Romeo Santos

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For the footballer, see Anthony Santos (footballer). For the Dominican bachata singer, see Antony Santos.
Romeo Santos
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Santos performing at the Julio Martínez Prádanos National Stadium in 2015
Background information
Birth name Anthony Santos
Born (1981-07-21) July 21, 1981 (age 42)
New York City, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer
  • actor
Years active 1994–present
Labels
Associated acts
Website romeosantosonline.com

Anthony "Romeo" Santos (born July 21, 1981)[1] is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actor, best known as the lead member and vocalist of the bachata group Aventura. In 2002, the song "Obsesión" reached number one in Italy for 16 consecutive weeks. He released several albums with Aventura before the group broke up. Since then, Santos has embarked on a solo career which has spawned seven number one songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart and sixteen number ones on the Tropical Songs chart. Over his career, he sold over 40 million albums and over 100 million singles.[2]

Early life

Santos was born in 1981 in the Bronx, New York City to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother.[3] He had a humble upbringing, with his father, who worked in construction, under-paid but earning enough for his family with his mother staying at home to take care of them. Santos began his career by singing in a church choir at a young age.[4] Romeo was exposed to Latin genres of music at a young age due to his parents.[5]

Musical Influences

Romeo was inspired by many exponents of music to compose his songs, among them are: Shakira,[6] Camilo Sesto, Rocio Durcal Juan Gabriel, Manuel Alejandro, within his genre are: Juan Luis Guerra and Anthony Santos.

Music career

Aventura

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Santos in 2011

Romeo was the lead singer, songwriter and co-producer of Aventura. Aventura was formed in 1996 by Anthony "Romeo" Santos, his cousin Henry Santos "Hustle Hard", and friends Lenny Santos "Len Melody", and Max Santos "Mikey a.k.a Max Agende".

Aventura released their debut album in 1999 with the hopes of breaking bachata music into the mainstream from its traditional base and fuse it with hip hop and R&B. In 2002, the song, "Obsesión" achieved huge success in many countries, topping many international charts in France, Germany and Italy. Aventura released five studio albums in a decade, spawning many top 10 hits like internationally famous "Obsesión", "Cuando Volverás", "Un Beso", :Amor de Madre", "Los Infieles", "El Perdedor", "Por Un Segundo", "Dile Al Amor", and many others.

In 2009, Aventura was invited to perform for the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama at the White House.

In 2011 Aventura separated. According to Romeo, the group was "on pause to do individual projects".[7] Romeo, along Lenny, Mikey and Henry (Aventura) reunited to close out the second night of Romeo Santos' sold-out Yankee Stadium concerts on July 12, 2014.[8] It was announced on December 1, 2015, that Aventura would have a set of concerts for the last time as a group for the whole month of February at the United Palace Theater in New York City. Their first concert since their split started with a sold-out crowd on February 4, 2016, with the final concert ending on February 28, 2016. On December 8, 2019, Romeo Santos posted a video saying that Aventura is going on tour around the United States in 2020 called Gira Inmortal.

Solo

In April 2011, after his success as a songwriter and the lead singer for Aventura, Romeo announced he was leaving the band to pursue a solo career. Romeo Santos signed with Sony records on April 7, 2011.[9]

On May 9, 2011, he released the debut single and his first single off his debut album Fórmula, Vol. 1, called "You".[10] The song went to number one on the Hot Latin Songs and Tropical Songs charts.[11] The second single "Promise", featured a collaboration with R&B singer Usher.[12] As with the previous single, "Promise" topped the Hot Latin Songs and Tropical Songs charts.[13]

He released his debut album Fórmula Vol. 1 on November 8, 2011. The album featured collaborations with Usher, La Mala Rodríguez, Mario Domm from the trio Camila, Tomatito, Lil Wayne and George Lopez. It also featured bachata legends Antony "El Mayimbe" Santos, Luis Vargas, Raulin Rodriguez as they united for the song "Debate De 4" ("Debate Of 4").

In 2012, he sold out New York City's famous Madison Square Garden three nights in a row. The performance was then turned into a CD and DVD package and subsequently released as a live album, The King Stays King: Sold Out at Madison Square Garden.

His second album, Fórmula, Vol. 2, was released on February 25, 2014. It featured collaborations with Drake, Nicki Minaj, Marc Anthony, Carlos Santana, Tego Calderón, and Kevin Hart.[14] Formula, Vol. 2 became the best-selling Latin album of 2014.[15] The music video for "Propuesta Indecente", which is the first single of the album, was the first one to reach over 1 billion views on YouTube.[16] His second single, Odio, featured Canadian rapper Drake. Both singles peaked at #1 on the Hot Latin Songs, Latin Airplay and Tropical Songs charts.

In 2014, he sold out an entire double-header show at Yankee Stadium.[17] Santos was the first Latin artist to headline at the stadium. The Fania All-Stars last did so, one block south at the old Yankee Stadium on August 24, 1973.

