Henry Santos is a Dominican bachata artist born in 1979 in Moca, a city in the Espaillat province of the Cibao region. He first gained widespread recognition as a member of Aventura, the New York-based Dominican group that transformed bachata from a regional Caribbean genre into a global phenomenon in the early 2000s. As one of the group's vocalists and performers, Santos contributed to landmark recordings that introduced bachata to audiences in Europe, Asia, and across the Americas, fundamentally changing the genre's international profile.

After pursuing a solo career, he demonstrated that his appeal extended beyond his work with Aventura, releasing urban bachata and tropical recordings that maintained his connection to Dominican musical roots while embracing contemporary production styles. Santos occupies a significant place in the story of bachata's global rise — one of the artists who carried the genre out of the Dominican Republic and into the mainstream of world popular music.