Brava! (brave!) is the tenth studio album by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio. It was released on November 15, 2011 by Universal Music Latino, and is her second bilingual album. The album's first single "Me Gustas Tanto" was released on September 13, 2011. This became Paulina Rubio's 5th single to top the Latin charts on Billboard.

According to different sources, the album has sold over 20,000 copies in the US and over 100.000 copies worldwide.^[1]

Background[link]

Production[link]

In early August 2010, Paulina talked on her first Twitcam about her upcoming projects including her next studio album. She said that her new album will be Spanglish and will include songs in Spanish and English. She also hoped that the first single of the new material would be released in the middle or the end of 2011. In May 2011, Paulina announced on Twitter that she and Moroccan/Swedish producer/songwriter RedOne are working together on new music in Madrid.^[2] Billboard.com reports that, "She's been working with RedOne and writing with Julio Reyes Copello, Casadiego, Espinoza Paz, Chino y Nacho and Claudia Brant."^{[citation needed]} She later confirmed that She also confirmed that RedOne is producing most of the 10 tracks on the standard edition, with some arrangements "between techno and rock band instruments like bass, drums and acoustic guitar."^[3]

She confirmed the titles of some of the tracks that will be on the album such as "Sabes Que Te Amo", "Hoy me toca a mí", which is a Spanglish duet with Taboo from The Black Eyed Peas.^{[citation needed]} She also confirmed "Olvidate de mí" and "Volvamos a empezar", which is a ranchera mixed with a rock style feel. And "Cásate con tu mamá", which is a song about a man with the Oedipus Complex Syndrome.^[4] Mexican composer Espinoza Paz confirmed that he worked with Paulina on a song titled "Me Voy".^[5] The song "Que Estuvieras Aquí" is a song dedicated to her father who died early in 2011.^{[citation needed]} As for the English songs, Universal Music confirmed two titles of two English songs, "All Around the World" and "Heat of the Night".^{[citation needed]} The album was recorded between New York, Los Angeles, Jamaica and Madrid. This is a new sound for Paulina as she is working with electronica and dance oriented music.^{[citation needed]}

Themes and influences[link]

Paulina stated that Brava! is a key expression of female admiration that hints us about the album being Paulina’s tribute to women in all their greatness and potential. ”The launch of this album comes at a time where I have more peace and feel more mature. The passing of a great pillar of my family and the birth of my first child have made me understand many things, especially the cycle of life and how important it is to celebrate it.” Paulina comments.^[6]

Paulina said that the reason she wanted to do a Spanglish album is that she wanted to mix the language of her home Mexico and the United States; "I grew up in Mexico, but I've always been between the United States and my country. This is all done with a wink and a nod to 'Spanglish' culture, which continues to grow and has a foot in both worlds," the singer said.^[3] She stated on a radio interview that this album would be different from all her other albums because being a mother and the death of her father have inspired her tremendously.^{[citation needed]}

Release[link]

Universal Music as well as Paulina Rubio confirmed that Brava! would be released on November 15 worldwide, one day after her son's 1st birthday. Paulina's official website stated that Brava! would be released on November 29, 2011 in Spain.

Chart performance[link]

In Mexico, the album debuted at #46 on pre-sales alone. The album officially debuted in the #5 position in Mexico. Brava debuted at #3 on the Billboard Latin Albums and #2 on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart. Brava debuted at #26 in Spain, #2 in Venezuela, #1 in Colombia, Uruguay and Chile and #3 in Peru. As of March, 6th Brava! earned a platinum certification in Colombia after three weeks at number one. ^[7]

Promotion[link]

Rubio began promoting "Brava" when she performed "Me Gustas Tanto" for the very first time in "Concierto EXA 3D" in Mexico City on October 22.^{[citation needed]} She also video chatted with her fans through Twitter, where many of her fans got the once in a life time chance to ask her questions about her upcoming album.^{[citation needed]} Rubio also attended the 12th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, while she didn't perform any songs from Brava! she did perform "Golpes en el Corazón" a duet with Los Tigres del Norte. Paulina also confirmed her participation in Televisa's TV show "La Voz…México".^{[citation needed]} Paulina Rubio will begin an extensive promotional tour that will take her through the United States as well as Spain before she goes on to start a world tour in early 2012. Paulina Rubio began her promotional tour by appearing and singing "Me Gustas Tanto" on the final episode of Mira Quien Baila.^{[citation needed]}

Tour[link]

In March 2012, Rubio started officially her the fourth solo concert tour Brava! Tour in support of this album.

