Anthony Santos, referring to himself as Romeo Santos, was born on July 21, 1981. The city of birth was New York, the Bronx area.
This man became famous as a bilingual singer and composer. The main style direction of the singer was music in the direction of bachata.
How it all began?
Anthony Santos often attended church with his parents and other relatives.
There he sang church songs with his cousin Henry Santos. Later, Anthony and Henry decided to create their own personal group called "Aventura".
The career debut of these guys can be considered 1995, when the singers first performed in a serious way on the Trampa de Amor stage.
In 1999, a young band with great potential decided to release an album called Generation Next.
At that moment, the members of Aventura experimented with various musical directions and combined such genres of music as bachata, hip-hop, R&B in their work.
And it is worth recognizing that young people readily appreciated the new releases of songs. Then, in 2002, the hit "Obsesión" was released, which was included in the group's third album. This hit prompted the group to record several more crazy albums in the following time:
- 2003 - "Love & Hate";
- 2005 - "God's Project";
- 2006 - "KOB Live";
- 2009 - "The Last".
The album released in 2009 was the final one in their career. All previous albums have always contained the greatest hits and singles. But in Anthony's dreams, a solo career was born.
Therefore, 2011 became the official year of the breakup of the Aventura group. From this moment on, Anthony Santos goes into solo swimming.
Starting your own career
At first, Anthony Santos was looking for partners to help him promote his solo career. Therefore, he signed a cooperation contract with Sony Music.
From the first album, the hits "You" and "I Promise" turned out to be explosive. Anthony writes the lyrics and music himself.
For his songs, Anthony Santos found fans from all over Latin America. Then the singer becomes so popular that his work is compared at the level of Nikki Minaj, Marc Anthony, Tego Calderon.
During this period of his life, Anthony decides to change his stage name to Romeo Santos.
In 2013, the third solo album was released with two hit songs - "Propuesta Indecente" and "Odio". Santos' songs have received fairly high ratings on US radio.
Now fame itself found Anthony, making him popular on two continents of America.
What happened next?
Romeo Santos never stopped experimenting with music. He was attracted by the idea of adding electronic musical instruments to the current style.
Over time, he incorporated the sound of the saxophone into his music. In general, the bachata direction has always gained a large number of fans, but Santos sought to improve it.
Then the collaboration with Marc Anthony literally blew up the music industry in Latin America when the world saw the clip "Yo Tambien". Each of the performers got a significant piece of glory.
The most interesting
The singer has a teenage son. As for getting married, Santos isn't exactly sure about marriage. But above all, as he himself states, he believes in true love. But he prefers not to talk about his personal life.
With the release of the new song "No tiene la culpa", rumors spread about the singer's unconventional orientation. But he himself denies it.
The song itself tells the story of a gay teenager who has a strict father and a kind mother.
Romeo Santos shares that he wrote this song not to gain even more popularity, but to reveal the general problem of public relations regarding same-sex marriage.
Of course, not all fans were impressed with such a bold decision by the author of the song. Santos even received ignorant comments.
Today, Romeo Santos is known for his most popular hits, but he does not want to stop there.
The singer is well aware that the public expects new experiments from him in the music industry.
