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Alejandro Fernández
Alejandro Fernández (born April 24, 1971) is a popular Latin Grammy-winning Mexican singer.
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Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sanz (born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18, 1968), is a Spanish singer-songwriter and musician.
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Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, (; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became totally blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident.
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Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981), often known simply as Beyoncé ( ), is an American Pop/R&B; singer, songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B; girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
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Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC, OQ (; born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian pop singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the anglophone album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.
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Cuban-American
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Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and musician. She is best known for her roles as Mitchie Torres in the Camp Rock movies and as Sonny Munroe in Sonny With a Chance. Lovato starred in the 2009 movie Princess Protection Program. Before Disney, she had one of the roles on Barney & Friends.
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Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975), better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish pop music singer-songwriter.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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Geri Halliwell
Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell (born 6 August 1972) is an English pop singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist. After coming to international prominence as a member of the girl group, the Spice Girls, Halliwell launched her solo career and released her debut album Schizophonic. Since then she has released two more studio albums — Scream If You Wanna Go Faster and Passion — and four number one singles at the UK Singles Chart, "Mi Chico Latino", "Lift Me Up", "Bag It Up" and "It's Raining Men". In 2008 Halliwell published a book series named Ugenia Lavender. As a solo artist Halliwell has sold 12 million records worldwide and been nominated for Brit Awards in both 2000 and 2002.
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Gian Marco
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Hikaru Utada
(born January 19, 1983), known by her stage name Utada () in America and Europe, is a Japanese American singer, song writer, arranger, and producer.
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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), often nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in the U.S. according to People en Españols list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics". She her media fame into a fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement. Outside of her work in the entertainment industry, Lopez advocates human rights, vaccinations and is a supporter of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
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Josh Santana
Michael Alexander Alvarez Pamular, better known by his stage name Josh Santana is a Filipino television actor and singer. Santana was born on June 18 in Metro Manila, Philippines to Spanish-Filipino parents Ramon Delgado Pamular (judge) and Sonia Magno Alvarez Pamular. He rose to popularity in 2003 as the male love interest of Carol Banawa in the TV series Bituin. It was from the character he played in Bituin where he took the name Josh Santana.
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José José
José José (born José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz on February 17, 1948) is a Mexican singer.
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Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born June 7, 1957) is a Dominican singer, songwriter, and self-producer who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including nine Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards. He won 5 Latin Grammy awards in 2007 tying him with Juanes for the record of most Latin Grammys won in one night. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and is the son of Olga Seijas and Gilberto Guerra, a basketball player.
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Juanes
Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (born August 9, 1972), better known as Juanes (for the contraction of his first and middle name) is a Colombian musician who was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards.
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Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born September 23, 1943) better known as Julio Iglesias is a Spanish singer who has sold over 260 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 10 best selling music artists in history. While Iglesias rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as a performer of romantic ballads, his success has continued on as he entered new musical endeavors.
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Kike Santander
Dr. Flavio Enrique Santander Lora, commonly known as Kike Santander, is a Colombian composer, record producer, arranger and entrepreneur born in Santiago de Cali,Colombia in May 11, 1960 and he raised in La Flora, a typical upper middle class neighborhood of Cali. His father was doctor, poet and guitarist Flavio Santander and his mother is Judish. His brother is composer Gustavo Santander. In that city he spent his first years learning different rhythms and musical skills. He began his musical studies at an early age, playing the accordion and experimenting with instruments like guitar, piano, and later devoted himself to the interpretation of the electric bass. His earliest musical influences came from a wide mix of genres that include indigenous peoples of his native country, bolero, rock and roll, Anglo-American pop, classical music and jazz. He studied music at the Colombian Conservatory and he also graduated as a surgeon from a medical university. In 1978, when he was 18, he began his medical studies at the Central University of Valle del Cauca; institution in which he obtained the professional qualification in medicine and surgery, a career that he never exercised. Simultaneously he continued his musical studies in progress, improving his piano playing and studying music synthesis, arrangements and harmony. While he was studying medicine and music he started a business with his brother Gustavo,architect of the Javeriana, a processor and distributor of fish and seafood. After leave this work, he was established in Bogotá. In the city he was jazz bassist until he met producer Bernardo Ossa, who introduced him into the "big leagues" of advertising agencies, where he paid 300,000 pesos to invent songs that kept playing on any radio program listened to the Colombians in 1987. He devoted his time and effort to write and produces "commercial Jingles." This work earned him the credibility of the advertising agency which became the leading figure in this genre, Kike wrote and produced over 1500 jingles. In 1993, Kike began his career as a composer and producer, working for various artists such Colombians as Marcelo Cezan , for whom he wrote and produced the hits: " Una en un millón" (One in a million) and "Hierba Mojada" (Wet Grass). It was precisely in that year when Kike received his first award: This was the BMI for the songs "Boca Dulce Boca" (mouth sweet mouth) song he composed along with Stefano and José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma". It was then, and due to its already recognized talent, Kike Santander joined forces with Emilio Estefan Jr.. This experience marked the beginning officially on 7 January 1994 to consolidate his career as a composer and music producer.
