Fulanito Might just really be “El Hombre Mas Famoso De La Tierra”… la tierra Dominicana I mean, stay with me for a second on this one. See I had this idea of how this article was going to go, in my head I mean, I know Fulanito’s music, I’ve been a fan since Guayando, I understand the mix of genre’s that it takes in order to produce the sound. That was going to be my angle, Dominican man fuses his culture with a new style creates great melody while keeping tradition alive bada bing bada boom right? As I did more research on D.O.S.E. (Lead singer) and the ensemble Fulanito, I realized…

There are but a handful of young, solo artists who dare to tackle the challenge of performing bachata music at the international level like Prince Royce has. There are fewer still who embody the charisma and talent to make the genre their own, in a way that nobody has before. In a relatively short time, Prince Royce has done just that and then some by introducing the genre of bachata to a worldwide mainstream audience who had never been exposed to it and reaching unprecedented success in the Latin music industry. Prince Royce’s self-titled debut album has been certified Double Platinum by the RIAA and garnered a 2010 Latin GRAMMY® nomination (for…

Grupo Xtreme is perhaps my favorite bachata group until they broke up in 2011, let me take the perhaps out, and that’s not in Urban Bachata only, I’m talking about bachata period. The members of the group Xtreme are Steven Tejada (born November 25, 1985) and Danny Mejia (born July 23, 1985) both of Dominican descent, musically, they are individually known as Steve Styles and Danny D.  While Steve is listed as the lead singer of the group, in their songs the weight of the track is usually split between both singers. Formed in 2003, their first release was in 2004 entitled “Xtreme” released under SGZ, and then re-released under Univision music…