''Poquita Ropa'' ( en, Few Clothes) is the twelfth studio album 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 ...
. It was released on August 24, 2010 through
Warner Music
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. It was recorded in
Mexico City
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,
New York City
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, and
Los Angeles
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and was produced by Lee Levin and Dan Warner under their production name Los Gringo, with additional works from
Matt Rollings
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Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all country. Matt won the 'Best Traditional Pop Voca ...
and
Brian Lang
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.
Markedly different in style from his previous albums, ''Poquita Ropa'' was produced using as few musical instruments as possible. Arjona's goal was to produce the songs "almost as they were born"; he achieved this by using nonexistent sounds to make the songs sound more acoustic. Arjona achieved a production style that made the songs sound like
a cappella
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performances, and he said that "music and women look better with little clothes."
The album was critically and commercially successful, became his third number one album on the
''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums chart, and also topped the charts in
Argentina
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and
Mexico
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. It was certified Platinum in Argentina and Mexico, and was certified Gold in Chile, Colombia and the United States. The album was nominated at the
53rd Grammy Awards
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for
Best Latin Pop Album
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. ''Poquita Ropa'' was given generally positive reviews; Jason Birchmeier of
Allmusic
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considered the album a "stripped-down acoustic effort" and said that it was "impressive".
''Poquita Ropa'' spawned three singles. "
Puente Puente, a word meaning ''bridge'' in Spanish language, may refer to:
People
* Puente (surname)
Places
*La Puente, California, USA
*Puente Alto, city and commune of Chile
*Puente de Ixtla, city in Mexico
*Puente Genil, village in the Spanish provin ...
", a song with Cuban influences, was released as the
lead single
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Release s ...
from the album and peaked at number 36 on the ''Billboard''
Latin Pop Songs
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chart. The other two singles released were "
Vida
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Geography
* Vida (Gradačac), village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, Antarctica
* U.S. settled places:
** Vida, Montana
** Vida, Oregon
** Vida, Missour ...
" and "
Marta
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* Marta (given name), a feminine given name
* Märta, a feminine given name
* Marta (surname)
:István Márta composer
* Marta (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian professional footballer
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* Marta (river), an ...
", both of which failed to appear on the charts. Instead of promoting the album with a worldwide tour, Arjona produced an eponymous film which was broadcast on
HBO
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and
A&E. It was directed by Joaquín Cambre, and features Mexican
telenovela
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actress
Edith González
Edith González Fuentes (; 10 December 1964 – 13 June 2019) was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for working on multiple telenovelas produced by three different multimedia companies, which included Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo.
G ...
.
Composition
With ''Poquita Ropa'', Arjona wanted to drastically change his musical style. He tried to use as few instruments as possible, resulting in a production that sounds like a cappella performances. Arjona said about the album, "music and women look better with little clothes",
["Arjona desnuda sus canciones en "Poquita ropa"]
(in Spanish). Union Radio. Retrieved on 23 March 2012. and that "they
he songs
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are like women; they get things up and are so concerned about this that they forget that the less clothes, more beauty. The songs are often overwhelmed by ourselves, because we saturate them with arrangements looking to exalt their qualities and we end up hiding them."
[
Arjona produced the album with the assistance of Dan Warner, who has worked with ]Shakira
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, Celine Dion
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and Christina Aguilera
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.["Ricardo Arjona tiende hoy su Puente"]
. ''La Nación
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Its motto is: "''La Nac ...
''. Retrieved on 28 March 2012. Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic
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commented that ''Poquita Ropa'' "finds Arjona at his most naked, backed by spare arrangements of acoustic guitar, piano, and Hammond B-3 along with occasional touches of strings, woodwinds, and chorus vocals." ''Poquita Ropa'' was the first album that Arjona recorded without producer Tommy Torres
Tomas Torres Carrasquillo (; born November 25, 1971), known professionally as Tommy Torres (), is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and record producer.(4 April 2008)Latin songwriter/producer releases solo disc ''Reuters'' Named "#1 Hot Latin Tr ...
, whose last production was ''5to Piso
''5to Piso'' (Quinto Piso, 5th Floor) is the eleventh studio album by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, released on 18 November 2008. Produced by Arjona, Jorge Amaro, Dan Warner, Lee Levin, Fernando de Santiago and Puerto Rican singer- ...
'' (2008). The album is similar in style to Arjona's work on ''Galería Caribe
''Galería Caribe'' (English: ''Caribbean Gallery'') is the eighth studio album recorded by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, It was released by Sony Music México on August 29, 2000 (see 2000 in music). and became his first number-o ...
'' (2000).
