Agridulce' follows four young students at Academia de Bachata, a music conservatory in the beachside resort town of Caberete.

See the artists who've added to bachata's growing presence in Latin pop this decade. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin A year ago, Billboard predicted the trends we would see over the course of ...

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Bachata music has blown up internationally. Bachata music comes from the Dominican Republic in the 1960's but thanks to newer acts like Romeo Santos and Aventura, has blown up internationally. We ...

Friday in New York, four legends of Dominican bachata music will take the stage as part of the Chase Latino Cultural Festival. The musicians, all in their 60s, play a type of bachata little known ...

Bachata has come a very long way. During the 31 years dictator Rafael Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic, the musical genre was banned in most parts of the island because of its connection to ...

What began as songs about heartbreak in the brothels and barrios of the Dominican Republic in the 1960s has become a worldwide sensation. Even the Bee Gees have gotten a bachata spin. Prince Royce’s ...

The hottest artist on the Latin charts right now is Dominican-American Romeo Santos. His band Aventura has sold 4 million records in the U.S. and sold out Madison Square Garden in New York several ...

After years of success behind the scenes, Yenddi began stepping forward as a recording artist. His debut single as a lead performer, "Diez Segundos," released with Zacarías Ferreira, quickly became ...

Both Colombian singer-songwriter Camilo and Dominican dembow star El Alfa dipped their toes into the bachata genre when they dropped their 2020 collaboration “Bebé.” The melody fuses traditional ...