![]() ![]() The 2007 set Kings of Bachata: Sold Out at Madison Square Garden featured guest performances from Miri Ben-Ari, Wisin & Yandel, and Don Omar. God's Project, released in 2005, was widely regarded as the group's best album to date, and it was followed with the two-CD/one-DVD set K.O.B.: Live. In 2003, they returned with Love & Hate, which saw them progressing even further with their sound, adding merengue into the mix and upping the R&B/hip-hop quotient without losing touch with their background, singing in Spanish, English, and Spanglish. audience, they also became popular in Europe, thanks to frequent touring and a different sound. However, as the album's title promised, they did break all the bachata rules, bringing the style very much into the new millennium without sacrificing the style's roots. Whatever they did, it appeared to work, as the single "ObsesiĆ³n" became a hit with Latin youth, finding a strong crossover into hip-hop. Three years passed before they released We Broke the Rules, during which time they worked hard to refine what they were doing and find a true direction. However, it fell between the cracks of both the burgeoning Latin movement and the pop/R&B chart-toppers. ![]() The material, however, was their own, and they resisted the attempt to turn them into a cookie-cutter boy band in the style of the Backstreet Boys or *NSYNC by ensuring that the bachata element remained dominant. Signed to BMG, they released their debut - with an outside producer. Interestingly, unlike other youths seeking success, they didn't give themselves over to a producer who might mold their sound instead, they proceeded to learn all the skills they needed themselves, from production to instruments. The group was formed in 1994 in the Bronx by four boys (Anthony Santos, Lenny Santos, Max Santos, and Henry Santos Jeter) who were determined to break Dominican bachata music out from its traditional base and fuse it with the other sounds they heard every day, like hip-hop and R&B. A New York-based Dominican boy band with roots deep in bachata? If that sounds unlikely, well, Aventura managed to cope with it.
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