Celeste Lyrics – Romeo Santos & Prince Royce

Romeo Santos and Prince Royce hand over their hearts on Celeste, the tender mid-album gem from their long-awaited joint project Better Late Than Never, which landed yesterday, November 28, 2025, through Sony Music Latin, and it floats in like a quiet promise under the stars, that kind of bachata that makes you close your eyes and lean into the one you love.

These two have been circling each other for years, both Bronx kids with Dominican blood who turned bachata into a global whisper, but they’ve never shared a full stage like this. Celeste captures that first real sync: Prince Royce opens with a gentle verse about celebrating her sky-like beauty, his voice soft and yearning like in his early days, before Santos layers in the pre-chorus with lines about her kiss being the ultimate calm. It’s classic bachata at its core—nylon strings plucking slow, güira scraping like a heartbeat, bongos adding just enough warmth—but they weave in subtle modern touches, like faint R&B keys that give it a dreamy haze.

The chorus seals it, both trading lines about staying in her essence forever, dropping to their knees in awe, and that playful post-chorus plea to protect the planet because she’s here. It’s pure romance, no drama, just the honor of calling her yours, clocking in around four minutes that feel eternal.

This sits as track seven on Better Late Than Never’s 13-song run, right in the sweet spot after the opener’s slow build and before some bolder swings. The album’s a love letter to the genre they shaped—Santos handling most of the production, blending straight bachata with R&B dips on Dardos, Afrobeat edges on Jezabel, and even palo nods on Ay! San Miguel. They co-wrote four tracks together, like the title cut born on a St. Barts trip, and brought in rising talent Dalvin La Melodía for Menor without him even knowing Royce was in the mix. It’s about 50 minutes of that push-pull between tradition and fresh air, all orbiting themes of late-blooming love and unbreakable bonds.

Santos and Royce are both in this reflective groove, him at 44 after years of solo reinvention since Aventura, her at 36 fresh off Eterno’s pop experiments. Teaming up feels like passing the crown while grabbing it tighter, especially after scrapped sessions from 2017 that taught them to wait for the real thing. They kept it secret by working in home studios and villas, no leaks, just pure craft—proof that sometimes the best stories take time to unfold.

X is full of fans posting dedications already, clips of the lyric video pulling in those “amada mía” echoes, and threads calling Celeste the one to loop on repeat while the rest of the album simmers.

Dive into the Celeste lyrics below and unpack its raw narrative. Don’t miss other Better Late Than Never tracks for more of Romeo Santos and Prince Royce’s timeless pull.