Xtreme- Te Extraño (Bachata) Enrique Iglesias Cuando Me Enamoro Official Music Video. Juan Luis Guerra - Mi Bendicion (Live) Romeo Santos - Propuesta Indecente. A Brief History of Bachata | I Live Salsa. From our post Introduction to Other Latin Dances we now delve further into the sensual dance from D.R. known as Bachata. Bachata is another dance from the Dominican Republic, with subjects of forlorn emotion, romance, and heartbreak. Bachata is the equivalent of Blues in America, many of the same themes are discussed a similar resolutions such as looking for yourself at the bottom of the bottle. You can easily recognize bachata for its predominant use of the electric guitar which usually plucks out the main rhythm, usually an eight note run. An evolution from the Bolero, bachata has had much success in clubs in recent years. This music form had a rough beginning from censorship, to denigration, to almost extinction. After the Trujillo dictatorship ended, censorship feel away and bachata poked its head onto the scene.
The popularity eventually lead to a collapse of the unofficial censoring. Dance evolves from Music On To The Basics Change is Natural Bachata Tango – Tango and Bachata fusion. Bachata defenition. Ivy Queen - Dime. History of Bachata, The guitar music of the Dominican Republic. Bachata is a popular guitar music from the Dominican Republic. Now overwhelmingly successful among Latinos in the United States, bachata took shape over a period of about forty years in the bars and brothels of Santo Domingo, not gaining acceptance in its native land until about ten years ago.
Young groups like Aventura have a similar relationship to original bachata as rock and rollers do to the blues, which has languished in the shadow of its more commercially viable descendant. In fact, the parallel between bachata and the blues is marked. Although bachata developed out of, and bachateros play, a variety of different rhythms, notably including merengue, the music which is specifically called bachata is a variant of the bolero.
The bolero in Latin culture has traditionally been a romantic music, dealing with themes like deception and lost love.