This reflects the Catholic understanding of desire as ordered toward the infinite, but also distorted by original sin. Santos’ music speaks of how the desire for love is embedded in the tension between ecstatic, supernatural joy and darkness, destruction. Though I didn’t realize it then, his music would accompany me through my journey into the Catholic Church.
I first discovered Romeo’s music ten years ago when someone in the dorm room next to mine started playing one of his first solo singles. Though Santos does not speak much about his personal faith, he uses religious imagery that borrows from the Catholic imagination of his youth. Though Santos does not speak much about his personal faith, he uses religious imagery that borrows from the Catholic imagination of his youth, exploring the paradoxical nature of the human desire for love. Thematically, the music he has written-both his solo work and with Aventura-continues in the tradition of heartbroken, love-sick bachata artists that precede him, but with more of an edge. Santos has made a name for himself with his high-pitched falsetto, which lends a sense of vulnerability to his songs. 1,” was successful both commercially and with critics. The band blended bachata-a bluesy guitar-driven style of dance music born in the Dominican countryside-with R&B, hip hop and rock, the sounds they heard playing on street corners in the Bronx.Īfter reaching international fame with their hit “Obsesión” and selling out Madison Square Garden, the band went on hiatus in 2011, giving Romeo a chance to work on his solo career. In 1994, he and his cousin Henry Santos formed the band Los Tinellers with brothers Lenny and Max Santos (no relation to Anthony and Henry), which in 1996 became Aventura. Though he initially joined the choir to meet girls, he quickly discovered he had a gift for singing. Born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother and Dominican father, Anthony Santos, who goes by Romeo on stage, first started singing in the choir at his family’s Catholic church.
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