''Los Últimos Héroes'' is a
studio album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...
by the Puerto Rican
boy band
A boy band is a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their Teenage, teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform love songs marketed towards girls and young women. Many boy bands ...
Menudo, released in 1989 by the record label Melody.
[.] The album was produced and recorded in Caracas, Venezuela, by Willie Croes, who is a producer and husband of Brazilian singer Elisa Rego.
[.] The group's lineup included Sergio Gonzalez,
Rubén Gómez,
Angelo García
Angelo Garcia (born March 28, 1976) is an American singer of Puerto Rican descent, who was a member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo from 1988 to 1990.
Career
A native New Yorker born in Brooklyn, New York, he barely spoke Spanish when he aud ...
,
Robert Avellanet
Roberto Alejandro Avellanet Negrón, known professionally as Robert Avellanet or Roba, is a Puerto Rican singer who was a member of '' Menudo'' from 1988 to 1991. His uncle is the famous Puerto Rican singer Chucho Avellanet.
Biography
Avella ...
, and the new member
Rawy Torres
Wilson Ramón Torres Zapata "Rawy Torres" is a Puerto Rican singer, composer, and guitarist, who was a member of the boy band, Menudo.
Biography
Torres joined Menudo in 1989, replacing Ricky Martin
Enrique Martin Morales (born Decem ...
, who replaced
Ricky Martin
Enrique Martin Morales (born December 24, 1971), known professionally as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for his musical versatility, with his Ricky Martin albums discography, discography incorporati ...
.
Promotion
To promote the album, the group embarked on an extensive tour, performing 40 shows in the United States and various other countries in South America.
In 1989, a concert held in Caracas was released on
VHS
VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s.
Ma ...
.
The recordings took place at El Poliedro De Caracas on October 28 and 29 (Saturday and Sunday), 1989.
The album's title was revived years later when the group reunited for a series of concerts in Puerto Rico and other Latin America countries in 2002 and 2005. This was the last album to feature Angelo García, who left the group at age 13 and was replaced by César Abreu.
Commercial performance
The album achieved significant commercial success, selling 40,000 copies in the United States,
[.] and earning a
platinum certification
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in
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
.
The album's success inspired a homonymous telenovela miniseries, featuring future member Jonathan Montenegro in the cast.
Track listing
Certification and sales
Notes
References
Bibliography
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Menudo (band) albums
1989 albums