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 stemming 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 featured on the 2002 album We Broke the Rules, 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 remained on the charts for several months.
Since 2011, Romeo began 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, such as for the best-selling tropical solo artist, the tropical solo artist with the most weeks at number one on the Billboard charts, and the tropical album with the most years at number one on Billboard's year-end charts.
The fourth record was thanks to his song "Propuesta indecente," which earned the distinction of having the most consecutive weeks on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart. The song remained on the chart for 125 consecutive weeks, from August 10, 2013, to December 26, 2015.
In April 2019, "Aullando," a song performed in collaboration with Puerto Ricans Wisin and Yandel and featured on their album *Campeones del Pueblo*, achieved Triple Platinum and Gold status in Mexico. The song was written by Cuban artist Descemer Bueno.
Among his 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 of which he was a member, 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 the cinema, Santos provided the voice of Early for Angry Birds in 2016 and made a cameo in Fast and Furious 7 in 2015.