"Puente Puente, a word meaning ''bridge'' in Spanish language, may refer to:
People
* Puente (surname)
Places
*La Puente, California, USA
*Puente Alto, city and commune of Chile
*Puente de Ixtla, city in Mexico
*Puente Genil, village in the Spanish provin ...
", the lead single
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Release s ...
, is eight minutes and thirty seconds long and is divided into three parts. The first part is an a cappella song with a piano accompaniment. The second part is a ballad with Caribbean
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and Latin
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sounds, with some salsa
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* Salsa music, a popular style of Latin American music
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and Cuban
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influences. The third is a mixture of salsa and merengue, with Cuban influences. Mónica Maristain from newspaper ''La Nación
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Its motto is: "''La Nac ...
'' compared it with "Habana", a 1999 song by Fito Páez
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Biography
Early career
Paez was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province; ...
.[Maristain, Mónica (19 July 2010)]
"Ricardo Arjona se pone tropical en su nuevo disco"
(in Spanish). La Nación
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal '' Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argentina.
Its motto is: "''La Nac ...
. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.
Lyrical content
When asked about "Puente"'s main theme, Arjona commented, "Although many believe is a threshed topic, it isn't for a Cuban, be it on the island or Florida. The status of this dispute hasn't changed since 1959 and I've never seen something as disgusting as a rivalry between people occasioned from politics. Chávez can fight with Uribe, Fidel with Obama, but what has this to do with two third-generation cousins that inherit an enmity for a politic matter .["Arjona canta ahora con poquita ropa"](_blank)
(in Spanish). ''El Colombiano ''El Colombiano'' (''The Colombian'') is the leading newspaper in Antioquia Department in Colombia whose headquarters are located in Medellín.
The first edition of this newspaper was published on February 6, 1912, which only had one page, 13 adve ...
''. Retrieved on 23 March 2012. In the song, Arjona sings: "Habana / siempre en las mitades, tan mitad española, tan mitad africana / saben bien las olas que en cada ventana siempre hay un testigo / Habana." He also said that "Puente" was the only song that was "not allowed to undress".["“Poquita ropa” es el disco que siempre quiso hacer: Arjona"](_blank)
(in Spanish). El Periódico USA. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.
"Vida
Vida means “life” in Spanish and Portuguese. It may refer to:
Geography
* Vida (Gradačac), village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, Antarctica
* U.S. settled places:
** Vida, Montana
** Vida, Oregon
** Vida, Missour ...
", the second single, is considered by Arjona to be an autobiographical song. He said that it "contains a good dose of the life of my old man", as a reference to his father, Don Ricardo Arjona, who died in 2010.["Arjona triunfa con "Vida", su nuevo sencillo"](_blank)
(in Spanish). '' Prensa Libre''. Retrieved on April 19, 2012. In an interview, music video director Joaquín Cambre said that, "'Vida' is a sweet song, exciting and bitter nonetheless. I tried to represent that mix of feelings crafting an ambience of hope inside of a story that inevitably has a tragic end. Ricardo Arjona plays the song while listening to the story playing on an old disc." Arjona said that "Marta
Marta may refer to:
People
* Marta (given name), a feminine given name
* Märta, a feminine given name
* Marta (surname)
:István Márta composer
* Marta (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian professional footballer
Places
* Marta (river), an ...
" is "one of those songs with brushworks related to something that happened, put on the magnifying glass of the author."[ When asked if "Escribir Una Canción" could be considered a guide for songwriters, he stated that "there are no guides to write songs. If any, songwriters would stop writing songs and start writing guides."][
Arjona also said that "Mi País" was "the story of anybody who left their land and searched for life in another place, with all that huge dose of nostalgia and memory those moments carries.", and that he wrote the song when he left Guatemala.][ "Que Voy A Hacer Conmigo" was originally included as a rock song on his 1991 album '' Del Otro Lado del Sol'', but the lyrics were slightly changed on the new version. Arjona stated that it was a difficult process to leave the songs "almost as they were born", and that he had to convince the people who worked on the album that "it was the way the songs were to be", without adding any sounds.]
Release and promotion
''Poquita Ropa'' was released first in Spain on 6 August 2010, and was made available in the United States, Latin America, and the rest of Europe on 15 August 2010. The compact disc version of the album was released in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America on 24 August 2010. A deluxe edition was released on iTunes, and contained the track "Estas Ganas de Llorar".