Singles[link]

• "Me Gustas Tanto" (English: I Like You So Much) was released as the first single from the album. The song made its debut online as the lead single on September 2, 2011 and was made available for purchase on Amazon.com and iTunes on September 6, 2011, about a week before it was released as a digital single worldwide and sent to radio station globally. The song was written by Rubio, along with Nacho, from the Venezuelan duo Chino & Nacho and Andrés Recio, and it was produced by (Lady Gaga fame) RedOne. The song has been remixed several times. There is a remix that shows Paulina Rubio singing the song as a duet with an artist named Gocho. There is third version that was remixed by the group 3Ball MTY which has been popular with radio and fans alike.

• A re-worked version of Me voy featuring Espinoza Paz was released as the second single of the album on February 14, 2012. The official music video will be released on March 20, 2012. The song was released as the theme song of a telenovela named "El Talisman"^[8].

• "Heat of the Night" managed to debut at #46 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs without being released as a single and has so far peaked at #16. ^[9]

• A new English song titled "Boys will be Boys" was released in Europe on March 24, 2012. It's expected to be the leading single of either a new English album or a re-edition of Brava!, which is going to have many English songs as well. The song is also produced by RedOne, who also produced the music video of the single^[10]. The video was filmed in London. ^[11]

Track listing[link]

Charts[link]

Release history[link]

References[link]

Look up brava in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Brava may refer to:

• Brava, Cape Verde, a volcanic island
• Brava, Costa Rica, an island of Costa Rica (Isla Brava)
• Vauxhall Brava, a pickup truck
• Fiat Brava, a car
• Barawa, a town in Somalia commonly known as Brava
• Brava (beer), a brand of premium lager from the Lakeport Brewing Company.
• Brava!, an album by Paulina Rubio

People with the surname Brava:

• Linda Brava, Finnish violinist

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Vasco Rossi (born 7 February 1952), also known as Vasco or with the nickname Il Blasco, is an Italian singer-songwriter. During his career, he has published 26 albums (not including unofficial releases) and has written over 150 songs, as well as lyrics for other artists. He calls himself a "provoca(u)tore" (an Italian portmanteau for "provoking author") as throughout his career he has been regularly criticized over his choice of lifestyle and the lyrics in his songs.

Biography[link]

Vasco Rossi was born in Zocca, in the province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna). His father, Carlo Rossi, was a truck-driver, and his mother, Novella, a housewife. It was his mother herself who decided to enroll him in singing school when he was a little boy, a choice that must have seemed rather peculiar within the mentality of a small village in the Apennines like Zocca. Nonetheless, Rossi fell in love with music and at the age of 14 began playing with his first band.

Rossi and his family moved to Bologna, Italy, where he studied accounting in high school. Upon graduating he opened a music club, Punto Club, and enrolled in university at the faculty of Economics and Business. In the meantime he supported himself by working as a DJ and founding, along with friends, one of the first private radio stations in Italy, "Punto Radio", with which he began slowly and timidly showcasing his own songs.

Encouraged by his friend Gaetano Curreri (now leading member of Italian rock band Stadio), Rossi released his first EP on 13 June 1977, which included the songs "Jenny è pazza" (Jenny is crazy) and “Silvia", and a full-length album in 1978, Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone ("What do you think a song is"). In 1979, he released a second album, Non siamo mica gli americani ("It's not, like, we are the Americans"), which included, "Albachiara" ("Cleardawn"), one of his biggest hits, and a ballad considered emblematic of Rossi’s poetic style. His most controversial album, Colpa d'Alfredo ("Alfredo's fault") followed in 1980; its title-track was censored from the radio and let loose bitter criticism because it contained some lyrics referring to women considered too explicit at that time. The controversy actually increased Rossi’s popularity, and he quickly saw himself famous on a national level, particularly after performing live on Domenica In, a popular Italian television program. The performance did not particularly please journalist Nantas Salvalaggio, who published a scathing article against Rossi calling him drug-addict. Rossi argued that Salvalaggio evidently did not understand his music and remarked how easy it is to criticize a still unknown artist who cannot defend himself.

In 1981, the album Siamo solo noi ("It's only us") was released. The title track, another signature song of his, would become commonly recognized as a generational hymn.

In 1982, Rossi took part for the first time in the Sanremo Music Festival, performing the song "Vado al massimo" ("I'm taking it to the max"). Here, he once again found himself under the harsh criticism, and came in last place in the festival. In April of the same year the album Vado al Massimo was released. The following year, he reappeared at the Sanremo Music Festival, this time performing “Vita spericolata" (Daredevil Life), probably his most popular song, and finishing in second-to-last place due to his apparent state of intoxication. The following album, Bollicine ("Little Bubbles"), published in 1983, was his sixth in seven years, and was the album that consecrated him definitively an idol of the new generation and an icon of Italian rock. The title track, whose lyrics are about Coke (but also demonstrate a clear assonance with cocaine), won the Festivalbar ‘83, and his tour that year was an enormous success.

