''¡México Por Siempre!'' ( Spanish for: 'Mexico Forever'; stylized as ''¡MÉXICO Por Siempre!'') is the 20th studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel. Released on 24 November 2017 via Warner Music Mexico, it is his second full-length mariachi album following ''México en la Piel'' (2004). The album was produced solely by Luis Miguel, with instrumentation done by mariachi ensemble Vargas de Tecalitlán. The album was a commercial success, being certified three times platinum by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas ( AMPROFON) and peaking in the top ten on record charts in Mexico, Argentina and Spain. It won two

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for Album of the Year and Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album, and won 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'' was the highest-grossing Latin tour since the chart launched in 1990, pulling in $64.9 million from 613,000 tickets sold, and earning Luis Miguel a

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for tour of the year. He also broke 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

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

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

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

*Enrique de Santiago – guitarrón *Gilberto Aguirre – vihuela *Gustavo Alvarado –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*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 violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

*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 type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

*Heather Clark – flute *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 o ...

*Jenny Kim – french horn *Guillermo Acuña – harp * Ramón Stagnaro –

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 percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

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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, mixer,

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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 –

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating 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 empl ...

*Stephanie Hsu –

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art that involves creating visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of ...

*Ravali Yan – photography pages 10 & 11

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

Official site of the artist
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