Xiomara Fortuna —a singer and composer renowned worldwide as La Reina de Fusion, the Queen of Fusion—is the Dominican Republic’s foremost progressive artist of the last four decades. She is a pioneer of Afro Caribbean fusion whose compositions defy stereotypes. Her performances and recordings incorporate Afro Dominican roots music and fuses it with jazz, reggae, pop, contemporary rock, Latin, merengue, and bachata to create a sound uniquely her own. Her compositions are voyages across time, chants that echo deeply rooted memories, women’s tunes, journeys through the rhythms of the world, and poems of social consciousness and coexistence. Her voice has sung to the struggles of the Dominican people for social justice and has been a presence on stages where popular movements call for tolerance, education, environmental justice, and peace.