Romeo Santos’ new album, ‘Better Late Than Never’, is a project entirely in collaboration with Prince Royce, the bachata exponents revealed in an interview with Billboard magazine published on Tuesday.
The singers, who were born in the Bronx, New York, and are of Dominican origin, have spent years working in secret on their first extensive musical collaboration, they said, having recorded three songs together in the past but never performed them.
Secret album recorded in private is revealed
“We didn’t go to public studios, it was all recorded on vacation: we were in a villa with friends and family, in my studio in my home in New York.”
“We (also) visited his house many times,” noted Romeo Santos, who says the idea came from Prince Royce “seven years ago.”
Santos, 44, known as the ‘king of bachata’, and Royce, 36, as the ‘prince of bachata’, even used the code names Batman and Robin when recording the music and video clips, and their friends and family were unaware of the project, they said.
The album, which translates as ‘Better late than never’ and alludes to their long-awaited union, is composed of 13 tracks in which bachata is king.
But there is “fusion” with genres such as pop, afrobeat or tropical sounds and instruments such as violin and guitar, notes Royce.
Preparing world tour and premiere of unreleased songs
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Romeo Santos and Prince Royce wrote four songs together:
Better late than never’, ‘Mi plan’, ‘Jezabel’ and ‘Loquita por mí’, and the rest are signed by the former with the help of the latter, giving rise to musical proposals that “none of them have offered to the fans before”, said Santos.
Other tracks mentioned in the article are ‘Dardos’, which is R&B influenced; ‘Ay San Miguel’, which is a Dominican ‘palo’, and ‘Menor’, which is a collaboration with Dalvin La Melodía.
Apart from that, they opened the door to a world tour that would be “a journey” through the musical repertoires of both:
“When it happens, God willing, we don’t want it to be a ‘show’ where he comes out, sings his songs, and I sing mine,” said Romeo Santos.
In anticipation of the November 28th release, Santos will host an album listening party on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
With information from EFE
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