To celebrate this positive period in his career, Rossi released his first live recording in 1984, Va bene, va bene così ("It’s alright, it’s alright this way"). In April, however, he was arrested on charges of drug possession. He was immediately granted provisional release from jail, but subsequently sentenced to 2 years and 8 months of probation. Shortly thereafter he released his next album, Cosa succede in città ("What goes on in town"), which became one of his weakest critically and did not reach past sales.

In 1987 Vasco Rossi’s ninth album, C'è chi dice no ("There Are Some Who Say ‘No’"), was released; the ever-increasing numbers of fans showing up to his concerts forced him to quit performing in clubs and normal-sized venues and begin the era of something for which he is known to this day—playing in and selling out big arenas and stadiums.

His tenth studio album, Liberi liberi ("[we are] Free, Free"), followed in 1989. The success of his 1989 tour brought the release of the live album Fronte del palco (a pun of the Italian title of Marlon Brando's film "Waterfront" which was "Fronte del porto", and thus meaning "Stage Front") and the organization of two concerts in 1990, one at the San Siro stadium in Milan and the other at the Flaminio in Rome.

Rossi's next album, Gli spari sopra ("The shots above"), released in 1993, went platinum ten times. The title track, which was a major hit, is a cover version of Celebrate by the Irish band An Emotional Fish. In 1994 he gave the unreleased "Senza Parole" ("Without Words") as a gift to members of his official fan-club.

In 1995, Rossi was again the star at San Siro with a double concert, Rock sotto l'assedio ("Rock under siege"), which protested the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Rossi invited a few Bosnian bands like Sikter, Lezi Majmune and Protest to perform but was heavily criticized by the press because the proceeds weren't given to charity, despite the fact they were never meant to.

In 1996, Rossi recorded a new studio album, Nessun Pericolo... Per Te ("No Danger... For You"), featured songs “Sally” and "Gli angeli" ("The Angels"), (the video of the latter was directed by Roman Polanski).

In 1998 Rossi rediscovered his singer-songwriter side, recording and releasing the album Canzoni per me ("Songs for me") with a softer and less “rock” sound, even remaking never-published songs written at the beginning of his career. The nature of the songs, however, did not impede Rossi from winning his second Festivalbar with the song, "Luna per te" ("Moon for you"). Given the low propensity of these songs to fit in his live show with the songs his fans had up to that time become accustomed, he decided to hold just one concert in 1998, accepting the proposal to be a guest star on the first evening of the new Heineken Jammin' Festival in Imola, Italy. The evening is immortalized in both video and in the 1999 live album Rewind. A few days into the tour, Rossi’s inseparable friend, as well as guitarist and writer/cowriter of many songs and lyrics, Massimo Riva, died unexpectedly. He would be remembered and celebrated by Rossi and fans in nearly every concert that followed.

In 2001, Stupido Hotel ("Stupid Hotel"), was released, and Rossi won his third Festivalbar, this time with the song “Siamo Soli” ("We are alone"). In 2002 Rossi released his first official recording of remastered songs in their original version, Tracks, which was followed by three sold-out performances at San Siro Stadium in Milan. His album Buoni o cattivi ("Good or Bad Ones") was the most successful album in Italy in 2004.

On 12 May 2005, Milan’s IULM conferred an honorary degree in Communication Sciences to Vasco Rossi.

On 9 September 2005, Rossi released the double DVD È solo un Rock'n'Roll show ("It’s Only a Rock’n’Roll Show") with Andrea Lehotská, launching the concept of the ‘movieclip,’ in which all the songs from Buoni o cattivi (Good or Bad [guys])’ are used in a 2-hour long music video. Three months later, Buoni o cattivi live anthology 04.05 was released, a comprehensive box-set comprising a double CD and a triple DVD, recorded live from the record-setting Buoni o cattivi tour of 2004 and 2005. In December 2005 he returned to his home town of Zocca, , where his childhood friends and the rest of the community organized a tribute in his honor, including a photo display and other celebrations.

In 2007, he released the "Vasco Extended Play", that contains the hit single "Basta Poco" ("A Little Is Enough"). The EP topped the Italian FIMI Charts for 21 Weeks, making that the Italian best-selling single of 2007 thus far.

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In late 2009, SingStar Vasco Rossi was released.

On 4 May 2010 the "Corriere della Sera" reported Vasco Rossi as saying the American and British governments had been responsible for preventing him and other Italian musicians from becoming known in those countries. “Just as Bob Dylan was banned from playing in China, for 20 years I was barred from London. … It’s one of the many ‘presents’ that America left us after World War II. To favour the sale of American and British music to Italy and discourage the export of our talents abroad.”

