Traveling a Long Way: Joan Soriano and "Vengo de Lejos"

Today's random tune comes from the Caribbean and is performed by Joan Soriano, a Dominican bachata singer and guitarist who blends modern and traditional bachata styles. The seventh of fifteen children, he began his music career with a self-made guitar fashioned from a tin can and some fishing line. After mastering his style of bachata playing, he began working as a session musician in Santo Domingo. His album El Duque de la Bachata won the Indie Acoustic Project's Best Worldbeat Album of 2011. This song, Vengo de Lejos, can be found on his 2012 album La Familia Soriano.

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