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 derived from blues, jazz, and gospel). He is considered the king of Bachata.
In 1993, Santos formed the Dominican music group Aventura in New York, whose song "Obsesión," written by him and part of 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 stayed on the charts for several months.
Since 2011, Romeo began 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 the tropical solo artist with the most sales, another for the tropical solo artist with the most years at number one on the Billboard charts, and another for the tropical album with the most years at number one on Billboard's year-end charts.
The fourth record was due to his song Propuesta indecente, which earned him the song with the most consecutive weeks on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart. The song stayed on that chart for 125 consecutive weeks, from August 10, 2013, to December 26, 2015.
In April 2019, "Aullando," a song he performed with Puerto Ricans Wisin and Yandel and which is part of the album "Campeones del Pueblo" by the latter two, achieved Triple Platinum and Gold status in Mexico. The author of the song 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 of a fragment of Celia Cruz alongside the group he was a member of, the Fania All-Stars. He wrote, "This serves as an example that 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-Star."
In cinema, Santos was the voice of Early for Angry Birds in 2016 and made a cameo in Fast and Furious 7 in 2015.
