Let's look at the history of bachata, that is a popular guitar music from the Dominican Republic, today overwhelmingly has won boom among Latinos living in the United States. Bachata took shape over a period of at least forty years in the bars and brothels of Santo Domingo, without gaining acceptance in his homeland until at least ten years. Young groups like Aventura have an almost direct relation to the original bachata, similar to the relationship of rock and blues with rolleros.
In fact, the parallel between bachata and blues is marked. Although bachata had a unique development, bachateros have played a variety of different rhythms, could be mentioned among them the merengue. Music known as bachata is a variant of bolero. In the Latino culture bolero has traditionally been a romantic music, which it was related to issues like disappointment and lost love. the bachatero, like the blues singer, He sings about the pain and the problem; a difference however is that while blues singer boards a train south and keeps moving, the bachatero goes to the nearest bar and seeks solace in a bottle of rum in a dark corner.
The genre has passed through several phases since José Manuel Calderón recorded what is generally recognized as the first bachata single ("Drunk Love" and "What will happen to my (Sentence)”) in 1961. Actually, long before Calderon, guitar music was the music of choice in disreputable places that became home to bachata. Guitar music like bolero and son were also the staple of the field and with the death of dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 a large number of musicians left the field to dedicate to record their music in the capital. Family dictator had virtually monopolized the music industry in the country, and when he was killed, entrepreneurs began recording the first generation of bachateros. At this point no reference is made to this music as bachata, but rather as "bolero campesino". To posteriormete called Bachata -the word bachata originally denoted an informal group that is usually played guitar music.
When Calderon made recordings, bachata was essentially a type of Bolero, not unlike Puerto Rican music, Ecuadorian, Mexican and Peruvian that inspired. In later years, music began to define itself as a genre, although it was based largely on the pace of bolero, It is easily distinguishable from the same. To understand these changes is very useful gender divide in the following categories, each of which corresponds approximately to a time period:
