1. Antony Santos became the first rural bachatero to reach a mainstream audience with his hit single, "Voy Pa'lla".
29 Facts About Antony Santos
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Today, Santos is unanimously considered the greatest bachata artist of all time.
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Antony Santos is known as El Bachatu, the nickname he originally started with.
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Antony Santos was born in 1967 in Clavellinas, Las Matas de Santa Cruz in Monte Cristi Province.
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Antony Santos grew up in an extremely poor family in a little house on farmland.
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Antony Santos's father worked many meaningless jobs for essentially no pay, and the family would often go without food due to having little to no income.
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Antony Santos entered onto the bachata scene in the late 1980s, beginning his career as the guira player for fellow bachatero Luis Vargas, only to leave the group and maintain a very public feud with Vargas.
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In 1991, Antony Santos would make his debut with the release of his first single titled "Voy Pa'lla".
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Antony Santos once performed this song live with American bachata singer Romeo Santos in the 2000s.
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In 2001, Antony Santos released his tenth studio album El Balazo.
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Antony Santos would be featured in other songs like the 2004 song, "Ay Amor", which was a part of the 2004 album Vuelve Amor.
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The group's lead singer Romeo Santos would make more singles with Antony.
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Also, around this time period, Antony would start using the letter "H" in his name, thus going under the name Anthony Santos since the mid or late-2000s.
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On March 1,2014, Antony Santos would celebrate 25 years of his career in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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On November 4,2014, Antony Santos released the greatest hits album, 25 Grandes Exitos.
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On March 24,2015, Antony Santos released the first single for his 2015 album titled "Que Cosas Tiene El Amor", which featured American bachata singer Prince Royce.
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Antony Santos won Bachata Artist of the Year for the fifth time and Bachata Song of the year with the song Mal Educado, which is part of his 2018 album.
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Antony Santos then released the audio only version on all music streaming platforms on August 8,2022.
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Antony Santos did this through his use of an Alvarez 5084N guitar, with a humbucker mounted in the sound hole, and an Ibanez PT4 pedal.
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Antony Santos is credited as one of the first to use Yamaha APX series of guitars in bachata.
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Antony Santos has used bachata guitar sounds on merengue and balada songs.
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Not only is Antony Santos considered the greatest bachata artist of all time, but he is considered to be the most successful musician to ever come from the Dominican Republic.
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Antony Santos has served as an inspiration to many bachata artists and musicians, including Romeo Santos, vocalist of American bachata group Aventura, who considers him a father figure in the music industry.
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Antony Santos is a father of four children; two daughter, Yamelin and Jordalin; and two sons, Anthony Jr.
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Antony Santos featured Jordi and Jordalin on the back cover of his sixth studio album Sabor Latino.
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Antony Santos was once married to Griselda Rodriguez, the mother of his children, and sister of Raulin Rodriguez, making him and Raulin brothers-in-law at the time and the uncle of Antony Santos' children.
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Rodriguez claims that the divorce ended in bad terms and that Antony Santos had caused a lot of emotional and sentimental damage in the family.
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Since the divorce, both Rodriguez and Antony Santos have not been on good terms.
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Antony Santos claimed that Santos had disrespected him during a concert at the stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.