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Frío Frío
Frio Frio or Frio, Frio (English: Cold, Cold) is the lead single of the sixth studio album ''Areito'' by Dominican superstar ''Juan Luis Guerra''. The song is considered to be a bachata by many, however it is actually a bolero. It was written based on a poem by Federico García Lorca and was released in August 1991. The track received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for Tropical Salsa Song of the Year at the 4th Lo Nuestro Awards. Frio Frio was a success peaking at number 4 on Billboard Hot Latin Tracks and at the Top 5 airplay in Panama and Uruguay. The track was included on Guerra's greatest hits album '' Grandes Éxitos Juan Luis Guerra y 440 and Coleccion Romantica (2001).'' In 2013, a live version of the song with Romeo Santos was released as lead single of Guerra's live album A Son de Guerra ''A Son de Guerra'' (transl. To The Beat Of War), sometimes referred to as ''Asondeguerra'', is the 11th studio album recorded by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born 7 June 1957) is a People of the Dominican Republic, Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards including 28 Latin Grammy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and one Billboard Latin Music Awards, Latin Billboard Music Award. He won 3 Latin Grammy Awards of 2010, Latin Grammy Awards in 2010, including Album of the Year. In 2012, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year. He has sold 15 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling Latin music artists, best-selling Latin music artists. Guerra is one of the most internationally recognized Latin music (genre), Latin artists of recent decades. His popular style of Merengue music, merengue and Latin music, Latin fusion has garnered him considerable success throughout Latin America. He is also credited for popularizing bachata (music), bachata music on a global level and is often associated with the genre, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Areíto (album)
''Areíto'' is the sixth album by Juan Luis Guerra with his band 440, released on 8 December 1992, by Karem Records. The album, meant to be a tribute to the indigenous tribes of the Dominican Republic, is named after a dance that the aboriginal inhabitants of the Greater Antilles (Taínos) accompanied with songs during their festivals and religious rites. The album contains twelve tracks including "Cuando te Beso", interpret by Santo Domingo Philharmonic Orchestra. Congolese musician Diblo Dibala played guitar on the song " El Costo de la Vida", which was a Spanish cover of his own soukous song "Kimia Eve", while the last track on the album, "Naboria daca, mayanimacaná", is sung in Arawak, the language of the Taíno people. ''Areíto'' was originally set to be released in early April 1992, but was first delayed to the end of October 1992 and was finally released on 8 December 1992. According to Guerra himself, ''Areíto'' did not serve as a follow-up to his previous album ''Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachata (music)
Bachata is a genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century. It contains elements of European (mainly Music of Spain, Spanish music), indigenous Taino and African musical elements, representing the Culture of the Dominican Republic, cultural diversity of the Dominican population. A form of dance, Bachata (dance), bachata, also developed with the music.Pacini Hernandez, Deborah"Brief history of Bachata" ''Bachata, A social history of a Dominican popular music'', 1995, Temple University Press. Retrieved on December 4, 2008 In the 1990s bachata's instrumentation changed from nylon string Spanish guitar and maracas of traditional bachata to the electric guitar, electric steel string and guira of modern bachata. Bachata further transformed in the 21st century with the creation of urban bachata styles by bands such as Monchy y Alexandra and Aventura (band), Aventura. These new modern styles of bachata became an international phenomenon, and today bach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Señales De Humo
Señales de Humo (transl. Smoke Signals) is the second single of Juan Luis Guerra's sixth studio album Areito (1992). The track is divided in two parts: The first part is a bachata and the second one the rhythm transformed to Mambo with elements of son and salsa. The title made reference of the communication that the indigenous use between vast and unpopulated areas and that are made by bonfires. The song met with critical acclaim and won Song of The Year at the 1994 BMI Latin Awards. The track was a great success in Latin America and Billboard US Latin charts. The track was included on Guerra`s compilation album ''Colección Romantica ''Colección Romántica'' is a compilation album by Dominican songwriter and musician Juan Luis Guerra and 4.40. It was released in November 21, 2000 and February 6, 2001 in the United States by Karen Records. It is a dual album compilation inclu ... (2001).'' Charts References {{Juan Luis Guerra 1992 songs Juan Luis Guerra songs Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Santos
