''Colección'' is a two-disc

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from Puerto Rican singer Roy Brown. It features a collection of Brown's hits and old songs, some of them recorded

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. The album was released under Brown's label Discos Lara-Yarí in 1996.

Background and recording

Roy Brown describes ''Colección'' as a "self-conscious journey" through his career. He says that the album includes songs that are "favorites of the public, others favorites of mine, some forgotten and unknown, others never recorded and that had their chance, even if they never made it to the 'hit parade'".''Colección'' album booklet Most of the songs on Disc one were recorded live. The first eight tracks were recorded during a concert in

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in 1993, while tracks nine to eleven were recorded during a presentation in

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in 1992. "Mister con macana" (Track 12) was recorded for this album on E 1212 Studio in 1994. The remaining songs on the first disc ("Oubao-Moin" and "Encántigo") originated from the albums '' Casi Alba'' and '' Aires Bucaneros''. All of the songs on Disc two were taken from Brown's previous albums as well, like '' Roy Brown III'', '' La Profecía de Urayoán'', '' Nuyol'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. The only exception was the song "Monón" (Track 1), which was recorded on Rubby Haddock Studio in 1996.

Track listing

Disc one

Disc two

Personnel and credits

;Disc one (Tracks 1-8) * Nicky Aponte - musical direction,

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* Tato Santiago -

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and keyboards * Eguie Castrillo -

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* Gonchi Sifre -

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* Toni Asencio - bass * Lissette Gregory -

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* Aidita Encarnación - background vocals, co-lead on "Seattle" * Pablito Rosario - percussion * Pedrito Guzmán -

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* Angel Morales - live sound * Hilton Colón - recording ;Disc one (Tracks 9-11) * Nicky Aponte - keyboards, violin * Tato Santiago - piano * Eguie Castrillo - percussion * Gonchi Sifre - drums * Toni Asencio - bass * Roy Brown - guitars * Cholo Echevarría - live sound * Hilton Colón - recording ;Disc one (Track 12) * Nicky Aponte - keyboards, arrangement * Tato Santiago - piano, background vocals * Gonchi Sifre - drums * Toni Asencio - bass * Freddy Camacho - percussion * Cachete Maldonado - percussion *

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- background vocals * Edwin Colón Zayas - cuatro * Juancito Torres -

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* Angie Machado - second trumpet * Rafi Torres -

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* Angel Torres -

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* Edgardo Sierra - recording ;Disc one (Track 13) * Zoraida Santiago - co-lead vocals * Carl Royce - cuatro * Pablo Nieves - percussion * Harry Rodríguez - bass * Roberto Reverón - drums * Kevin Zambrana - recording ;Disc one (Track 14) * Carl Royce - cuatro * Zoraida Santiago - vocals and percussion * Pablo Nieves - percussion * Jesús Sánchez - recording * Frank Ferrer - production ;Disc two (Track 1) * Tato Santiago - piano, keyboards * Gonchi Sifre - drums * Edgardo Sierra - bass * Freddy Camacho - percussion * Roy Brown - guitars * Iván González - background vocals, collective arrangement * Víctor "Sonny" Hernández - recording, background vocals ;Disc two (Tracks 2, 15) *

Pablo Milanés Pablo Milanés Arias (24 February 1943 – 22 November 2022) was a Cuban guitar player and singer. He was one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola. His music, originating in the Trova, Son and o ...

- co-lead vocals on "Negrito bonito" * Anabell López - co-lead vocals on "Mujer poetisa" * Oriente López - keyboards, arrangement * Oscar Valdés - drums * Ernán López-Nussa - piano * Omar Hernández - bass * Mario Luis Pino - percussion * Fernando Acosta - saxophone * Roberto García - trumpet * Edilio Montero - trumpet and trombone * Jerzy Belc - recording *

Silvio Rodríguez Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement. He is widely considered Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. Known for his int ...

- producer ;Disc two (Track 3) * Rembert Egues -

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, arrangement * Carlos Puerto - bass * Guillermo Barreto - drums * Chucho Valdés - piano * Carlos Emilio - guitars * Oscar Valdés - percussion * Roberto García Valdés - percussion * Eusebio Domínguez - recording ;Disc two (Tracks 5-6) *

Antonio Cabán Vale Antonio Cabán Vale, a.k.a. "El Topo" (born November 22, 1942), is a guitarist, singer and composer of Puerto Rican folkloric themes. He is one of the founders of the "new song" movement (Spanish: ''nueva canción'') of the early 1970s. His danz ...

- co-lead vocals on "Oda a una generación" * Henry Vázquez - guitars and quinto *

Rucco Gandía Radio Pirata was a Rock en Español band from Puerto Rico. Rucco Gandía formed the band in 1994. The band achieved success with hit songs like "El Loco" (The Madman). It was then that Fonovisa signed them up to release their first album. The al ...

- bass * Roy Brown - guitars * Pedrito Enríquez - engineer ;Disc two (Tracks 7-11) * José González - drums and guitars * Miguel Cubano - guitars and cuatro * Harry Torres - bass * Toni Fornaris - percussion * Emiliano Salvador - piano * Manuel Valera -

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* Pedro Téllez - recording * German Pinelli - production ;Disc two (Tracks 13-14) * Carl Royce - cuatro * Pablo Nieves - percussion * Jeff Fuller - bass * Robi Ameen - drums * Steve Sandberg - piano * David Rodríguez - recording ;Disc two (Track 12) * Roy Brown - guitars * Carl Royce - cuatro * Pablo Nieves - percussion ;Disc two (Track 16) * Rucco Gandía - bass and production * Tato Santiago - keyboards * Pedrito Guzmán - cuatro * Eguie Castrillo - percussion * Luis Juliá - guitars * Jimmy Rivera - drums * Roy Brown - guitars * Hilton Colón - recording ;Additional production credits * Digital Recording Services - mastering * Carlos Rivera - digital editing and restoration * David Rodríguez - mastering coordination * Rosalía Ortíz Luquis - cover design * Ricardo Betancourt - album concept and photography * Rafael López - photography * Frida Medin - photography * Paco López - photography * José Rubén Gaztambide - photography

Notes

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