''Nocturno'' is a

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

from Puerto Rican singer Roy Brown with the band

Radio Pirata 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 ...

. The album was released under Brown's label Discos Lara-Yarí in 1991.Nocturno
on Cancioneros

Background and recording

''Nocturno'' was recorded at Horizon Music Studios in

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. Roy Brown was accompanied by the group

, led by

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 ...

. Gandía himself contributed the song "Mujer sola". Although the backing vocals appears the names of singers Lunna & Ex Menudo Ray Reyes, both of them were substituted by Gilda Gónzalez & Raül Reyes ( Ray’s Brother ) who became Radio Pirata’s Lead Vocalist. The album also features the fifth Roy Brown song based on a poem by

Luis Palés Matos Luis Palés Matos (March 20, 1898 – February 23, 1959) was a Puerto Rican poet who is credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano. He is also credited with writing the screenplay for the "Romance Tropical", the first Puerto ...

, and the third based on a poem by

Clemente Soto Vélez Clemente Soto Vélez (1905 – April 15, 1993) was a Puerto Rican nationalist, poet, journalist and activist who mentored many generations of artists in Puerto Rico and New York City. Upon his death in 1993, he left a rich legacy that contri ...

. There's also a song written by Puerto Rican writer Pedro Cabiya. The song "La borrachera de Charles Baudelaire" is based on the writings of the French poet of the same name.

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