In June 2011 Rossi announced he would be retiring from touring and live work although would continue to work in the music business. ^[1]

During 2011, Vasco's lawyers threatened to undertake legal actions against popular Italian satire website "Nonciclopedia", the italian version of Uncyclopedia, arguing that the rock star was offended by the contents of the page about him. On October 3rd 2011 the website shut down after repeated inquiries from the police to the site's admins. The news promptly ran across the web via thousands of tweets, blogposts and eventually spread on some Italian newspapers. ^[2][3]

He is an atheist^[4].

Official discography[link]

LPs[link]

• <<..Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone>> (1978)
• Non siamo mica gli americani (1979)
• Colpa d'Alfredo (1980)
• Siamo solo noi (1981)
• Vado al massimo (1982)
• Bollicine (1983)
• Va bene, Va bene così (1984)
• Cosa succede in città (1985)
• C'è chi dice no (1987)
• Liberi... Liberi (1989)
• 10.7.90 San Siro (1990)
• Fronte del palco (1990)
• Gli spari sopra (1993)
• Nessun pericolo... Per te (1996)
• Rock (1997)
• Canzoni per me (1998)
• Rewind (1999)
• Stupido Hotel (2001)
• Vasco Rossi Tracks (2002)
• Buoni o Cattivi (2004)
• Buoni o cattivi - Live Anthology 04.05 (2005)
• Il mondo che vorrei (2008)
• Vasco Rossi Tracks 2 (inediti & rarità) (2009)
• Vasco London Instant Live (2010)
• Vivere o niente (2011)
• L'altra metà del cielo (2012)

EPs and singles[link]

• "Jenny / Silvia" (1977)
• "La nostra relazione / ... E poi mi parli di una vita insieme" (1978)
• "Albachiara / Fegato, fegato spappolato" (1979)
• "Non l'hai mica capito / Asilo repubblic" (1980)
• "Voglio andare al mare / Brava" (1981)
• "Splendida giornata Remix" (1982)
• "Vado al massimo / Ogni volta" (1982)
• "Vita spericolata / Mi piaci perchè" (1983)
• "Brava Giulia / Blasco Rossi" (1987)
• "Non mi va Remix" (1987)
• "Gli spari sopra (Hard Attack Mix) / Delusa (Mode Mix) / Delusa (Club Mix)" (1993)
• "Gli spari sopra (Celebrate)/Delusa (Rock Party Mix) /Se è vero o no/ L'uomo che hai di fronte (B. Mix)" (1993)
• "Senza Parole Remix" (1994)
• "Senza Parole" (1994)
• "Vasco Remixed" (1996)
• "Gli angeli" (1996)
• "Praticamente perfetto Remix / Io Perderò Remix" (1996)
• "Quanti anni hai" (1998)
• "L'una per te" (1998)
• "Io no" (1998)
• "Rewind (single)" (1998)
• "La fine del millennio" (1999)
• "Buoni o Cattivi (single)" (2004)
• "Come Stai (single)" (2004)
• "Buoni o Cattivi Remix" (2004)
• "Un senso (single)" (2004)
• "Anymore (single)" (2004)
• "E... (single)" (2005)
• "Cosa vuoi da me remix" (2005)
• "Vasco Extended Play" (2007)
• "Basta poco" (2007)
• "Il mondo che vorrei (single)" (2008)
• "Gioca con me Remix" (2008)
• "Colpa del Whisky Remix" (2009)
• "Sto pensando a te" (2009)
• "Ad ogni costo" (2009)
• "Ho fatto un sogno" (2010)
• "Eh... già" (2011)
• "I soliti" (2011)
• "Manifesto futurista della nuova umanità" (2011)

DVDs[link]

• Rewind (1999)
• Vasco Rossi Tracks (2002)
• Vasco Rossi @ S. Siro 03 (2003)
• E' Solo Un Rock'N' Roll Show (2005)
• Buoni O Cattivi Live Anthology (2005)
• Fronte Del Palco - Live 90 (2006)
• Gli Spari Sopra Tour (2006)
• Vasco@Olimpico.07 27.28 giugno sold out (2007)
• Vasco Rossi. Il mondo che vorrei. Live (2008)

References[link]

1. ^ End of the road for rockstar Vasco Italy for Beginners, 27-06-2011
2. ^ "Vasco, ti presento l'Effetto Streisand". Attivissimo.blogspot.com. 2009-03-02. http://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2011/10/nonciclopedia-sospesa-avrebbe-diffamato.html. Retrieved 2011-11-08. 
3. ^ "Vasco fa chiudere Nonciclopedia La rete: «Mito di cartapesta»". Unita.it. 2008-09-20. http://www.unita.it/culture/vasco-fa-chiudere-nonciclopedia-br-la-rete-mito-di-cartapesta-1.337942. Retrieved 2011-11-08. 
4. ^ Il gionale, 11th August, 2011.

External links[link]

• Official website