Aventura

Über Aventura

Aventura took bachata global. Formed in the Bronx by Dominican teenagers around the songwriting of Romeo Santos, they spliced the guitar tradition of their parents with R&B, hip-hop, and English-language asides, inventing an urban bachata that spoke to the diaspora. Obsesión topped charts across Europe and Latin America in 2002 and turned a once-scorned Dominican genre into a worldwide phenomenon. They remain the most commercially successful bachata act ever.