Millonario

With an April Fool's Day 2019 post on Instagram promising the immediate drop of a new single with his former bandmates in Aventura, Romeo Santos created a frenzy among his fans. Yet this tease proved an even more elaborate ruse for an entire album’s worth of surprise collaborations—not just with Aventura, but with an astounding assortment of Dominican bachata greats. A veritable love letter to the genre from one of its most celebrated practitioners, Utopía connects the superstar bachatero with those whose own music influenced him and paved the way for his tremendous success. On "Payasos", bachata's self-appointed and enduring prince Frank Reyes holds court with its reigning king, while El Jefe Elvis Martínez adds his signature guitar flourishes on "Millonario". Monchy & Alexandra, Raulin Rodriguez and Luis Vargas, among others, also join Santos as part of an impassioned project that evokes and connects decades worth of Latin music history. He explains the ethos of the album to Apple Music.