From the old-school bachateros like Frank Reyes, Raulín Rodríguez, and Blas Durán to modern artists like Romeo Santos, here are the best bachata songs.

Before it took over Latin dance halls worldwide, bachata arose from Dominican shantytowns as a kind of lower-class party music. Now, a recent CD and a series of concerts are bringing the genre's ...

The dancing began early at Bachata Fest, a gathering of several leading acts in the Dominican romantic style.

“Fórmula Vol. 3” soars when it expands the scope of the genre and the singer’s own approaches to its trademarks, but falls flat when it relies on backward-looking tropes.