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Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( ; born 28 May 1968), is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987. Her first single, "Locomotion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest selling single of the decade. This led to a contract with songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single "I Should Be So Lucky", each reached number one in the United Kingdom, and over the next two years, her first 13 singles reached the British top ten. Her debut film, The Delinquents (1989) was a box-office hit in Australia and the UK despite negative reviews.
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Latin Asia
Latin Asia is a term used to designate the countries of Asia that are heavily influenced by nations whose languages are one of the modern-day Romance Languages. Unlike the rest of the Latin world, Spanish, Portuguese and French are not the prevalent languages in daily speech. Rather, these are just one of the official languages of the country or territory. Others have even completely eliminated the official functions of the language yet these languages remain to be a strong minority.
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Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (), , (born 16 May 1974, Solarolo, Ravenna)[[#notea|[A]]] is an Italian singer-songwriter and record producer signed to Warner Music Group since 1993. Dubbed the "Queen of Italian pop" by entertainment news outlets, Pausini is famed for her soulful voice and romantic ballads. She is also known for multilingual music productions that span five languages—her native Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.
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Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born on April 19, 1970) is a Mexican singer, producer and songwriter.
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut, in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola, in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. In 1998, Carey received the World Music Awards for becoming the "World's Best Selling Recording Artist of the 1990's" as well as the award for "World's Best Selling R&B; Artist."
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Mario Domm
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.
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Regine Velásquez
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Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin (born Enrique Martín Morales on December 24, 1971) is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boyband Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.
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Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens (born Ricardo Esteban Valenzuela Reyes; May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959) was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Selena
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), known simply as Selena, was a Mexican American singer-songwriter. She was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard, for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits. The singer also had the most successful singles of 1994 and 1995, "Amor Prohibido" and "No Me Queda Más". She was called "The Queen of Tejano music" and the Mexican equivalent of Madonna. Selena released her first album, Selena y Los Dinos, at the age of twelve. She won Female Vocalist of the Year at the 1987 Tejano Music Awards and landed a recording contract with EMI a few years later. Her fame grew throughout the early 1990s, especially in Spanish-speaking countries.
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Selena Gomez
Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress and singer-songwriter best known for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Emmy Award winning Disney Channel Original Series Wizards of Waverly Place. She has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story and Princess Protection Program. In 2010, Gomez made her theatrical film debut as Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby in Ramona and Beezus.
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (, or ), is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese and is proficient in Italian.
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Thalía
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (born August 26, 1971), known simply as Thalía, is a Mexican singer, actress, and Latin Grammy Award nominee. Her name is linked to soap operas which made her famous worldwide. Thalía began her music career at the age of 9. Her soap operas have been watched by over 2 billion people in 180 countries. She is known globally as "the queen of soap operas" for being the biggest TV phenomenon in the decade of the 90s. Thalía has the keys of more than 50 cities in the world, and has toured in five continents, making her one of the most internationally famous Latin singers ever. Thalía has received more than 2000 awards throughout her career for both singing and acting and has sold over 25 million albums worldwide.
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Tomohisa Yamashita
, also widely known as Yamapi, is a Japanese idol, actor and singer. He is active as a solo artist and as a member of the Japanese boyband NEWS. Yamashita is often referred to as the leader of NEWS but Yamashita himself and other members of the group have stated that he is not the de facto leader of the group.
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Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1966) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards in her career and has sold 40 million records worldwide. She has a contralto vocal range.
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Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Chile (, in English often pronounced //,), officially the Republic of Chile ( ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. With Ecuador, it is one of two countries in South America which do not border Brazil. The Pacific coastline of Chile is 6,435 kilometres (4000 mi). Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island. Chile also claims about of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
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Colombia (), officially the Republic of Colombia (, ), is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime borders with Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico, the United States, and Spain.
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The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
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Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Portugal (, ), officially the Portuguese Republic (; ), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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Puerto Rico ( or ), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( — literally Associated Free State of Puerto Rico), is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.
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Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Uruguay (, ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (sometimes rendered as the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in the English language; , ), is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.4 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area. An estimated 88% of the population are of European descent.
