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Dominicans in musical solidarity with Haiti (Press Release)

Thirty international artists and Dominican footballers and famous (including Shakira, Enrique Iglesias and Johnny Ventura) have made their participation in a fundraising concert last night Sunday before thousands of spectators in Santo Domingo. The event, entitled "A canto de esperanza por Haití" (A song of hope for Haiti), made the front pages of major newspapers Dominicans.

According to the newspaper Hoy , tens of thousands of people, mostly youths, were in the stadium Felix Sanchez of the Centro Olímpico to hear and see local artists change and international stage.

"Because we're going to build there a good hospital" exclaimed to the crowd Juan Luis Guerra, the main organizer of the concert, while specifying that the funds collected for the evening will go to Oxfam Intermonde in building a new hospital dedicated to children in Haiti.

Also the song "Ay Haiti," which appears in the footballers Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Diego Forlan and 'Kun' Agüero (Atletico Madrid), Kaka and Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) is also part This humanitarian initiative. The album also available on iTunes, will include three remixes recorded for the occasion.

The producer Carlos Jean, originally from Haiti, reportedly said during a press conference that "the artists who contributed to the album, shops and the record company that will distribute the phone companies that allowed donations by SMS agreed to cooperate voluntarily, "according to an article published in the newspaper El Caribe .