Miami -- For years, Latin music acts typically had two routes to U.S. success – sing in English, or build a Latin fan base with Spanish-language tunes, then cross over to the English-language market.
Now a growing group of artists like Pitbull, Prince Royce and Romeo Santos are making it big by singing in Spanish and English – sometimes in the same song – and winning over both markets simultaneously. And unlike the majority of artists singing in Spanish in the past, these artists are homegrown; they were born in the continental United States and grew up speaking English.
Royce, born Geoffrey Royce Rojas, earned fame last year with a bilingual version of Ben E. King's classic "Stand by Me." The song has been covered by John Lennon, Otis Redding and even U2, but Royce set it to the beat of bachata, the native folk music of the Dominican Republic.
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Now a growing group of artists like Pitbull, Prince Royce and Romeo Santos are making it big by singing in Spanish and English – sometimes in the same song – and winning over both markets simultaneously. And unlike the majority of artists singing in Spanish in the past, these artists are homegrown; they were born in the continental United States and grew up speaking English.
Royce, born Geoffrey Royce Rojas, earned fame last year with a bilingual version of Ben E. King's classic "Stand by Me." The song has been covered by John Lennon, Otis Redding and even U2, but Royce set it to the beat of bachata, the native folk music of the Dominican Republic.
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- 4/26/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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