’s Hector Ventura in Aconsejala with Joan Soriano on guitar. Hector spent his youth in the Dominican sugar cane fields. It’s a back breaking work all too familiar to many Haitian migrants. Later he moved to Villa Mella, where he sells cane juice and fruit from a street cart. He and Joan Soriano shared a house (and out-house) for many years. As Hector worked, he composed. His fast tempo, dramatic singing follows the tradition of Robin Cariño, a Haitian Dominican bachatero popular in the 1980s. It was Cariño who launched Joan Soriano’s career as a studio guitarist. Camera and edited by: Benjamin de Menil, Eli Ben-Yaacov, Samuel ’Toro’ Cruz