Anthony "Romeo" Santos (born July 21, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer who is best known as the frontman and lead vocalist of the Bachata (music), bachata group Aventura (band), Aventura. In 2002, the song "Obsesión (Aventura song), Obsesión" was number one in Italy for 16 consecutive weeks. He released several albums with Aventura before the group broke up in 2011. Since then, Santos has embarked on a solo career which has included seven number one songs on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart and seventeen number ones on the Tropical Airplay chart. He has sold over 24 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling Latin music artists, best-selling Latin artists ever. Early life He was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, on July 21, 1981, to a People of the Dominican Republic, Dominican father and a Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican mother. He had a humble upbringing, with his father, who worked in construction, being un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premio Lo Nuestro 1992
The 4th Lo Nuestro Awards ceremony, presented by Univision honoring the best Latin music of 1991 and 1992 took place on May 14, 1992, at a live presentation held at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ceremony was broadcast in the United States and Latin America by Univision. During the ceremony, nineteen categories were presented. Winners were announced at the live event and included Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel receiving four competitive awards. Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra, Mexican group Pandora, and American band La Mafia earned two accolades each. Background In 1989, the Lo Nuestro Awards were established by Univision, to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on ''Billboard'' Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandes Éxitos Juan Luis Guerra Y 440
''Grandes Éxitos de Juan Luis Guerra y 440'' or simply ''Grandes Éxitos'' is a compilation album of Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, and his band 440 released in July 1995 by Karem Records. It contained Guerra's fifteen biggest hits from 1988 to 1994 on the original version and from the albums ''Mudanza y Acarreo'' ''(1985) to Fogarate! (1994)'' on the international versions. The compilation receive positive reviews by the critics. Among the tracks are two songs from the controversial album '' Áreito'' that was said to have anti-capitalist tendencies. Although Guerra decieded to quit recording protest songs, he included these two tracks, of which '' El costo de la vida'' was his first number-one hit in the Hot Latin Tracks. On September 17, 1996, the album was re-released to include the two tracks "''Si tu te vas''" (Guerra first merengue song) and "Señorita", a track that he composed for the movie "My Family". The album was commercial success and reached the Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colección Romantica
''Colección Romántica'' is a compilation album by Dominican songwriter and musician Juan Luis Guerra and 4.40. It was released in November 21, 2000 and February 6, 2001 in the United States by Karen Records. It is a dual album compilation including 20 of the group's classic songs remastered and re-recorded as ballads. The album also contained unaltered original versions of their softer songs, like acoustic ballads or bachatas. It would become Guerra's last album released under the Dominican independent music label Karen Records, as his later albums would be released under Vene Music and subsequently under EMI music and Capitol Latin. The album includes new versions of the tracks ("Tu"; "Ay Mujer" and "Razones") and live version of the song "'' Estrellitas y Duendes''" recorded at La Plaza de Las Ventas in Madrid in 1992.Also it include, the orchestrations mesmerizing on such one-of-a-kind hits as "Bachata rosa," "Burbujas de amor, " and "Paimolita blanca." The tracks; Tu and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Son De Guerra Tour (album)
''A Son de Guerra Tour'', stylized ''Asondeguerra Tour'', is a live album from Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra. It was recorded during the A Son de Guerra World Tour at Santo Domingo in front of 42,000 audience. Reception Thom Jurek of AllMusic gave the album a positive review and wrote "This is a stellar live offering, impeccably performed and recorded" ''A Son de Guerra Tour'' debuted and peaked at number 80 on the Billboard 200. It also peaked and debuted at number one in the ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums and Tropical Albums charts. ''A Son de Guerra Tour'' won the Contemporary Tropical Album in 2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask .... Track listing Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Sales and certifications References {{Juan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Latin Songs
The ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs (formerly Hot Latin Tracks and Hot Latin 50) is a record chart in the United States for Latin music, Latin songs, published weekly by Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' magazine. Since October 2012, chart rankings are based on Music download, digital sales, airplay, radio airplay, and Music streaming, online streaming, and only predominantly Spanish-language songs are allowed to rank. The chart was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986, and was originally based on airplay on Latin music radio stations. Although the chart predominantly allows Spanish-language songs, songs in English and Portuguese have charted. The first number one song of the Hot Latin Songs chart was "La Guirnalda" by Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986. As of the issue dated June 14, 2025, the chart has had 466 different number one hits, while 192 artists have reached number one (as a lead or a featured act). The current number-one song on the chart is "DTMF (song), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
