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Frío Frío
Frio Frio or Frio, Frio (English: Cold, Cold) is the lead single of the sixth studio album ''Areito'' by Dominican superstar '' Juan Luis Guerra''. The song is considered to be a bachata by many, however it is actually a bolero. It was written based on a poem by Federico García Lorca and was released in August 1991. The track received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for Tropical Salsa Song of the Year at the 4th Lo Nuestro Awards. Frio Frio was a success peaking at number 4 on Billboard Hot Latin Tracks and at the Top 5 airplay in Panama and Uruguay. The track was included on Guerra's greatest hits album ''Grandes Éxitos Juan Luis Guerra y 440 and Coleccion Romantica (2001).'' In 2013, a live version of the song with Romeo Santos was released as lead single of Guerra's live album A Son de Guerra ''A Son de Guerra'' (English: to the beat of war) is the 11th studio album recorded by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, It was released by Capitol Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born June 7, 1957) is a Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. He has sold 30 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards including 23 Latin Grammy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and one Latin Billboard Music Award. Guerra won 3 Latin Grammy Awards in 2010, including Album of the Year. In 2012, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year. Guerra is one of the most internationally recognized Latin artists of recent decades. His popular style of merengue and Latin fusion has garnered him considerable success throughout Latin America. He is also credited for popularizing bachata music on a global level and is often associated with the genre, although his distinct style of bachata features a more traditional bolero rhythm and aesthetic mixed with bossa-nova influenced melodies and harmony in some of his songs. He does not limit him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Areíto (album)
''Areíto'' is the sixth album by Juan Luis Guerra with his band 440, released on 8 December 1992, by Karem Records. The album, meant to be a tribute to the indigenous tribes of the Dominican Republic, is named after a dance that the aboriginal inhabitants of the Greater Antilles (Taínos) accompanied with songs during their festivals and religious rites. The album contains twelve tracks including "Cuando te Beso", interpret by Santo Domingo Philharmonic Orchestra. Congolese musician Diblo Dibala played guitar on the song " El Costo de la Vida", which was a Spanish cover of his own soukous song "Kimia Eve", while the last track on the album, "Naboria daca, mayanimacaná", is sung in Arawak, the language of the Taíno people. ''Areíto'' was originally set to be released in early April 1992, but was first delayed to the end of October 1992 and was finally released on 8 December 1992. According to Guerra himself, ''Areíto'' did not serve as a follow-up to his previous album ''Bach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachata (music)
Bachata is a genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century. It is a fusion of southwestern European influences, mainly Spanish guitar music, with indigenous Taino and Sub Saharan African musical elements, representative of the cultural diversity of the Dominican population. The first recorded compositions of bachata was done by José Manuel Calderón in 1962 ("Borracho de amor") from the Dominican Republic. Bachata originates from bolero and son (and later, from the mid-1980s, merengue). The original term used to name the genre was ''amargue'' ("bitterness", "bitter music" or "blues music"), until the mood-neutral term ''bachata'' became popular. The form of dance, bachata, also developed with the music.Pacini Hernandez, Deborah"Brief history of Bachata" ''Bachata, A social history of a Dominican popular music'', 1995, Temple University Press. Retrieved on December 4, 2008 Bachata arose in the poor and working class areas of the country. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachata Rosa (Song)
"Bachata Rosa" (English: Rose Bachata) is a song by Dominican Republic singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra released in 1991 and served as the lead seventh and final from his fifth studio album '' Bachata Rosa'' (1990). Along with ''Estrellitas y Duendes'' and ''Como Abeja Al Panal'', is one of Guerra's first international hits and helped to contribute to the bachata sophistication and have recognition in Latin America and Europe. The track was a commercial success, toping the airplay charts in Mexico and was the fourth single of the album to peak insade of the top 10 at the US Hot Latin Tracks. A Portuguese version of the track was released in 1992 titled Romance Rosa and peaked at number 7 on the Brazilian Airplay Charts. The song "Bachata Rosa" served as the closing theme for the Brazilian TV novel "De Cuerpo y Alma"(1992). The track was included on Guerra's greatest hits album ''Grandes Éxitos Juan Luis Guerra y 440 ''Grandes Éxitos de Juan Luis Guerra y 440'' or simply ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Señales De Humo
Señales de Humo (English: smoke signals) is the second single of Juan Luis Guerra sixth studio album Areito (1992). The track is divided in two parts: The first part is a bachata and the second one the rhythm transformed to Mambo with elements of son and salsa. The title made reference of the communication that the indigenous use between vast and unpopulated areas and that are made by bonfires. The song met with critical acclaim and won Song of The Year at the 1994`s BMI Latin Awards. The track was a great success in Latin America and Billboard US Latin charts. The track was included on Guerra`s compilation album ''Colección Romantica ''Colección Romántica'' is the compilation album of Dominican songwriter and musician Juan Luis Guerra and 4.40. It was released in November 21, 2000 and February 6, 2001 in the United States by Karen Records.It is a dual album compilation incl ... (2001).'' Charts References {{Juan Luis Guerra 1992 songs Juan Luis Guerra songs Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Santos
