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

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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 Latin Grammy Awards, including

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, and also the

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for Best Regional Mexican Music Album.

Promotion

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

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

, surpassing the 30 shows he did with the México En La Piel Tour in 2006.

Track listing

Personnel

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

Performance credits

Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán *Carlos Martínez – director, first

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

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*Enrique de Santiago – guitarrón *Gilberto Aguirre – vihuela *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 bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, ...

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

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*Heather Clark –

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*Stephen Kujala – flute *James Thatcher –

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*Jenny Kim – french horn *Guillermo Acuña –

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–

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*David Reitzas –

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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,

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*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 –

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*Stephanie Hsu –

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*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)