Bolero refers to two distinct genres of slow-tempo Latin music and their associated dances. The oldest type of bolero originated in Spain during the late 18th century as a form of ballroom music, which influenced art music composers around the world, most famously Maurice Ravel's Boléro, as well as a flamenco style known as boleras. An unrelated genre of sung music originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. This genre gained widespread popularity around Latin America throughout the 20th century and continues to thrive.
Juan Luis Guerra Seijas, known professionally as Juan Luis Guerra, is a Dominican singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He has sold over 30 million records, and has won numerous awards including 18 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards. Guerra won 3 Latin Grammy Awards in 2010, including Album of the Year. In 2012, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year.
Bolero is a genre of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance.
María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz better known professionally as Rocío Dúrcal was a Spanish singer and actress.
Ángel "Cucco" Peña is a composer, musician, singer, and record producer.
Romance is the eighth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel. It was released by WEA Latina on 19 November 1991. Although the production was originally intended as another collaboration with Juan Carlos Calderón, that plan was scrapped when Calderón was unable to compose songs for the album. Facing a new-material deadline in his recording contract, at his manager's suggestion Miguel chose bolero music for his next project. Mexican singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero was hired by WEA Latina to co-produce the album with Miguel. Recording began in August 1991 at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, California, with Bebu Silvetti the arranger.
Javier Solís was a Mexican singer of boleros and rancheras as well as a movie actor.
Un Canto de México is the tenth album by Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández. It was recorded during a performance in the concert hall of the "Palacio de Bellas Artes". The concert paid tribute to Mexico's greatest singers and songwriters of some of the great Mexican songs of the last century.
Abrázame Muy Fuerte is the 25th studio album recorded by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel. It was released by BMG U.S. Latin on December 12, 2000. It is also the main theme song for the Mexican telenovela Abrázame Muy Fuerte (2000-2001), produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre, Victoria Ruffo, Fernando Colunga and Aracely Arámbula starred as the protagonists, while César Évora, Nailea Norvind, Helena Rojo and Rossana San Juan, portrayed the antagonists. In 2002 the album was awarded at the Premio Lo Nuestro for Pop Album of the Year and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 44th Annual Grammy Awards.
10 Exitos de Juan Gabriel is the fifth studio album released by Juan Gabriel on January 1, 1975, and re-released on April 15, 1991.
Con la Banda...El Recodo is the twenty-fourth studio album released by Mexican singer Juan Gabriel and Mexican Banda sinaloense group Banda el Recodo on December 8, 1998.
Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón was a Mexican popular music composer and songwriter, born in San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca. He wrote over 300 songs, mostly boleros, including the great hits Amor mío, Sabor a mí, Como se lleva un lunar, El andariego, Luz de luna, Sabrá Dios, Seguiré mi viaje and La mentira.
"Abrázame Muy Fuerte" is a song written and performed by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel. The song was produced and arranged by Bebu Silvetti and it was released as the second single from the album of the same title. The track became Gabriel's seventh number-one single in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart. The parent album became commercially successful, peaking at number two in the Top Latin Albums chart in the United States. The singer also received a nomination for Best Latin Pop Album at the 44th Grammy Awards for this release.
Los Dúo is the twenty-eighth studio album released by Juan Gabriel on February 10, 2015. It features many artists singing duets with Juan Gabriel. A DVD will also come with the album. The album has won the award for Album of the Year at the Latin American Music Awards of 2015.
Los Dúo, Vol. 2 is the twenty-ninth studio album released by Juan Gabriel on December 11, 2015. It features many artists singing duets with Juan Gabriel. A DVD will also come with the album. The album won Album of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
Eva Garza was a noted Mexican American vocalist, film actress and interpreter of the romantic bolero who acquired international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s. She collaborated on live radio shows and films with some of the leading performers of her time including Mexico's Agustín Lara. She was nicknamed "Sweetheart of the Americas".
This is a list of notable events in Latin music that took place in 1991.
Juan Nepomuceno Arvizu Santelices, was an acclaimed lyric tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of the Latin American bolero and tango on the international concert stage, on the radio and in film. He was widely noted for his interpretations of the works of Agustin Lara and María Grever and was nicknamed "The Tenor With the Silken Voice".
"Así Fue" is a song written and produced by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel and performed by Spanish singer Isabel Pantoja. It was released in 1988 as the second single from her studio album Desde Andalucía. The song tells of the singer dealing with her ex-lover after she has a new fiancé. It reached number two on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States and was the fifth best-performing Latin single of 1989 in the country. Nine years later, Juan Gabriel performed a live cover version of the song at the Palacio de Bellas Artes which was recorded and released as a live album titled Celebrando 25 Años de Juan Gabriel: En Concierto en el Palacio de Bellas Artes (1998).
