name | El Alma Al Aire |
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type | studio |
artist | Alejandro Sanz |
cover | Elalmaalaire.jpg |
released | September 26, 2000 |
recorded | March–July 2000 at Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida) |
genre | Latin pop |
length | 54:47 |
label | WEA Latina |
producer | Emanuele Ruffinengo |
last album | ''Discografía Completa: Edición Especial Gira 98'' (1998) |
this album | ''El Alma Al Aire'' (2000) |
next album | ''Lo esencial de... alejandro sanz'' (2001) |
misc | }} |
''El Alma al Aire'' is the fifth studio album recorded by Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz in which he gives us interpretations that come from the soul, melodies in which it seems that the voice breaks. It is one of his more suggestive and emotive works. It beat all the records of sale of the Spanish market on having reached the 1,000,000 copies in the first week .
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name | El Alma Al Aire: Edición Especial |
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type | studio |
artist | Alejandro Sanz |
cover | elalmaalaire-esp.jpg |
released | June 6, 2001 |
recorded | March–July 2000 at Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida) |
genre | Latin pop |
length | 54:47 (CD 1) 23:27 (CD 2) |
label | WEA Latina |
producer | Emanuele Ruffinengo, David Foster |
misc | }} |
''El Alma Al Aire: Edición Especial'' is the 2001 re-release of the album El Alma Al Aire containing 2 CDs. The CD 1 is the same as the original album and the CD 2 contains 5 new tracks (His duets with the Irish group The Corrs, a duet with the Mexican singer Armando Manzanero and a remix of the song ''"Tiene Que Ser Pecado"'').
name | El Alma Al Aire |
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type | studio |
artist | Alejandro Sanz |
released | September 26, 2006 |
recorded | March–July 2000 at Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida) |
genre | Latin pop |
label | Warner Music Latina |
reviews | }} |
''El Alma Al Aire (Edición 2006)'' is the 2006 re-release of the album El Alma Al Aire containing a CD and DVD. The CD contains 13 tracks and the DVD contains 14 videos.
Category:2000 albums Category:Alejandro Sanz albums Category:Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year Category:Warner Music Latina albums
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Name | Alejandro Sanz |
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Background | solo_singer |
Birth name | Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro |
Birth date | December 18, 1968 |
Origin | Madrid, Spain |
Instrument | Vocals, guitar, piano |
Genre | Latin pop |
Occupation | Singer, songwriter |
Years active | 1988–present |
Label | Warner Music Benelux |
associated acts | Juanes, Shakira, Alicia Keys, Calle 13 |
Website | AlejandroSanz.com }} |
Alejandro Sanz (born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18, 1968), is a Spanish singer-songwriter and musician. For his work, Sanz has won a total of fifteen Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Awards. He has won the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year three times, more than any other artist. Throughout his career, he has released a total of ten studio albums and six DVDs.
Born in Madrid, Sanz began playing guitar at age seven, taking influence from his family's flamenco roots. He released his debut album at age sixteen, although he did not gain commercial success until his second release, ''Viviendo Deprisa''. His next two records, ''Si Tu Me Miras'' and ''3'' also fared well commercially, but it was his 1997 breakthrough album ''Más'' that garnered international success. ''El Alma al Aire'' followed in 2000, selling more than a million copies in its first week.
In 2002, he became the first Spanish artist to record an ''MTV Unplugged'' album. His collaboration with Shakira on the single "La Tortura" reached number one on several charts worldwide. His albums ''No Es Lo Mismo'' (2003) and ''El Tren de los Momentos'' (2006) showed Sanz experimenting with more diverse styles of music, while his most recent release, ''Paraíso Express'' (2009) served as a return to form for the musician. He signed to Universal Music Group in 2011 and is reported to be working on his tenth studio album.
He was exposed to traditional flamenco music as a child while vacationing each summer in his parents' native Andalucía in southern Spain. Originally, Sanz intended to become a flamenco performer, but he found the music teachers to be overly strict. Commenting on his early experiences, Sanz explained, "Flamenco can be very hard on beginners. If you lose the rhythm, they toss you out with, 'You're no good, boy!' They're very strict and very cruel. But it's also a marvelous education, because you either learn to play or else." He felt that he could not compete with his peers, and decided to focus on creating pop music with flamenco influences, viewing flamenco to be a "lifestyle" better suited to others.
Sanz's rise to fame began in 1991, when he released his first album from Warner, ''Viviendo Deprisa''. The record and the songs "Pisando Fuerte" and "Se le Apago la Luz" helped him gain a dedicated fan base in Spain. In 1993, he released ''Si Tu Me Miras'' shortly followed by a live album, titled ''Básico''. That same year, he recorded a song with flamenco pioneer Paco de Lucía, whom Sanz idolized as a child. He released his third studio album, ''3'', in 1995. In addition to Spanish, ''3'' was also released in Italian and Portuguese. "La Fuerza Del Corazon", the first single released from ''3'', was his first song to chart internationally. All three albums proved to be successful, reaching multi-platinum status in Spain.