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Venezuela (; ), officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Its roughly northern coastline includes numerous islands in the Caribbean Sea, and in the north east borders the northern Atlantic Ocean. Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Curaçao, Aruba and the Leeward Antilles lie near the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela's territory covers around with an estimated population of 26,414,816. Venezuela is considered a country with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
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- All The Lovers
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- ARIA Charts
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Coordinates | 55°45′06″N37°37′04″N |
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Name | Latin pop |
Bgcolor | maroon |
Color | white |
Stylistic origins | Latin musicPop rock |
Cultural origins | ItalySpainPortugalFranceRomaniaLatin AmericaLatin Asia(Philippines). |
Instruments | Spanish guitarAccordionBassDrums, keyboard, trumpettrombonepianoclavescowbelltimbalesconga |
Popularity | Latin AmericaSpainItalyPortugalFranceRomaniaUSACanadaUnited KingdomLatin Asia(Philippines) |
Derivatives | Tropipop |
Subgenrelist | List of popular music genres |
Fusiongenres | Chicano rockRock en Español |
Regional scenes | Americas: Brazilian popMexican popUS pop Europe: Italian musicPortuguese musicSpanish musicFrench musicRomanian music Latin Asia(the Philippines): Spanish musicHispano Filipino popItalian music |
Other topics | Pop culture }} |
Latin pop (Pop Latino, in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Pop Latine in French) generally refers to pop music that has what may be perceived a Latin American influence. Geographically, it could refer to pop music from Latin America or sung by Latin Americans, generally regarded as Hispanics in the United States. Occasionally, the definition extends to Latin Europe, primarily Spain and Portugal, though Italy is often included. Latin Asia(specifically the Philippines) should also be considered as well. Latin pop music is usually sung in Spanish or other Romance languages, although English and other languages are not uncommon. In addition, many international artists from France and Italy often sing in Spanish for Spanish language audiences. Major Latin pop songwriters include Leonel García, Gian Marco, Estefano, Kike Santander, Juan Luis Guerra, Mario Domm and Robi Draco Rosa.
Latin pop music
There are two main variants. The first one is regular pop performed in the Spanish, Spanglish, Portuguese or English for international audiences. The second one mixes pop with a wide variety of Latin American or Iberian rhythms such as salsa, samba, norteña, merengue, banda, tex-mex, flamenco, tango, reggaeton, vallenato, and reggae.
Latin pop artists
Latin pop is usually marked by polished productions while incorporating unobtrusive Latin rhythms and instrumentation into tracks. Latin pop first reached a global audience through the work of vocalist Ritchie Valens in the late 1950s; in later decades,Julio Iglesias, the versatile Gloria Estefan, Tejano singer Selena, the Mexican idol Luis Miguel and the boy band Menudo carried the style forward. Since the late 1990s, Latin pop and songs with significant Latin pop influences have achieved mainstream success in the United States and worldwide.
Major Latin pop artists | |
Luis Miguel is the best known Mexican people>Mexican singer of the last two decades, and the most popular Latin American singer of the 1990s. He is known in Latin America and Spain as "El Sol de México" (The Sun of Mexico). He has won four Latin Grammy Awards and five Grammy Awards. His Amarte Es Un Placer Tour had a length of 8 months and run through Mexico, USA, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil and Spain between 1999 and 2000. It was the highest-grossing tour ever made by a Latin artist, as well as the most extended. These two records were broken by his Mexico En La Piel Tour | |
Tejano singer, sang Tejano music and all sorts of Latin genres as well. After bypassing all the Tejano berriors she quickly earned the title "Queen of Tejano Music." Selena became the first Latin artist to have ever had 4 number ones in one year back in 1994. The four were Donde Quiera Que Estés, [[Amor Prohibido (song)">Amor Prohibido, Bidi Bidi Bom Bom and No Me Queda Mas. After her success in Spanish and even had a Grammy Award on her resume, Selena decided to work on her very first album in English. Unfortunately, Selena was murdered back in March 1995. Selena only recorded 4 songs for her crossover album and was schedule to have 13 songs in English for her album. The crossover album titled Dreaming of You was released in the summer of 1995. It quickly became an International Success. Selena's songs Dreaming of You and I Could Fall In Love quickly became Mainstream hits and the album became among the "Top ten best-selling debuts of all time" along with being the "best-selling debuts for a female artist" and Selena became the first Latin Artist male or female to have ever debuted at No. 1. | |
* Gloria Estefan's is a Grammy Awards | |
