Cristian Sáinz Castro is a Mexican pop singer. He is the son of actors Veronica Castro and Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, and nephew of actors Ramón Valdés and Germán "Tin-Tan" Valdés.
Raulín Marte Rodríguez is a bachata artist, one of the first major bachata artists to have international success and popularize this style of music in the Dominican Republic.
Grupo Bryndis is a Mexican Grupera band from Cerritos, San Luis Potosí, - though founded in Santa Paula, California in 1983 by Mauro Posadas, the band is a Latin Grammy Award winner. The band performs in the balada tecnocumbia, grupera genres.
Sasha Marianne Sökol Cuillery is a Mexican singer, composer, actress and television presenter.
Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóver is a Peruvian musician and actor. He has won the Latin Grammy Award for the Best Singer-Songwriter Album three times. First in 2005 for his album Resucitar, in 2011 for his album Días Nuevos, and in 2012 for his album 20 Años. Gian Marco was named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Peru.
Daniela Romo is a Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess. During her career, she has sold 17 million records, making her one of the best-selling Latin music artists.
Con Todo Mi Corazón is the second album from Latin music singer and winner of the second season of Objetivo Fama, Anaís. The album was released in the U.S. on April 3, 2007 and had an April 18 release in Mexico. The lead single "Tu Amor No Es Garantía" premiered in January 2007. The majority of the songs included on the album are almost all ballads. Anaís has said in many interviews that she was given more creative control with this album. She did a cover of the Daniela Romo song "Quiero Amanecer Con Alguien" and of "Reencuentro" along with Milly Quezada and Sergio Vargas, originally recorded by Álvaro Torres. She also co-wrote "Sexy Mama", which is sung partly in English.
Amarte Es un Placer is the thirteenth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel. It was released by WEA Latina on 13 September 1999. Produced by Miguel, it is a pop album with R&B and jazz influences. Miguel was more involved with the songwriting on this record than on earlier albums and was assisted by composers including Arturo Pérez, Armando Manzanero, and Juan Carlos Calderón. Despite the popularity of his contemporaries Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias who crossed over to the English-language market, Miguel preferred to sing and record in Spanish at the time.
The 1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on Wednesday, September 13, 2000. The big winners were Luis Miguel, Santana and Maná with 3 awards; Juan Luis Guerra, Shakira, Fito Páez and Emilio Estefan Jr. received 2 awards each.
Mexican pop-rock band Maná has released 9 studio albums, 3 live albums, 7 compilation albums, 5 video albums, 2 box sets and 1 soundtrack album. Throughout their career, Mana has sold over 40 million albums worldwide, becoming the most successful Latin American band of all time. ¿Dónde Jugarán Los Niños? remains as the best-selling Spanish-language rock album in history with 10 million copies sold worldwide.
Leonardo Paniagua is one of the Dominican Republic's most popular bachata musicians. He emerged from obscurity to overnight stardom in the 1970s, when he recorded his first 45rpm record, "Amada, Amante" for Discos Guarachita.
Gitana is the fifth studio album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo. It was released in 1987. Like her previous albums, it was also a great success for her career, with several, of the songs making an impact on the Latin billboard charts.
Amada más que nunca is the seventh studio album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo. This album was released on 1991. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Pop Performance, which it lost to Vikki Carr's Cosas del Amor; and was also nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the Lo Nuestro Awards of 1992 and it is her most successful album to date.
De Mil Colores is the eighth studio album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo. This album was released in 1992, and it was produced by Bebu Silvetti, and it was a slight departure from the Pop sound of her 1991 predecessor, borrowing tendencies from caribbean music, with tropical arrangements very similar to the ones presented on her 1991 hit "Todo Todo Todo" from her last album. This was the last project of Daniela with EMI Capitol. It is also the last album of Daniela that appears in three different formats: LP, cassette and CD. The album and its singles all enjoyed great success on the billboard charts, just like her previous albums, with three of the singles cracking the Top ten of Latin billboard.
Un Nuevo Amor is the 9th studio album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo. This album was released on 1996 and it was produced by one of the greatest producers of the 80's and 90's "Danilo Vaona". All the songs were written by Daniela, "Danilo Vaona" and "Federico Vaona". The music video for the single "Mátame" was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award. This album was a return to the pop genre after the commercial and critical failure of her the cover album of rancheras La Cita, this was also her last album to make a significant impact on the Billboard charts and to be recognized in some way by the music industry awards.
Ave Fénix is the 11th studio album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo. It was released in the year of 2001. This was seen as an edgy and daring move by the public, making a significant departure from the usual material of career, with sounds very similar to artists like Kylie Minogue and Madonna, but it was a commercial failure due to the poor promotion by Daniela's team and her compromises with the telenovela El Manantial.
"La Guirnalda" is a song written and produced by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel and first recorded by Spanish performer Rocío Dúrcal. It was released in 1986 as the first single from Siempre, Dúrcal's tenth album produced by Juan Gabriel. The song became very successful and is often referred as one of her signature songs. According to the Billboard magazine electronic database, "La Guirnalda" holds the distinction for being the first number-one single on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart on September 6, 1986, being replaced at the top by Juan Gabriel with "Yo No Sé Qué Me Pasó"; however, in the printed version of the same chart, titled "Hot Latin 50" for the week of October 4, 1986, the songs appears at number three, following "Yo No Sé Qué Me Pasó" and Emmanuel's version of "Toda la Vida". In 1989, Mexican singer Daniela Romo recorded her own version of the song and included it on her album Quiero Amanecer con Alguien. The music video for the song was shot at Puerto Vallarta Beach, Mexico.
The discography of Panamanian reggaeton singer Flex consists of three studio albums, eight solo singles, one featured single and one EP; collaborations are also included.
Lourdes Robles is a singer-songwriter and actress, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her career started in the early 1980s as part of duo Lourdes y Carlos, releasing two albums. The duo split and Robles began a solo career, acting in "Barrio Cuatro Calles" and "Generaciones", along Puerto-Rican performer Chayanne. She also performed in some musical productions, including Hello, Dolly!, Into the Woods, and The Fantasticks.
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in Latin music in the 1980s, namely in Ibero-America. This includes recordings, festivals, award ceremonies, births and deaths of Latin music artists, and the advancement and adjournment of the genre from 1980 to 1989.
