Anthony Santos, artistically known as Romeo Santos, is a Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter of Puerto Rican (father) and Dominican (mother) descent, born on July 21, 1981, in the Bronx, New York
Santos is world-renowned for his interpretation of Dominican bachata, which he has blended with other rhythms like hip hop and rhythm and blues (an American genre stemming from blues, jazz, and gospel). He is considered the king of Bachata.
In 1993, Santos formed the Dominican music group Aventura in New York. Their song "Obsesión," written by him and included in the album "We Broke the Rules" released in 2002, reached the top of the charts in countries like Italy, where it held the number one position for 16 consecutive weeks. In America and the United States, it also reached number 10 and stayed on the charts for several months.
Since 2011, Romeo has begun his solo career. He has recorded four studio albums under the record label Sony Music Latin. The first three, Fórmula: Vol. 1 (2012), Fórmula: Vol. 2 (2014), and Golden (2017), have earned him numerous awards and recognitions, including four Guinness records, such as tropical solo artist with the highest sales, tropical solo artist with the most years at number one on the Billboard charts, and tropical album with the most years at number one on the Billboard year-end charts.
The fourth record was thanks to his song "Propuesta indecente," which earned him the record for the most consecutive weeks on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart. The song remained on that chart for 125 consecutive weeks, from August 10, 2013, to December 26, 2015.
In April 2019, "Aullando," a song performed with Puerto Ricans Wisin and Yandel, which is part of the album "Campeones del Pueblo" by the latter two, achieved Triple Platinum and Gold certifications in Mexico. The song's author is the Cuban Descemer Bueno.
Among her most popular collaborations are, Ella y yo with Don Omar, Frío, Frío with Juan Luis Guerra, Yo también with Marc Anthony, Hey Ma with Pitbull and Britney Spears, Margarita with Carlos Santana, Loco with Enrique Iglesias, and more recently La mejor versión de mi with Natti Natasha, among others.
In 2019, Santos shared a video on his Instagram profile featuring a clip of Celia Cruz alongside the group he was a member of, the Fania All-Stars. He wrote, "This serves as an example of how our Latin music has been breaking barriers for decades, even in non-Spanish speaking markets. Here is our queen Celia Cruz in Africa, alongside the Fania All Stars."
In cinema, Santos was the voice of Early in Angry Birds in 2016 and made a cameo in Fast and Furious 7 in 2015.
