As the main singer and songwriter for Aventura, the band of brothers and friends he cofounded in 1996, Santos took bachata mainstream.
In 2019, Santos' launched his Utopia Tour, following his Golden tour, a nearly three-hour excursion featuring the hits that have sold more than 100 million singles and 40 million albums throughout his 20-year career.Īnthony "Romeo" Santos was born in the Bronx in 1981 to a Dominican father and Puerto Rican mother.
I mean, who doesn’t like hearing a guy obsess over a woman, how he can’t sleep thinking about her, saying her current boyfriend is “short and not good-looking” and can’t please her like he would, making an appointment with a psychiatrist, his friends not talking to him because he only speaks of her, him looking for her at school, talking to her friends to get her number… I mean gosh, this guy is so crazy, he makes the crazy boyfriend in the “ psycho Boyfriend” Episode in Gritty Spanish blush.Īt first I only understood the “Chorus”, but as I kept listening and reading the lyrics in both English and Spanish, of course I was able to understand more and more as I go along… Remember, the more you listen to Spanish music, it gets easier and easier to comprehend all the while improving your overall Spanish ( Listening, reading and yes speaking).The American-born king of the danceably melodramatic Dominican style known as bachata, Romeo Santos has created an irrepressible solo presence since leaving the remarkably successful bachata boy band Aventura in 2011. I figured at the time, if I want to get more into the Spanish culture and improve my Spanish comprehension, then I couldn’t go wrong with a “best of”…Īt the time, I thought this song was wayyyy to fast for me, but I kept listening, because the topic was interesting and entertaining.
This was a song, I stumbled upon listening to a “best of” bachata compilation I had purchased a few yrs. I wanted to introduce you to a song called, “Obsesión” by a classic group named Aventura.
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