Anthony "Romeo" Santos (born July 21, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actor who is best known as the frontman and lead vocalist of the bachata group Aventura. In 2002, the song " Obsesión" reached number one in Italy for 16 consecutive weeks. He released several albums with Aventura before the group broke up. Since then, Santos has embarked on a solo career which has spawned seven number one songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart and seventeen number ones on the Tropical Songs chart. Over his career, he sold over 40 million albums and over 100 million singles. Early life Santos was born in 1981 in the Bronx, New York City to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother. He had a humble upbringing, with his father, who worked in construction, under-paid but earning enough for his family with his mother staying at home taking care of them. Santos began his career by singing in a church choir at a young age. Romeo was exposed to Latin genres of music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premio Lo Nuestro 1992
The 4th Lo Nuestro Awards ceremony, presented by Univision honoring the best Latin music of 1991 and 1992 took place on May 14, 1992, at a live presentation held at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ceremony was broadcast in the United States and Latin America by Univision. During the ceremony, nineteen categories were presented. Winners were announced at the live event and included Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel receiving four competitive awards. Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra, Mexican group Pandora, and American band La Mafia earned two accolades each. Background In 1989, the Lo Nuestro Awards were established by Univision, to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on ''Billboard'' Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandes Éxitos Juan Luis Guerra Y 440
''Grandes Éxitos de Juan Luis Guerra y 440'' or simply ''Grandes Éxitos'' is a compilation album of Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, and his band 440 released in July 1995 by Karem Records. It contained Guerra's fifteen biggest hits from 1988 to 1994 on the original version and from the albums ''Mudanza y Acarreo'' ''(1985) to Fogarate! (1994)'' on the international versions. The compilation receive positive reviews by the critics. Among the tracks are two songs from the controversial album '' Áreito'' that was said to have anti-capitalist tendencies. Although Guerra decieded to quit recording protest songs, he included these two tracks, of which '' El costo de la vida'' was his first number-one hit in the Hot Latin Tracks. On September 17, 1996, the album was re-released to include the two tracks "''Si tu te vas''" (Guerra first merengue song) and "Señorita", a track that he composed for the movie "My Family". The album was commercial success and reached the Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colección Romantica
''Colección Romántica'' is the compilation album of Dominican songwriter and musician Juan Luis Guerra and 4.40. It was released in November 21, 2000 and February 6, 2001 in the United States by Karen Records.It is a dual album compilation including 20 of the group's classic songs remastered and re-recorded as ballads. The album also contained unaltered original versions of their softer songs, like acoustic ballads or bachatas. It would become Guerra's last album released under the Dominican independent music label Karen Records, as his later albums would be released under Vene Music and subsequently under EMI music and Capitol Latin. The album includes new versions of the tracks ("Tu"; "Ay Mujer" and "Razones") and live version of the song "'' Estrellitas y Duendes''" recorded at La Plaza de Las Ventas in Madrid in 1992.Also it include, the orchestrations mesmerizing on such one-of-a-kind hits as "Bachata rosa," "Burbujas de amor, " and "Paimolita blanca." The tracks; Tu and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Son De Guerra Tour (album)
''A Son de Guerra Tour'', stylized ''Asondeguerra Tour'', is a live album from Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra. It was recorded during the A Son de Guerra World Tour at Santo Domingo in front of 42,000 audience. Reception Thom Jurek of AllMusic gave the album a positive review and wrote "This is a stellar live offering, impeccably performed and recorded" ''A Son de Guerra Tour'' debuted and peaked at number 80 on the Billboard 200. It also peaked and debuted at number one in the ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums and Tropical Albums charts. ''A Son de Guerra Tour'' won the Contemporary Tropical Album in 2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact .... Track listing Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Sales and certifications References {{Juan L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Latin Songs
The ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs (formerly Hot Latin Tracks and Hot Latin 50) is a record chart in the United States for Latin songs, published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. Since October 2012, chart rankings are based on digital sales, radio airplay, and online streaming, and only predominantly Spanish language songs are allowed to rank. The chart was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986, and was originally based on airplay on Latin music radio stations. Songs on the chart were not necessarily in Spanish language, since a few songs in English and Portuguese language have also charted. The first number one song of the Hot Latin Songs chart was "La Guirnalda" by Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986. As of the issue for the week ending on December 24, 2022, the chart has had 452 different number one hits, while 181 artists have reached number one (as a lead or a featured act). The current number one song is "Tití Me Preguntó" by Bad Bunny. History On September 6, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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