''¡México Por Siempre!'' ("Forever Mexico"), stylized as ''¡MÉXICO Por Siempre!'', is the 20th

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 ...

by Mexican singer

Luis Miguel Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". Luis Miguel has sung in mu ...

. The album was released by Warner Music Mexico on 24 November 2017. The album won two

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, including

Album of the Year Album of the Year, often abbreviated to AOTY, may refer to: Awards * ARIA Award for Album of the Year, Australia * Brit Award for British Album of the Year, UK * Grammy Award for Album of the Year, US * Juno Award for Album of the Year, CA * Lati ...

, and also the

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for

Best Regional Mexican Music Album The Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums i ...

Promotion

To promote ''¡México por siempre!'', Luis Miguel began his ''México por siempre Tour'' on 21 February 2018 at the

National Auditorium National Auditorium ( es, Auditorio Nacional) is an entertainment center at Paseo de la Reforma #50, Chapultepec in Mexico City. The National Auditorium is considered among the world's best venues by specialized media. It was designed by Mexica ...

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

. The tour totaled 150 concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America and Spain and was confirmed by Billboard as the tour of the year and the most successful Latin tour worldwide. Boxscore reported that the 2018 leg of Luis Miguel's ''México por siempre Tour'' run was the highest grossing Latin lour since the chart launched in 1990, pulling in $64.9 million from 613,000 tickets sold, and earning the hitmaker a

Latin American Music Award The Latin American Music Awards (Latin AMAs) is an annual American music awards show produced by the MRC (company), MRC Live and Alternative. It is the Spanish-language counterpart of the American Music Awards (AMAs). As with AMAs, the Latin AMAs ...

for tour of the year. He also break his own record performing 35 concerts in a tour at the

, surpassing the 30 shows he did with the

México En La Piel Tour México En La Piel Tour was a concert tour performed by Luis Miguel in support of his albums '' México en la Piel'' and later his album ''Navidades'' during 2006–2007. On this tour, Luis Miguel performed his recent pop songs, his newest Mexic ...

in 2006.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the ''¡México Por Siempre!'' liner notes:

Performance credits

Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán Mariachi (, , ) is a genre of regional Mexican music that dates back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. The usual mariachi group today consists of as many as eight violins, t ...

*Carlos Martínez – director, first

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

*Alberto Alfaro – violin *Miguel Ángel Barrón "Gigio" – violin *Andrés González – violin *Arturo Vargas –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*Enrique de Santiago –

guitarrón Guitarrón or guitarron is a common name for a number of stringed instruments found in Latin America and may refer to: * Guitarrón argentino, a six-stringed musical instrument from Argentina * Guitarrón chileno, a 25-stringed, plucked instrument ...

*Gilberto Aguirre –

vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t ...

*Gustavo Alvarado –

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 ...

*Jorge Aguayo – trumpet *Eduardo Serna – trumpet Additional musicians *Armando Arellano – violin *Sergio Caratache – violin *Simón Casas – violin *Fernando Martínez – violin *Pepe Martínez Jr. – violin *Julio Serna – violin *Luke Maurer – viola *Michael Whitson – viola *Rodney Wirtz – viola *Alwyn Wright – viola *Vanessa Freebairn-Smith –

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 ...

*Alisha Bauer – cello *Giovanna Clayton – cello *Trevor Handy – cello *Chris Bleth –

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A ...

*Heather Clark –

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

*Stephen Kujala – flute *James Thatcher –

french horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

*Jenny Kim – french horn *Guillermo Acuña –

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

Ramón Stagnaro Ramón Stagnaro (May 10, 1954 – February 16, 2022) was a Peruvian guitarist and producer who had a career of 40 years, and who had toured or recorded with many great artists such as Alex Acuña, Eva Ayllon, Diana Ross, Gino Vannelli, Celine Di ...

–

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

*David Reitzas –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Chorus *Alberto Alfaro *Israel Bustos *Simón Casas *Andrés González *Carlos Martínez *Pepe Martínez Jr. *Jonathan Palomar *Arturo Vargas

Technical credits

*Luis Miguel – producer *David Reitzas – co-producer,

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

, mixer,

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 ...

*Carlos Martínez – musical direction *Shari Sutcliffe – production coordinator *Jess Sutcliffe – orchestra recording *Jeremy Simoneaux – recording assistant and mixing *Wesley Seidman – recording assistant *Monique Evelyn – recording assistant *Greg Eliason – recording assistant *Eric Boulanger – mastering engineer *Omar Cruz –

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

*Stephanie Hsu –

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

*Ravali Yan – photography pages 10 & 11

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

Official site of the artist
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mexico Por Siempre! Luis Miguel albums 2017 albums Warner Music Mexico albums Spanish-language albums Albums produced by Luis Miguel Latin Grammy Award winners for Album of the Year Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano)