Anthony Santos, artistically known as Romeo Santos, is an 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 fused with other rhythms such as hip hop and rhythm and blues (an American genre that emerged from blues, jazz, and gospel). He is regarded as the king of Bachata.
In 1993, Santos formed the Dominican music group Aventura in New York. Their song "Obsesión," written by him and from the album We Broke the Rules released in 2002, topped the charts in countries like Italy, where it held the number one position for 16 consecutive weeks. In the Americas and the United States, it also reached number 10 and remained on the charts for several months.
Since 2011, Romeo has begun his solo career. He has released 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: for being the tropical solo artist with the highest sales, for the tropical solo artist with the most years at number one on the Billboard charts, and for the 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 the title of the song with the most consecutive weeks on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart. The song spent 125 consecutive weeks on that chart, 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 status in Mexico. The song was written by 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 part of, the Fania All-Stars. He wrote, "This serves as an example that our Latin music has been transcending barriers for decades, even in non-Spanish-speaking markets. Here is our queen Celia Cruz in Africa, alongside the Fania All Star."
In the cinema, Santos was the voice of Early in Angry Birds in 2016 and made a cameo in Fast and Furious 7 in 2015.