is a Grammy Award- and Latin Grammy Award- winning, his worldwide smash hit single “Livin' la Vida Loca” sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. alone, "Livin' la Vida Loca" is generally seen as the song that began the Latin pop explosion of 1999 and made the transition of other Latin artists (first Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias, then later Shakira and Thalía) into the English-speaking market easier. Before this time, most non-Latino Americans had never heard of Ricky Martin until what CNN reported was a show-stopping performance of "La Copa de la Vida" at the 41st Grammy Awards show, which became a catalyst in bringing Latin pop to the forefront of the US music scene. Martin rose to fame as a member of the Latin American boy band Menudo (band)>Menudo after which he became a solo artist in 1990. He is considered a major star in the world of Latin Pop and is considered to have opened the doors for some of his fellow (Latin American singers). On 2007, Martin received the star Hollywood Walk of Fame. Martin in 2011 returns to the Billboard 200 with the mostly-Spanish studio set "Musica + Alma + Sexo" starting at No. 3 with 32,000. "Musica" is the highest charting primarily-Spanish language set since Selena's No. 1 album "Dreaming Of You" spent its first three chart weeks lodged in the top three in 1995. | |
* Shakira's particularly with the most successful songs in the twenty-first century to date, "Whenever Wherever", "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) | |
Spanish singer, songwriter. Iglesias started his musical career with Mexican label Fonovisa, which helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latino market in the United States, selling more Spanish language albums than any other artist in that decade. By 1999 he made a succesful crossover into anglophone market signing a deal with Universal Music who released his English first single Bailamos which rode the front wave of the Latin Pop movement of that year, he released his first English album later in the year. His second English album [[Escape (Enrique Iglesias album)">Escape was his most succesful and featured what would become Iglesias's signiture ballad "Hero". With the release of Quizás he became the first latin artist to reach a million spins of US radio. Iglesias would continue to release albums in both languages until 2010 when he released his first bilingual album Euphoria with a 50/50 mix of original songs which popular singles such as "I Like It and "Cuando Me Enamoro". Iglesias has sold over 60 million albums worldwide, won a Grammy and Latin Grammy and has had two Billboard Hot 100 #1s,one #3, and two #4 and holds the record for producing 22 number #1 singles on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks, and 9 #1s Hot Dance Club Songs. In addition he is the best selling latin artist in the UK and the best selling international artist of all time in India. | |
Best-selling Latin artists
Some of the most successful artists are Juanes, Alejandro Fernández, Luis Miguel, José José, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, Thalía and Shakira. Julio Iglesias is regarded to date as the world's best selling Latin artists selling 100 million albums worldwide.{| class=wikitable style="font-size:100%;" |- ! style="background-color: #7f007f; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="2" width="200"| Artists ! style="background-color: #7f007f; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="2" width="150"| Country ! style="background-color: #7f007f; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="2" width="112"| Period ! style="background-color: #7f007f; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="2" width="250"| Genre ! style="background-color: #7f007f; color:#ffffff;" colspan="1" width="200"| Estimated sales ! style="background-color: #7f007f; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="2" width="75"| Reference |- ! style="background: #D3A7CB" width="200"|50 million to 200 million records |- | align=left| Enrique Iglesias | Spain | 1995-present | Pop/Latin-pop/Dance-pop |
Most-awarded Latin artists
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center; ! style="background-color: #8b6036; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="2" width="150"| Artists ! style="background-color: #8b6036; color:#ffffff;" colspan="2" width="750"| Different Types of Awards ! style="background-color: #8b6036; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="2" width="100"| Total Awards |- ! style="background-color: #8c7565; color:#ffffff;" width="350"|Latin Grammy Awards ! style="background-color: #8c7565; color:#ffffff;" width="350"|Grammy Awards (Latin specific categories) |- | align=left| Juanes |
Non-Latin pop artists that have performed in Spanish
{| class=wikitable style="font-size:100%;" |- ! style="background-color: #c02d2c; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="1" width="500"| Artists ! style="background-color: #c02d2c; color:#ffffff;" rowspan="1" width="500"| Latin pop hits |- |ABBA |ABBA Oro: Grandes Éxitos |- |Andrea Bocelli |Vivo por ella, Por ti Volaré, Somos Novios, Bésame Mucho |- |A*Teens |Dame, Dame, Dame |- |Backstreet Boys |Nunca Te Haré Llorar |- |Beyoncé Knowles |Irremplazable; Oye |- |Celine Dion |Amar Haciendo el Amor; Aún Existe Amor; Es Mejor Decir Adiós; Sola Otra Vez |- |De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig |Get Spanish |- |Demi Lovato |Lo Que Soy |- |Geri Halliwell |Mi Chico Latino |- |Hikaru Utada |Me Muero |- |Josh Santana(Hispano Filipino) |Historia de un Amor, Eres Tú |- |Kylie Minogue |Your Disco Needs You, Los Amores |- |Madonna |Verás, Lo Que Siente la Mujer |- |Mariah Carey |Héroe, El Amor que Soñé & Mi Todo |- |Michael Jackson | Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu, Todo para Tí |- |M2M |Todo lo Que Haces |- |'N Sync |Yo Te Voy a Amar |- |Rihanna |Te Amo |- |Regine Velásquez(Hispano Filipino) |Tú |- |Roxette |La Vida Sin Tí |- |Selena Gomez |Un Año sin Ver Llover |- |Spice Girls |Spice Up Your Life and Seremos Uno los Dos |- |Toni Braxton |Regresa a Mí & No Volveré a Respirar |- |Tomohisa Yamashita |Daite Señorita |- |}
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