"Desnuda" (English: "Naked") is a song written and performed by Guatemalan singer-songwriter

Ricardo Arjona Edgar Ricardo Arjona Algadeoro (born 19 January 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona (), is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter. Arjona is one of the most successful and best-selling Latin American artists of all time, with more than 80 million records so ...

for his seventh studio album, ''

Sin Daños a Terceros ''Sin Daños a Terceros'' is the seventh studio album released on June 2, 1998, by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona. Reception The AllMusic review by Terry Jenkins awarded the album 4 stars stating "Sin Daños a Terceros continues R ...

'' (1998). It was released as a single in 1999. It became his first number-one song on both the ''Billboard''

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and

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charts in the United States. It spent 12 weeks at number one on the latter chart, tying with his other song "

El Problema "El Problema" ("The Problem") is a Latin pop song written, produced and performed by Guatemalan Grammy Award winner singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona. It was released as the lead single from his ninth studio album, '' Santo Pecado'' (2002). It is ...

". The song would later become the theme song for the Mexican telenovela ''

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'' (1999). It was recognized as one of the best-performing Latin pop songs of 2000 by

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. Mario Tarradell of the ''Dallas Morning Morning News'' described it as one of the album's "eclectic, provocative cuts". "Desnuda" was nominated in the category of Pop Song of the Year at the

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, but lost to "

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" by

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. In 2007, Arjona revealed the origins of the song. The

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was directed by Benny Corral. Although a friend of Arjona, Costa Rican model Vica Andrade declined to appear on the music video.

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