''Seducción'' (English: ''Seduction'') is the sixth

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recorded by

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recording artist

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, The album was released by

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on May 18, 2004 (see

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). This effort debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums chart.

Background

This recording reteamed the singer with

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and offered new production by Emilio Estefan, Jr. "Vivo y Muero En Tu Piel" was selected as the

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, and peaked at number one in the

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charts, her second single to do so. ''Seducción'' was released in a traditional CD package format and also as a CD/DVD combo which included the original track listing and a DVD with documentary, music videos and a picture gallery. The album was received well selling over 300,000, being certified multi-platinum by the

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. On this production, Jennifer Peña became a contributing producer for the first time on the tracks "Ya Verás" and "Si Yo Me Vuelvo A Enamorar". It was once again executive produced by

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, head of

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. Heavy promotion followed the album which included stops in

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and all across the United States and

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. The success of this album led to many nominations for the Billboard Latin Music Award, including: Latin Pop Album of the Year for the album, and Latin Pop Airplay Track of the Year, Tropical Airplay Track of the Year and Regional Mexican Airplay Track of the Year for the first single "Vivo y Muero en Tu Piel". Also Jennifer received the

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for Female Entertainer of the Year.

Track listing

The information from

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CD

DVD

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Credits and personnel

Adapted from Allmusic.

Personnel

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*Luz De La Cruz – Executive producer *Emilio Estefan, Jr. – Producer *Carlos Infante – Producer *Manny Lara – Producer *Kike Santander – Producer *Jennifer Peña –

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, producer *Gaitán Bros. –

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, producer, vocals, direction *José Luis Arroyave – Arranger, keyboards, programming, producer *Daniel Betancourt – Arranger, keyboards, programming, producer *Tulio Cremisini – Arranger, electric guitar, keyboards, programming, producer *

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– Arranger, keyboards, programming *Boris Milan – Mixing *Andrés Bermúdez –

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*Bruce Weeden – Engineer *Scott Canto – Engineer *Juan Jose Virviescas – Engineer *Alfred Figueroa – Engineer *Joel Numa – Engineer *David López – Assistant engineer *Richie Pérez – Assistant engineer *Daniel Ponce – Assistant engineer *Kevin Dillon – Production coordination *Leyla Leeming – Production Coordination *Betsy Perez – Production Coordination *José Juan Maldonado – Production Coordination *Ángela Duque – Artist coordination *Steve Menezes – Studio Coordinator *Andrés Castro –

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*Manny López – Guitar, arranger, keyboards, programming *Richard Bravo –

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*Julio Hernández –

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*Sergio Minski – Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, production coordination *Archie Peña – Percussion,

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*Rafael Vergara –

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*Area 305 – Vocals *Vicky Echeverri – Vocals *Robin Espejo – Vocals *Mario Patiño –

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*Gio Alma –

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*Vaughn Smith – Video director *Irma Martínez – Stylist

Charts

Sales and certifications

Notes

References

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