Singles
"Puente", the lead single from the album, was released on 9 August 2010. The song is a political-charged anthem to Havana, the relationship between Cuba and the United States, the international economic blockade against Cuba, and Cuban emigration to Florida. The song reached number 36 on the ''Billboard
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'' Latin Pop Songs
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chart. "Puente" is one of Arjona's least successful lead singles. The music video was filmed in Mexico and Argentina. The second single, "Vida", was released on 7 December 2010. Its music video was filmed in Mexico and was directed by Argentinian filmmaker Joaquín Cambre. The third and last single from the album was "Marta", released on 29 March 2011. It became the second consecutive single from ''Poquita Ropa'' to fail to chart in the United States. The accompanying music video featured Mexican telenovela
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actress Edith González
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G ...
.
Film
On 12 February 2011, HBO premiered the film ''Poquita Ropa – Una Historia Apasionada'',["Ricardo Arjona en cortometraje"](_blank)
(in Spanish). Diario CoLatino (Sociedad Cooperativa de Empleados de Diario Latino de R.L.). Retrieved on 11 May 2012. a compilation of the music videos for all of the songs on the album, interlaced into one story and with a duration of 67 minutes. It was directed by Joaquín Cambre, and co-starred Arjona, González, Edgar Vivar, Daniel Arenas, Mimi Morales, and Kenny.["Arjona y Edith González comparten escenario"](_blank)
(in Spanish). Notisistema. Retrieved on April 19, 2012. ''Poquita Ropa – Una Historia Apasionada'' was produced in Argentina and Mexico.["A&E ofrece programación especial de Ricardo Arjona"](_blank)
(in Spanish). ''El Nacional''. Retrieved on 11 May 2012. Jesús Grovas, HBO's corporate communication manager for Mexico and Central America said that it was "a pleasure to have on screen the music of a songwriter like Ricardo Arjona, which is warranty of quality". The film was later broadcast by A&E.["Ricardo Arjona y Edith González estrenan video clip"](_blank)
(in Spanish). Terra Mexico. Retrieved on April 19, 2012.
Reception
Commercial performance
In the United States, ''Poquita Ropa'' sold over nine thousand copies in its first week, debuting at number one the ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums chart, on the week ending 11 September 2010, becoming Arjona's third studio album to reach number one on that chart, following ''Galería Caribe
''Galería Caribe'' (English: ''Caribbean Gallery'') is the eighth studio album recorded by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, It was released by Sony Music México on August 29, 2000 (see 2000 in music). and became his first number-o ...
'' (2000) and ''5to Piso
''5to Piso'' (Quinto Piso, 5th Floor) is the eleventh studio album by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, released on 18 November 2008. Produced by Arjona, Jorge Amaro, Dan Warner, Lee Levin, Fernando de Santiago and Puerto Rican singer- ...
'' (2008). The following week, it fell to number two as Enrique Iglesias
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' ''Euphoria
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'' regained the top position. ''Poquita Ropa'' also debuted at number one on the Latin Pop Albums
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chart on the week ending 11 September 2010. It became Arjona's fourth album to reach number one, after ''Galería Caribe'', ''5to Piso'' and ''Quién Dijo Ayer
''Quién Dijo Ayer'' (English: ''Who Said Yesterday'') is a compilation album released by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona on 21 August 2007. Dan Warner and Lee Levin co-produced the album with Arjona and Puerto Rican singer-songwrite ...
'' (2007). ''Poquita Ropa'' also debuted at number 43 on the ''Billboard'' 200, becoming his highest entry on that chart. The album was also commercially successful outside the United States. In Mexico, ''Poquita Ropa'' debuted at number 29, and jumped to number one in its second week.["Mexican Charts"](_blank)
. Mexican Charts (Hung Medien). Retrieved on 10 May 2012. It remained at number one for two consecutive weeks, before dropping to number five. The album was the 31st best-selling album of 2010 in Mexico. ''Poquita Ropa'' also peaked at number one in Argentina, and at number two in Chile.[ On the 2010 year-end chart, ''Poquita Ropa'' was the 43rd best-selling album on the Latin Albums chart,] and the 12th best-selling album on the Latin Pop Albums chart.
''Poquita Ropa'' was certified Platinum
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by the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers
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(CAPIF), denoting 40,000 copies sold.["Debuta Ricardo Arjona en listas de ventas de EU"](_blank)
(in Spanish). ''El Informador'' (Mexico). Retrieved on 10 May 2012. It was also certified Platinum by the Mexican Association of Producers of Phonograms and Videograms
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(AMPROFON), denoting 60,000 copies sold.["Mexican album certifications – Ricardo Arjona – Poquita Ropa"](_blank)
(in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas
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. In the United States, ''Poquita Ropa'' was certified Gold (Latin) by the Recording Industry Association of America
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(RIAA), denoting 50,000 copies shipped. It was certified Gold in Chile, denoting sales of 5,000 copies, and in Colombia, denoting sales of 10,000 copies.
