On Thursday, Nov. 11, at 12 p.m. ET, Catalan singer and songwriter Rosalía dropped the music video for her recent single and very first bachata song, "La Fama," featuring The Weeknd. I've been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once viewed by elites with disdain, bachata has become popular worldwide. Erika Santelices/AFP via Getty Images What began as ...

Learn how to dance bachata and merengue in a free group dance lesson; then it's open dancing by the bay.

It used to be that recording artists had to be known for a specific genre to get signed to a label. But in recent years, more and more music artists have been experimenting with different genres — ...

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 ...

“We felt that [our music] was so unique that it could actually backfire on us,” recalls Anthony “Romeo” Santos of formulating a modern bachata sound as part of NYC’s Aventura. From the early Nineties ...

Jacki Lyden reads from listeners' letters. Topics include a correction on the origin of bachata music — it's from the Dominican Republic — and one listener's suggestion for the derivation of the term ...