Romeo Santos, the 'King of Bachata,' announces 2018 'Golden Tour'

Romeo Santos, the ‘King of Bachata,’ announces 2018 ‘Golden Tour’

San Diego Union-Tribune

Nov. 16, 2017 11:15 AM PT

Latin music superstar Romeo Santos has announced the dates for his 2018 Golden Tour.

The tour opens Feb 15 in at New York’s Madison Square Garden and concludes April 6 at Oracle Arena in Oakland,

It includes an April 3 San Diego concert at Viejas Arena, along with tour stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Houston and 10 other cities. All dates and tour stops appear below.

Known as the “King of Bachata” — a guitar-driven Dominican Republic music style that blends Latin, African and Spanish bolero — Santos, 39, rose to fame as a member of the bachata group Aventura.

Since launching his solo career in 2011, he has released four solo albums and had high-profile musical collaborations with Drake, Enrique Iglesias, Usher, Pitbull, Lil Wayne and others.

To date, Santos has won 17 Billboard Latin Music Awards and sold more than 100 million singles and 40 million albums. His 2018 tour is in support of his newest album, “Golden,” which came out earlier this year.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on Nov. 24 at ticketmaster.com and by phone at (800) 745-3000. Online pre-sales begin Nov. 21.

Tickets for Santos’ San Diego concert are prices from $25.50 to $105.50, plus service charges.

Romeo Santos 2018 “Golden Tour

Thu Feb 15 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

Wed Feb 28 Chicago, IL United Center

Fri Mar 02 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

Sat Mar 03 Montreal, QC Bell Centre

Tue Mar 06 Boston, MA Agganis Arena

Sat Mar 10 Fairfax, VA EagleBank Arena

Tue Mar 13 Orlando, FL Amway Center

Thu Mar 15 Miami, FL AmericanAirlines Arena

Sun Mar 18 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena

Tue Mar 20 Houston, TX Toyota Center

Wed Mar 21 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center

Sat Mar 24 El Paso, TX Don Haskins Center

Sun Mar 25 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center

Tue Mar 27 Denver, CO Pepsi Center

Thu Mar 29 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena

Fri Mar 30 Los Angeles, CA The Forum

Tue Apr 03 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena

Fri Apr 06 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena

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San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”