Critical response
Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic gave the album a positive review, and wrote that it was a "stripped-down acoustic effort", and considered it "impressive". An editor from ''El Carabobeño'' said that ''Poquita Ropa'' was "an album of ghetto and concept, with flawless production and carried out with the right amount of instruments."
Track listing
Following, the track list of ''Poquita Ropa'' as is shown in Allmusic.
All songs written and composed by Ricardo Arjona.[
;iTunes Bonus Track
]
Notes
*"Que Voy A Hacer Conmigo", with slightly different lyrics, appeared on Arjona's 1991 album '' Del Otro Lado del Sol''.
Personnel
The credits are taken from the iTunes exclusive digital booklet.[''Poquita Ropa'' (Digital booklet). ]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 ...
. Warner Music Mexico: a division of the Warner Music Group
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. 2010. 825646802180.
"Vida"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Doug Emery — piano, piano arrangements
*Lee Levin — percussion
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, drums
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*Briang Lang — bass
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — chorus, background vocals
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*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
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*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Marta"
*Ricardo Arjona
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— Composer, chorus
*Matt Rollings — piano
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, piano arrangements, Hammond B-3
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*Doug Emery — Hammond B-3
*Lee Levin — percussion, drums
*Briang Lang — bass
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — chorus, background vocals
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Aleluya"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner - guitar
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s, mandoline
file:Cooking Mandolin with Carrot.jpg, A mandoline used for slicing a carrot
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*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Jonathan Yudkin — violin
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*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — chorus, background vocals
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Soledad Enamorada"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars
*Victor Patrón — piano, piano arrangements
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Que Voy A Hacer Conmigo"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Pete Wallace — Hammond B-3
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Escribir Una Canción"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Usted"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Pete Wallace — Hammond B-3
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Puente" (Acoustic)
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars, mandoline
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Pete Wallace — Hammond B-3, melody
*Lee Levin — percussion, drums
*Briang Lang — bass
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Todo Estará Bién"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Jonathan Yudkin — cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...
, mandoline
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Mi País"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Doug Emery — Hammond B-3
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Por Tanto Amarte"
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
* Carlos Cabral Jr. — guitars
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Fernando Acosta — clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound.
Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
"Puente" (Caribe)
*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 ...
— Composer, chorus
*Dan Warner — guitars
*Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
*Lee Levin — percussion
*Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
*Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
*Efraín Dávila — arrangements, musical production, acoustic piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
, keyboard
Keyboard may refer to:
Text input
* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Musi ...
s, programming
*José Tabares — bass
*Luisito Quintero — percussion
*José Sibaja — trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...
*Ismael Vergara — saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...
(tenor)
*Alberto Barros — trombone
The trombone (german: Posaune, 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 vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...
*Ahmed Barroso — tres cubano
The tres (Spanish for ''three'') is a three-course chordophone of Cuban origin. The most widespread variety of the instrument is the original Cuban tres with six strings. Its sound has become a defining characteristic of the Cuban son and it is ...
*Gianko "Yanko" Gomez — chorus
*Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
*Isaías García — recording engineer
Technical credits
*Xarah — Pro Tools
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-productio ...
*Chris Zalles — Pro Tools
*Sebastian Krys — mixing engineer
A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"), whether in music, film, or any other content of a ...
*Gavin Lurseen — mastering engineer
A mastering engineer is a person skilled in the practice of taking audio (typically musical content) that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in distr ...
*Reuben Cohen — mastering assistant
*Guido Díaz — sound engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...
on "Puente" (Caribe)
*Juan Mario Aracil — sound engineer, mixing engineer on "Puente" (Caribe)
*Ricardo Arjona — creative direction
*Carlos R. Perez — creative direction
*Elasticpeople.com — graphic design
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Chart performance
Weekly charts
Yearly charts
Sales and certifications
, -
,
, -
, Chile (IFPI
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)
, Gold
, 5,000^
, -
, Colombia ( ACPF)
, Gold
, 5,000*
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, a
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Release history
See also
* 2010 in Latin music
* List of number-one albums of 2010 (Mexico)
Top 100 Mexico is a record chart published weekly by AMPROFON (Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas), a non-profit organization composed by Mexican and multinational record companies. This association tracks record sal ...
* List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums of 2010
* List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s
The ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums chart, published by ''Billboard'' magazine, is a record chart that ranks the performance of Latin music albums in the United States. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes musi ...
References
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2010 albums
Ricardo Arjona albums
Spanish-language albums
Warner Music Latina albums