Auteur: Sellers Julie A. Sellers

Bachata–a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo’s urban shantytowns in the 1960s–is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the …

The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s. Brought to the U.S. by Dominican migrants, it has continually developed to reflect the changing tastes …