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Bachata
The Dominican Republic's guitar music
Bachata is the guitar-led popular music of the Dominican Republic — romantic, syncopated and built around a distinctive lead guitar line. Once dismissed as music of the rural poor, it is now danced worldwide.
Origin & history
Bachata grew in the Dominican Republic through the middle of the twentieth century out of bolero and other guitar traditions of the region, long treated as disreputable by Dominican radio.
It moved into the mainstream in the later twentieth century and then internationally, carried both by Dominican artists at home and by the diaspora in New York.
Artistas destacados
Juan Luis Guerra
Dominican musician whose work brought bachata wide international attention.
Romeo Santos
Dominican-American singer central to bachata's modern, diaspora-shaped era.
Donde vive
Preguntas y respuestas
What is bachata?+
Bachata is the guitar-led romantic popular music of the Dominican Republic, with a distinctive syncopated lead guitar and a partner dance of the same name.
Where is bachata from?+
The Dominican Republic.
Is bachata the same as merengue?+
No. Both are Dominican, but merengue is faster and horn- or accordion-led, while bachata is slower, guitar-led and romantic in subject.
