"Amor de Mujer" ''(English: "Woman's Love")'' is a song recorded by Mexican singer
Paulina Rubio
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for her debut solo studio
album
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La Chica Dorada
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'' (1992). Released as the album's second
single
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in January 1993 in Mexico, and as the third single on May 29, 1993, in the United States, the song has subsequently appeared on most of Rubio's
compilation album
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s, including ''
Top Hits
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'' (2000) and '' Mio: Paulina Y Sus Éxitos'' (2006). Like most of Rubio's early material, it was written by
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Hot Latin Songs
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chart, peaking at number eight, and was Rubio's second number-one hit in Mexico. The accompanying
music video
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for "Amor de Mujer" was directed by Ángel Flores and filmed in
sepia tone
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and
color image
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. The music video was released in January 1993.
Chart performance
"Amor de Mujer" was released in May 1993 in the United States, and became Rubio's third hit single there and remained on the charts in that summer. It entered the ''
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Hot Latin Songs
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chart at number 35 on the issue dated June 12, 1993. It ultimately reached a peak of number eight on July 17, 1993, and was on the chart for 17 weeks.
The song peaked at number one in El Salvador. In Mexico City, the song peaked at number two. The success of "Amor de Mujer" helped Rubio's debut studio album to obtain a 3× Gold
certification
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in Mexico and consolidate Rubio's image in the rest of Latin America and the US.
Music video
The accompanying
music video
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for "Amor de Mujer" was directed by Ángel Flores, and filmed in the fall of 1992. It begins with takes of Rubio lying on her bed. In a
close-up
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, Rubio sings the song as if she were telling the story of her first love with a bad boy, played by José Cabalán Macari, while wearing smooth hair shines and an iconic
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necklace. Immediately, the video changes to
sepia tone
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with Rubio playing the song and wearing a top, shorts and a leather jacket while the wind moves her blonde hair and she tries to put on her head a leather beret.
Track listing and formats
Mexican CD and cassette single
# "Amor de Mujer" – 3:54
Credits and personnel
* Paulina Rubio –
lead vocals
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*
Gian Pietro Felisatti
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,
writer
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Miguel Blasco
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When he was 16 years old, he joined his first rock band and moved to Ibiza in 1963 through the first years of the musical movement called "beatnic", before the "hippies". On stage, ...
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music director
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, producer
* Remy Causse – arranger
* José Antonio Álvarez Alija –
engineer
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