''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 Jayuya 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'', '' Árboles'', and '' Balada de Otro Tiempo''. 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, keyboards,

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* Tato Santiago -

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and keyboards * Eguie Castrillo -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Gonchi Sifre -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* Toni Asencio -

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* Lissette Gregory -

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

cuatro Cuatro, Spanish (and other Romance languages) for the 4, number 4, may refer to: * Cuatro (instrument), a family of Latin American string instruments, including: ** Cuatro (Venezuela) ** Puerto Rican cuatro * Cuatro (TV channel), a Spanish free-to ...

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

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

* Angie Machado - second trumpet * Rafi Torres -

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

* 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 ...

- 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 as Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. Known for his ...

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

vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

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