After enjoying many successful years with Aventura, Romeo Santos decided to move on to a solo career in 2011.

Besides being the band’s lead singer, he was a talented songwriter who wrote most of the lyrics in the band’s original songs. Romeo Santos played a major role in the success that surrounded Aventura. The album, which included the hit song “Obsesion” written by Romeo Santos, transformed Aventura into the most popular Latin boy band of that time. In 2002, the band released the album We Broke the Rules, an innovative and challenging work that defied traditional Bachata by injecting it with a fusion of genres such as R&B and Hip-Hop. That year, the newly formed group released its debut album, Generation Next.Īlthough the album was well received by the group’s fan base in New York, the best was yet to come for Aventura. At that time, the band changed its name to Grupo Aventura.

In 1999, Los Teenagers signed a deal with the record label Premium Latin. As a result, he later formed a group named Los Teenagers, which was very popular among Dominican-American youth in New York City. When he was 13 years old, Romeo Santos joined the choir of his church, an experience that allowed him to discover his unique vocal skills. Thanks to his parents (Dominican father and Puerto Rican mother), Romeo Santos was exposed from a very young age to the sounds of Tropical genres, such as Salsa, Merengue and Bachata. A former member of the group Aventura and a leading artist of the so-called Urban Bachata movement, Romeo Santos has played a major role in transforming this traditional Dominican genre into a mainstream phenomenon.Īnthony ‘Romeo’ Santos was born in The Bronx, New York, on July 21, 1981. Romeo Santos (born July 21, 1981), is one of the most influential Bachata stars in the world, and one of today’s most influential voices in Latin music.

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