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Joan Soriano plays bachata music. It is a style similar to southern blues or Portuguese fado music, but it comes from the Dominican Republic. Soriano wants to play this style to a world wide audience and have it earn the respect it deserves among certain classes in the Dominican Republic. Anchor Lisa Mullins has more.

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