Alexa (Hilma Alexandra Ingold) is a Dominican urban singer born in Baní, Peravia, and based in Basel, Switzerland. Raised in Europe from the age of nine, she built her career from the diaspora and became one of the pioneering women of Dominican música urbana — a singer and composer whose reguetón carries merengue and hip-hop in its DNA. Her own billing, "Alexa La Fashionista," came from those early years.

Career

Her breakthrough was «Dame tu amor» (2009–2010), arranged by Víctor Waill and picked up as a theme of the Colombian series «Las Muñecas de la Mafia»; the Dominican DJs' association named her "Artista del Momento" in 2010. Her album «Corazón Urbano» (2011) — her fourth production, after «El Boom» — carried «Dame tu amor», «El actor» and «Mejor sola», written by Wason Brazobán. Alexa also reached back into the classic Dominican songbook with her own versions of Luis "Terror" Díaz's «Yo quiero andar», cut in both bachata and merengue and performed on Dominican television in the early 2010s. In the streaming era she has kept releasing from Switzerland — «Mucha Bebida» and «Levanta la botella» with Shelow Shaq (2021), «Pajarito» and «Yo quiero andar» (2022), «La perra» (2023), «El actor» (2024) and the live EP «Palabras (En Vivo)» (2025) — and still performs for Dominican audiences across Europe.

Legacy

Alexa opened her road far from home: a girl from Baní who left at nine and came back through the speakers, carrying Dominican urban music onto Colombian television and European stages. Her catalog joins the genre's first wave to the classics — the same voice behind «Dame tu amor» also sang Luis Díaz. That double belonging, Baní and Basel, street and songbook, is her signature.