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His fifth album, ''El Alma al Aire'', released September 26, 2000, featured Sanz exploring diverse genres of music, including jazz, R&B;, soul and tango. In Spain, the album sold more than one million copies in the first week, breaking the record of one million copies sold in four months, also set by Sanz with his previous album, ''Más''. At the 2001 Latin Grammy Awards, Sanz walked away with four awards: Best Pop Male Vocal Album and Album of the Year for ''El Alma Al Aire'', and Record of the Year and Song of the Year for the title track from the album. Later that year, ''El Alma Al Aire'' was released in a special edition including Sanz's duets with Irish band The Corrs. In October 2001, Sanz collaborated with Michael Jackson and various other artists on the Spanish version of the charity single "What More Can I Give", which benefited the victims of the September 11 attacks.
In 2002, Sanz recorded ''MTV Unplugged'' at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida. He was the first Spanish artist to record and release an ''MTV Unplugged'' album. For Sanz, the recording of the album "changed the way I do my music. It was a rediscovery of how to perform, and also how to record, music with live musicians. That was the spirit of the music in its pure form, though [it is ironic] that the more people who are playing, the more simple it is." With the ''MTV Unplugged'', he garnered three Latin Grammy Awards (Album of the Year, Recording of the Year and Song of the Year for "Y Sólo Se Me Ocurre Amarte").
In 2005, Sanz collaborated with Shakira on her song "La Tortura". Co-written by Sanz, the song became an international hit, breaking the record for the most weeks at the number one spot on the Hot Latin Songs chart. The song exposed Sanz to a more diverse audience, and helped build anticipation for his next release. The first single from the album ''El Tren de los Momentos'', "A la primera persona", became his first song to enter the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at number 100 on the chart. The record was also noted for its guest appearances, which featured Shakira, Juanes, Alex González of Maná, and Residente of Calle 13.
In the spring of 2007, Sanz suffered a mental breakdown and was forced to take two months off in the middle of a world tour. The breakdown was caused by several events in his personal life, including the death of his father in 2005, his separation Mexican model and actress Jaydy Mitchel, and his announcement that he had a three-year-old son outside of his marriage with Mitchel. He commented on the situation, saying "You have to put things in perspective. It was stress, something that had never affected me, but this time, yes, it did. So I had to pay. A doctor told me to stop for a couple of months to recuperate completely." Sanz spent time in therapy, a time which "helped [him] a lot" and gave him "more power" to perform.
In a press conference in late 2007, he criticized Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, calling him "undemocratic" in the wake of a petition made by Venezuelan citizens to prevent Chavez from running for re-election. Sanz further stated "If they gave me 3 million signatures to stop singing, I would stop singing immediately." Supporters of Chavez subsequently gathered 230,000 signatures in response to Sanz' comments.
Early in his career, his music generally consisted of romantic ballads. However, in the late 1990s, his collaborations with other artists greatly expanded his musical style. On ''No Es Lo Mismo'', he experimented with rock, salsa, and hip hop. While recording the album, he noted that he often entered the studio with a rough idea for a song and the guest artists would "contaminate it with their rhythms...in a good way." ''El Tren de los Momentos'' continued this pattern of musical experimentation, featuring diverse genres such as funk, jazz, and country. Despite this, Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic described his musical evolution by saying "Even as Sanz broadened his style over the years, he never ventured far from his strength: romantic songs, generally ballads, tinged with flamenco and sung wholeheartedly with his distinct voice."
Sanz welcomed his third child in New York, a boy named Dylan (b. July 2011), the first child from his relationship with girlfriend and former assistant, Raquel Perera. Sanz chose virtuoso flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía to be the godfather to his son. Alejandro and Raquel are godparents to David Bisbal's daughter, Ella.
In addition to music, Sanz enjoys painting, which he often does while trying to create ideas for new songs. He explains that painting "teaches you that taking risks rarely leads to failure. In fact, from the moment you assume a risk, you have succeeded."
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Marián Aguilera Pérez (born 12 March 1977 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish film and television actress.
Her image was telecast for the world to see when she carried the Olympic flame at Empúries for Barcelona Olympics Games (1992), upon its arrival from Greece. She was 15.
The first film which she starred in was El Largo Invierno (1992), at the hands of Jaime Camino. Other highlights of her earlier film titles are La Cuidad de los Prodigios (1999), Quin Curs, el Meu Tercer! (1994) (TV) and Tuna Negro (2001).
But she is most remembered as Miriam when she starred in Al Salir de Clase (1997–1999), a TV series about the lives of a group of teenagers in Madrid. After the series ended, she starred in less successful Esencia de poder (2001–2002) and Código Fuego (2003).
Los Hombres de Paco / Paco’s Men (2005–2009) catapulted her into international stardom and fame, with her character Silvia Castro Leon, la pelirroja. It created a new fan-base, and countless forums and websites (in many languages) dedicated to her character Silvia and the love story between Silvia and Pepa. However, to great dismay of the series and her character’s fans, Marián Aguilera left the show in 2009 to allow herself to grow and explore other possibilities. She re-appeared in the series’ final season a few times as an illusion/imagination (or perhaps a ghost) to Paco.
For her performance in Los Hombres de Paco, she was nominated Best TV Actress at the 60th Fotogramas de Plata in 2009.
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