{"id":50818,"date":"2003-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/best-of-contemporary-bachata\/"},"modified":"2003-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"best-of-contemporary-bachata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/05\/13\/best-of-contemporary-bachata\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of contemporary Bachata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Latin Billboard Award winners Monchy and Alexandra will perform live on stage 16-18 May at the National Theater, and again on 23-25 May at the Gran Teatro Regional in Santiago. The popular duo recently received a double win for Tropical\/Salsa Album of the Year for their work on &#8220;Confesiones&#8230; &#8221; and for Tropical\/Salsa Airplay Track by a Duo or Group for &#8220;Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer&#8221; (J&amp;N Sony Discos). The Billboard Awards took place 9 May in Miami.&nbsp;<br \/>\n  The Miami Herald, in its coverage of the awards, said that with the Monchy &amp; Alexandra double-win, ?Bachata had sealed its position as a viable commercial style.?&nbsp;<br \/>\n  The awards, presented at the Miami Arena, honored the most popular albums, songs and performers in Latin music, as determined by sales and radio airplay data published on Billboard&#8217;s weekly charts.&nbsp;<br \/>\n  The twosome will go on stage along with other Bachata greats, such as Yoskar Sarante, who was also nominated by Billboard.<br \/>\n  Click here for more details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Latin Billboard Award winners Monchy and Alexandra will perform live on stage 16-18 May at the National Theater, and again on 23-25 May at the Gran Teatro Regional in Santiago. The popular duo recently received a double win for Tropical\/Salsa Album of the Year for their work on &#8220;Confesiones&#8230; &#8221; and for Tropical\/Salsa Airplay &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/05\/13\/best-of-contemporary-bachata\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[235,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}