Bachata can help if you have problems with friends, parents, or girlfriend They dance a lot of Bachata around here It's something you feel it's in our blood, Dominicans when we hear Bachata we dance It can create many strong emotions in you I think to dance Bachata you should feel it Bachata inspires me to laugh, dance, and sing To have a few drinks also When a Dominican hears a Bachata a euphoria fills them and they want to party Bachata comes from our ancestors So when you are listening to it you get a good feeling We eat Bachata here like we eat pig in December. Its cool! We feel, we suffer, we do anything for Bachata We even cry.
I even cry sometimes! You might think of someone you lost long ago, or someone you just met You relive past memories When you drink and enjoy with Bachata, you remember the past and live the present Bachata is a musical genre Bachata has two essences African and Spanish Bachata is a feeling of love and heartbreak If you don't sing from the soul, it's not Bachata You feel they expressing melancholy, a sadness something is tormenting them Their love left, they were cheated on. .
. the hope to change You feel it in the melody, the way the guitar is played in the way the singer expresses themselves For me this feeling, this melancholy, expressed musically, this is Bachata With guitar, bongo, güira, bass, and a singer. This is Bachata There is not a "Father" of the Bachata The Father of Bachata was a guy who had a child.
. . with the Mother of Bachata and he left and nobody learned who he was he left his child and nobody knows where he is Maybe you don't know where the word Bachata comes from?
Bachata is a reunion of friends it can be friends or family, that get together on the patio You get together to party or talk, each person has an instrument it doesn't have to be to play Bachata, you could play Merengue. everyone grabs an instrument, and we have a good time, this is a Bachata So they gave the genre the name Bachata because some famous musicians they didn't want this simple music to overtake their "profound" music So they said to the media that this music is just a "Bachata" to say that this was just a rural gathering I loved to Party I watched them saying this on a TV program, that this music was called Bachata They said that those of us who recorded it didn't know how to read or write That this was soldiers music, for brothels and prostitutes and those that listened to it were the same as those that recorded it Since that day they called this musical genre Bachata and it divided Bolero (what it was called before) from Bachata The name Bachata was discriminatory Today it's considered good to play Bachata Thanks to the work of masters like Edilio, Luis Segura, Jose Manuel Calderon Marino Perez, Angel Guerrero, Bolivar Peralta, so many people Ramon Torres, Ramon Cordero, the woman I already mentioned (Mélida Rodriguez) Eladio Romero Santos, Victor Estevez All of them supported it for years, dealing with discrimination. .
. Leonardo Paniagua We are putting out hit after hit, each day there are more Bachateros. .
. that each day are giving more to the genre. and to the public around the world So to the person that thinks Bachata is not music, or just soldiers music.
. . unfortunately its not like that, Bachata is a reality I'm proud to be part of Bachata, one of our national prides.
For how it has grown and what it represents for us Dominicans If a Dominican hears a Bachata in Japan they are happy! If they are in the USA or Europe they are happy!
