Motivation (Bertín Osborne album)

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Motivation
Bertin Osborne Motivation cover.jpg
Studio album by Bertín Osborne
Released 1989
Genre Pop
Label Iperspazio
Producer Wes Farrell, Rudy Pérez
Bertín Osborne chronology
Vida O Castigo
(1988)		''Motivation''
(1989)		 Acuerdate de Mi
(1990)

Motivation is a studio album released by Bertín Osborne in 1989. [1] It was the first (and to date, only) all-English-language release from the popular Spanish singer. [2] The album was recorded in Miami, Florida, at Criteria Studios and Middle Ear Recording Studio. [3]

Bertín Osborne Spanish singer and actor

Norberto Juan Ortiz Osborne, better known as Bertín Osborne, is a Spanish vocalist, actor and TV personality. He was born in Madrid, but his life and his childhood are related to his maternal origins in Puerto de Santa María and later in Jerez de la Frontera. He has some distant English descent, thus his second last name. This was over two hundred years ago when his great-grandfather immigrated to Jerez Spain.

Spain Kingdom in Southwest Europe

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country mostly located in Europe. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

Florida State of the United States of America

Florida is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area. Tallahassee is the state's capital.

Contents

Despite Osborne's popularity in Spain, the disc was not officially released in his home country, though it was available as an import. [2] [4]

Track listing [5]

  1. "Motivation" (Rudy Pérez, J. Farrell) - 3:55
  2. "Like a Fool" (Bee Gees) - 4:06
  3. "If I Could Only Change Her Mind" (Scott Cutler, Clyde Lieberman) - 3:40
  4. "Toys" (Bee Gees) - 5:03
  5. "Fallin'" (Michael Bolton, Bobby Caldwell) - 3:55
  6. "Freedom" (Riccardo Cocciante, J. Johnston) - 3:41
  7. "Closer to the Edge" (Bernie Taupin, Martin Page) - 4:49
  8. "Prove Me Wrong" (Billy Simon, Wayne Kirkpatrick) - 4:25
  9. "On the Heels of a Heartache" (B. Crew, J. Corbetta, M. Holden) - 4:19
  10. "The End" (D. Kisselbach, L. Merlino) - 3:44

Personnel [3]

Rudy Pérez American musician

Rudy Amado Pérez is a Cuban-born American musician, songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, sound engineer, musical director and singer, as well as entertainment entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His area of specialty is ballads, although he has also worked in a variety of other genres.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Percussion instrument Type of musical instrument that produces a sound by being hit

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References

  1. ↑ Coveralia.com (June 7, 2014). "Motivation - Bertín Osborne" . Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Bertín Osborne Official Discography (Spanish)" . Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Liner notes of Motivation (1989, Iperspazio).
  4. ↑ "Motivation - Bertín Osborne". June 7, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ Coveralia.com (June 7, 2014). "Carátula Interior Frontal de Motivation - Bertín Osborne" . Retrieved June 7, 2014.
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