He released the single "Héroe Favorito" in February 2017, the lead single for his third studio album "Golden". He released his new album Golden on July 21, 2017, featuring collaborations with Swizz Beatz, Juan Luis Guerra, Ozuna, Nicky Jam, Daddy Yankee, Julio Iglesias and Jessie Reyez. Winner of Best Bachata Video in the Videoclip Awards 2018 with the music video of the single "Imitadora" directed by Carlos Pérez, also nominated as Best Latin Album in the Billboard Music Awards 2018.

In April 2019, he released his fourth studio album "Utopía" where he united with pioneers and legends of traditional modern bachata. El Chaval De La Bachata, Frank Reyes, Raulin Rodriguez, Elvis Martinez, Kiko Rodriguez, Teodoro Reyes, Joe Veras, Zacarias Ferreira, Luis Vargas, Monchy & Alexandra, and Anthony "El Mayimbe" Santos all participated in the album to show that unification within bachata is possible. The band Aventura, as a group, released an official song within this album also titled Inmortal. It was released as the lead single for the album.

In September 2019, Romeo Santos sold out MetLife Stadium. The concert was based on the album "Utopía". A live album was released on September 10, 2021 titled "Utopía Live from MetLife Stadium".[18] It was named after the concert film released earlier that year.

On February 8, 2022, Romeo Santos announced that he would release a new album. It was first rumored, but then confirmed by Santos himself through YouTube and social media. It will be part of the Formula series as this album is titled Fórmula, Vol. 3.[19] Fans expected the third volume to have been his third studio album. However, his third studio album ended up being titled Golden and then Utopía for his fourth. After those two albums, fans never thought Fórmula would get a trilogy, until now.[20] Its first single, Sus Huellas was released on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2022. On July 22, 2022, Santos performed on NBC's Today as part of the Citi Summer Concert Series. He said that he is planning to release the album on September 1, 2022, which is on his first born son's birthday. He did not confirm that it would be the official released date, but he said he was working on it.[21] On August 15th, 2022, he posted a teaser and confirmed that the official release date was going to be on the date he had mention at the concert series.[22]

On September 1, 2022, Fórmula, Vol. 3 was released.[23] It was released along with the music video for the single "Sin Fin" which featured American singer Justin Timberlake. His fans were confused when on that day at midnight the album wasn't available at that moment. Later on in the morning, Santos announced on social media that the album would be released at 11pm, which was 23 hours after the expected release time. The album featured collaborations with Justin Timberlake, Rosalía, bachata veteran Luis Miguel Del Amargue, Christian Nodal, Chris Lebron, Lapiz Conciente, and Katt Williams. It also featured merengue legends Fernando Villalona, Rubby Pérez, Toño Rosario, Ramon Orlando as they united for the song "15,000 Noches" ("15,000 Nights"). Santos included his manager Johnny Marines, requinto guitarist ChiChi and producer MateTraxx for a skit which featured a special character. He also included his 3 sons in the intro along with Williams. Santos mentioned that one of the reasons this album is his most personal one is because of his 3 sons being involved in it.

Concert film and documentary

In June 2021, Romeo Santos: Utopía Live from MetLife Stadium was released as a PPV event, based on the September 2019 concert in New York that featured guests Cardi B, Daddy Yankee, Emilio Estefan, Marc Anthony, Thalía and more.[24] Concurrently, HBO Max released a documentary on Santos called Romeo Santos: King of Bachata which traced the history of Bachata, and showed Santos travelling to the Dominican Republic with The Kid Mero.[25] To promote the documentary, HBO built an elaborate pop-up promotion in Washington Heights, NYC in the form of a bodega, called House of Bachata, with free haircuts, Presidente beer, and karaoke parties honoring Santos. At its center was a PORTL "hologram" device in which Santos appeared in lifelike, lifesized, volumetric 4K to interact with fans.[26]

Acting career

His first film appearance was on the 2007 Dominican film "Sanky Panky" as himself alongside his fellow band members from Aventura performing live at Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic. Romeo Santos made his Hollywood debut in the film Furious 7, released April 2015, alongside Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and Paul Walker.[27][28] He was nervous about acting in Furious 7 but the cast made him feel welcomed.[29]

Santos was also the voice of the cartoon character Early Bird in the 2016 film The Angry Birds Movie.

He sang "Quiero Ser Tu Amigo", a song about friendship, on an episode of Sesame Street in 2013.

Discography

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Main article: Romeo Santos discography

Tours

Filmography

Live concerts

Documentary

Movies

Year Title Role Notes
2007 Sanky Panky Himself with Aventura Cameo
2015 Furious 7[27][28] Armando (Mando) Cameo
2016 The Angry Birds Movie The Early Bird Cameo

Awards and nominations

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Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Romeo Santos

References

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