These three artist are part of urban bachata band, a style that mixes traditional Dominican bachata (a guitar-based variation on romantic Cuban bolero) with R&B sensibility and vocalizing. These artists are Dominicans born and raised in New York, fully bilingual and bicultural. With its slower beat and use of acoustic guitars and gentle percussion, urban bachata emulates the romantic lyrics and vocalizing associated with R&B ballads. Urban bachata acts don’t just sing in Spanish; their rhythm is as traditionally Latin as it gets. And yet, the style appeals to a broad swath of young, U.S.-born Latinos.
I liked the expression of the singers in the photo and the perspective was perfect for the composition. The dark walls and clear floor of the newspaper room offered a colorful contrast very appropriate for the background. The text box was placed floating in the middle of the background and the empty space around was filled with the headline and subhead. This created a balance between the weight of the headline at the left and the singers on the right. The subhead on the top links those two elements giving an inverted u composition t0 the page that frames the content. The reader eyes follow the headline text clockwise until it reaches the singers.