Sonia Margarita Silvestre Ortiz, known as Sonia Silvestre, was born on August
16, 1952, in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. She began her musical
journey in Santo Domingo and started her career as a vocalist in the early
1970s, debuting on Radio Televisión Dominicana's program "Gente" with the song
"Yo sin ti". Her breakthrough came when she performed "¿Dónde podré gritarte que
te quiero?" at the IV Festival de la Canción Dominicana in 1971. She released
her first LP, Esta Es....Sonia Silvestre (1975), and throughout the 1970s and
1980s, won multiple Premios El Dorado fo...