Musician Joan Soriano grew up in a poor village outside Santo Domingo, the seventh of 15 children, and dropped out of school in sixth grade. He learned to play bachata, the gritty, soulful, ...
Bachata is guitar-based music born in the poor neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. It emerged from the shadows in the 1960s, only to be derided as low-class. Today, bachata is one of the ...
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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 ...