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Aventura U.S. Arena Tour
The tour kicks off Nov. 20 at Allstate Arena in Chicago and concludes Jan. 20 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Additional dates include Mark G. Etess Arena in Atlantic City (Nov. 27), Toyota Center in Houston (Dec. 4), The Joint in Las Vegas (Dec. 10), Staples Center in Los Angeles (Dec. 15) and AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami (Dec. 19).
Tickets for all shows go on sale Sept. 12.
This is the band’s first trek in over a year. Last fall Aventura toured the U.S. in support of Enrique Iglesias.
Aventura, which combines the Dominican ballad style of Bachata with R&B, is celebrating the release of the band’s fifth studio album, The Last, which was released this June.
The 18-track album debuted as the fifth best selling album in the country and is still the no.1 best selling Latin album 10 weeks later. The album is also currently the top selling tropical album. The Last includes collaborations with artists such as Ludacris, Wyclef Jean, Akon and Wisin & Yandel.
In a recent article, The New York Times praised Aventura for helping to “make bachata’s romantic tidings and spiky guitar syncopations a staple of Latin radio.”
The piece went on to ask readers, “What is the definitive 21st-century New York musical act?
“A pop critic would probably point to one of the city’s arty indie-rock standard bearers, like TV On the Radio or Animal Collective, or to a rapper like Jay-Z. But pose the question to Latin music fans — or to hit radio listeners in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe — and the answer will likely be Aventura, whose blend of bachata with R&B, hip-hop and big-city attitude has created a swaggering, distinctly New York style.”
Click here for the New York Times article.