''El Alma al Aire'' (The Soul to Air) is the sixth studio album recorded by Spanish singer-songwriter

Alejandro Sanz Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro, better known as Alejandro Sanz (; born 18 December 1968), is a Spanish musician, singer and composer. Sanz has won 22 Latin Grammy Awards and four Grammy Awards. He has received the Latin Grammy for Latin Grammy Awar ...

, It was released by

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on September 26, 2000 (see

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). It is one of his more suggestive and emotive works. It beat all the records of sale of the Spanish market on having reached the 1,000,000 copies in the first week."Alejandro Sanz – Por Derecho – Los Secretos del Alma"
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Track listing

# Cuando Nadie Me Ve – 5:07 # Hay Un Universo de Pequeñas Cosas – 5:22 #

Quisiera Ser "Quisiera Ser" (I Would Like to Be) is a song by Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz from Sanz's sixth studio album '' El Alma al Aire''. It was released as a single on October 20, 2000, by WEA Latina. The song is included on an EP consisti ...

– 5:30 # Para Que Me Quieras – 4:29 # Llega, Llegó Soledad – 4:38 # El Alma al Aire – 5:58 # Me Iré – 5:40 # Hicimos Un Trato – 4:37 # Tiene Que Ser Pecado – 5:05 # Silencio – 4:37 (6:35–8:22 – hidden track: ''Desde mis Centros'')

Chart performance

Album

Singles

Sales and certifications

Personnel

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– Spanish guitar in "Quisiera Ser" and "El Alma al Aire" * Gennady Aronin – Violin * Enrique Badulescu – Photography * Antonio Baglio – Mastering * Tim Barnes –

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* Maurizio Biancani – Mixing * Renato Cantele –

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, mixing * Huifang Chen – Violin * Janet Clippard – Bass * Gustavo Correa – Violin * Montse Cortés –

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in "Quisiera Ser" and "El Alma al Aire" * John DiPuccio – Violin * Paquito Echevarría – Piano tumbao in "El Alma al Aire" * Joan Faigen – Violin * Scott Flavin – Violin * Chris Glansdorp – Cello * Alfredo Golino – Drums * Jorge González – Assistant

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* Luca Jurman – Arranger,

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* Mei Mei Luo – Violin * Roberto Maccagno –

, technical coordinator * Charo Manzano –

in "Quisiera Ser" and "El Alma al Aire" *

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–

* José Antonio Molina – Arranger, orchestra director * Susan Moyer – Cello * Alfredo Oliva – Violin * Alfredo Paixao – Bass,

* Wendy Pedersen –

* Lulo Pérez – Arranger, trumpet * Dave Poler – Assistant

* Rita Quintero –

* Keith Robinson – Cello * Emanuele Ruffinengo – Arranger, concept, record producer * Alejandro Sanz – Vocals,

, arranger, concept * Rafa Sañudo – Art direction, design * Debra Spring –

* Ramiro Terán –

* Christine Tramontano – Assistant

* Ludovico Vagnone – Acoustic guitar, electric guitar * Bruce Wethey – Violin * Bogumila Zgraja – Violin

Awards

Special edition

''El Alma al Aire: Edición Especial'' is the 2001 re-release of the album ''El Alma al Aire'' containing 2 CDs. The CD 1 is the same as the original album and the CD 2 contains 5 new tracks (his duets with the Irish group

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, a duet with the Mexican singer

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and a remix of the song "Tiene Que Ser Pecado").

Track listing

CD 1

# Cuando Nadie Me Ve – 5:07 # Hay un Universo de Pequeñas Cosas – 5:22 #

– 5:30 # Para Que Me Quieras – 4:29 # Llega, Llegó Soledad – 4:37 # El Alma al Aire – 5:58 # Me Iré – 5:40 # Hicimos un Trato – 4:37 # Tiene Que Ser Pecado – 5:05 # Silencio – 8:22 ''(contains the hidden track ''"Desde mis centros"'')''

CD 2

* 11 Me Iré (The Hardest Day) con

– 4:26 * 12 Una Noche con

– 4:44 * 13 Adoro con

– 4:17 * 14 Tiene Que Ser Pecado (alternative mix) – 5:22 * 15 The Hardest Day con

– 4:38

Re-release

''El Alma al Aire (Edición 2006)'' is the 2006 re-release of the album ''El Alma al Aire'' containing a CD and DVD. The CD contains 13 tracks and the DVD contains 14 videos.

Track listing

CD

# Cuando Nadie Me Ve – 5:07 # Hay un Universo de Pequeñas Cosas – 5:22 #

– 5:30 # Para Que Me Quieras – 4:29 # Llega, Llegó Soledad – 4:37 # El Alma al Aire – 5:58 # Me Iré – 5:40 # Hicimos un Trato – 4:37 # Tiene Que Ser Pecado – 5:05 # Silencio – 8:22 (contains the hidden track "Desde Mis Centros") # Cuando Nadie Me Ve (demo) – 5:01 # El Alma al Aire (demo) – 5:39 # Una Noche con

– 8:12

DVD

# Cuando Nadie Me Ve (Video) #

(Video) # El Alma al Aire (Video) # Llega, Llegó Soledad (Video) # Una Noche con

(Video) # The Hardest Day con

(Video) # Tiene Que Ser Pecado (2001 Concert at

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) # Llega, Llegó Soledad (2001 Concert at

) # Cuando Nadie Me Ve (2001 Concert at

) # Me Iré (2001 Concert at

) # Hay un Universo de Pequeñas Cosas (2001 Concert at

) # El Alma al Aire (2001 Concert at

) # Quisiera Ser (2001 Concert at

) # EPK

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alma al aire 2000 albums Alejandro Sanz albums Latin Grammy Award winners for Album of the Year Warner Music Latina albums Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album

Track listing

Chart performance

Album

Singles

Sales and certifications

Personnel

Awards

Special edition

Track listing

CD 1

CD 2

Re-release

Track listing

CD

DVD

See also

References