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Toby Love

Growing up in The Bronx surrounded by a noisy, vibrant Puerto Rican family, Toby Love spent his childhood watching his father perform salsa music, his mother filling the house with Merengue records and his step-father playing traditional Bachata music from the Dominican Republic. It inspired him to form groups with his cousins, eventually befriending boy band Aventura who lived in his neighbourhood, and they recruited him as a backing singer when he was just 16-years-old. The group merged Latin styles with the R&B, hip-hop and pop culture of the 1990s, and Love featured on albums...