The following year, he released his second live album El Mayimbe, Vol. It featured the single 'Si Volvieras', 'Cuanto Lamento', 'Me Quiero Morir', which peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Tropical Airplay chart. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart. In 2001, Santos released his tenth studio album El Balazo. It also contained the smash hit 'No Te Puedo Olvidar' the intro of the song was used as a sample for Bad Bunny's 2022 single ' Tití Me Preguntó'.Ĭontinuation of success in the 2000s (2000-2009) Antony Santos performing live in 2007 It featured the singles like 'Si Quieres Volver', Ay Querida, and 'Pégame Tu Vicio'. Later on that same year, he released his ninth studio album Enamorado. In 1999, he released his first live album El Mayimbe: En Vivo. Around this time, he would become the second artist to ever win Bachata Artist of the year at the 1996 Cassandra Awards (now Soberano Awards). It is part of Romeo's second live album Utopía Live from MetLife Stadium.įrom 1994 to 1998, he released more albums with more successful single like 'Corazón Culpable', 'No Te Vayas', 'Si Me Olvidaste', 'Consejo De Padre', 'Durmiendo Solo', 'Soñe Con Ella', 'Ay! No Te Vayas', Me Voy Mañana and Ya No Me Quieres Querer. In 2019, Romeo would perform this song live at MetLife Stadium in front of a sold out crowd as an homage to Antony. He once performed this song live with American bachata singer Romeo Santos live together.

It included hits like 'Si Tu Cariño No Está', 'Dónde Estará', 'Por Mi Timidez', which peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Tropical Airplay chart. In 1993, he released his third album titled Corazón Bonito. It included the merengues like 'El Baile Del Perrito' and 'Yo Me Muero Por Ti', and bachata songs 'Florecita Blanca', Vengo De Alla, 'Antologia De Caricias', a cover of a Altamira Banda Show song, and Ay Mujer, which is a cover of Juan Luis Guerra's song.

It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Tropical Albums chart. In 1992, he released his second studio album titled La Batalla. The album also included songs like 'La Parcela' and 'Te Vas Amor', which is a bachata cover of the song 'Tu Carcel', a song by Mexican group Los Bukis. In the same year, he released his debut album, La Chupadera. The song became a huge hit, thus making him the first rural bachatero to reach a mainstream audience. It is also the first single for his first album. In 1991, Santos would make his debut with the release of his first single titled 'Voy Pa'llá'. Raulín Rodríguez also started his music career with Antony as a güira player. Santos entered onto the bachata scene in the early 1990s, beginning his career as the güira player for fellow bachatero Luis Vargas, only to leave the group and maintain a very public feud with Vargas. Career Early career, The Rise to Fame, and becoming the top Bachata artist in the 90s (1987-1999) His father worked many meaningless jobs for essentially no pay, and the family would often go without food due to having little to no income. He grew up in an extremely poor family in a little house on farmland. Santos was born in 1967 in Clavellinas, Las Matas de Santa Cruz in Monte Cristi Province. He is also known as El Bachatú, the nickname he originally started with. He is known as 'El Mayimbe' of Bachata, and is the second Dominican musician to acquire this moniker, after Fernando Villalona. Today, Santos is unanimously considered the greatest bachata artist of all time. He has had success with other hits like 'Por Mi Timidez', 'No Te Puedo Olvidar', 'Me Quiero Morir', 'Lloro', 'Solo Te Amo', ' Se Acabó El Abuso' among others. He became the first rural bachatero to reach a mainstream audience with his hit single, 'Voy Pa'lla'. One of the top-selling bachata artists of all time, he is known as one of the pioneers of modern bachata in the early 1990s, with his role in redefining the genre to include romantic lyrics, poppy guitar licks, and implementation of new instruments, such as the piano and saxophone. Domingo Antonio Santos Muñoz (born May 5, 1967), known professionally as Antony Santos, is a Dominican musician and singer.

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