''4'' is the third studio album and fourth album overall by Mexican-American cumbia group A.B. Quintanilla y Los

Kumbia Kings The Kumbia Kings were a Mexican-American cumbia group from Corpus Christi, Texas, created by A.B. Quintanilla. Their music encompasses the styles of cumbia (hence their name), hip hop, and R&B. They produce songs in both Spanish and English. ...

and the third studio album by Mexican-American musician A.B. Quintanilla. It was released on February 25, 2003 by

EMI Latin Capitol Latin (formerly EMI Latin) is a brand of Universal Music Latin Entertainment, a division of Universal Music Group. Previously, it was a subsidiary of EMI. History In 1989, José Behar, the former head of CBS Discos, signed Selena to ...

. This album became their second number one album on the United States ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums chart. " No Tengo Dinero" song by

Juan Gabriel Alberto Aguilera Valadez (; January 7, 1950 – August 28, 2016), known professionally as Juan Gabriel (), was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. Colloquially nicknamed as Juanga () and El Divo de Juárez, Juan Gabriel was known for his f ...

original version on Juan Gabriel's debut album '' El Alma Joven'' in 1971. The album received a nomination for a

Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocals The Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocals was an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards between 2001 and 2011.The award was given to duos or groups for albums containing at least 51% of new recordings of ...

in 2003.

Track listing

This track listing from ''Billboard''.com

Personnel

Adapted from

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. ;Kumbia Kings *

A.B. Quintanilla III Abraham Quintanilla III (born December 13, 1963), known professionally as A.B. Quintanilla III or A.B. Quintanilla, is an American record producer, songwriter and musician, and the older brother of singer Selena, known as " The Queen of Tejano ...

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bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, backing vocals, arranger, producer, executive producer, mixing, composer * Jason "DJ Kane" Cano –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, arranger * Francisco "Frankie J" Bautista Jr. – vocals, arranger * Andrew "Drew" Maes – vocals * Anthony "Nino B" López – backing vocals, dancer * Juan Jesús "JP" Peña – backing vocals, dancer *

Cruz Martínez Cruz Martínez (born June 21, 1972) is an American record producer and musician. He is a former member of the Tejano band La Sombra. In 1999, he joined the cumbia music group Los Kumbia Kings, created by A.B. Quintanilla. In 2007, he created ...

– keyboards, arranger, programming, producer,

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

, mixing, composer *

Chris Pérez Christopher Gilbert Pérez (born August 14, 1969) is an American guitarist, best known as lead guitarist for the Tejano band Selena y Los Dinos. He married the frontwoman of the group, Selena, on April 2, 1992. Pérez grew up in San Antonio, Tex ...

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Alex Ramírez – keyboards * Roy "Slim" Ramírez – percussion, backing vocals * Noe "Gipper" / "El Animal" Nieto Jr. – accordion * Frankie Aranda –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

* Jesse "O'Jay" Martínez – drums ;Additional musicians and production * Rodney "Cortada" Alejandro – arranger * Nicolas Barry – arranger,

didjeridu The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by ...

, computers * Robert Becker –

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* Joel Derouin –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

* Wil Donovan – studio assistant * Erika Duke-Kirkpartick –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

* Eric Flores – saxophone *

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rap Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

(track 1) * James Gálvez – arranger * Humberto García –

* Jesse García – guitar * Emede González –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

El Gran Silencio El Gran Silencio is a rock en español band from Monterrey, Mexico that blends a variety of rock, reggae, dancehall, and hip-hop influences with traditional Latin American musical forms such as cumbia, vallenato and Norteño. Their lyrics te ...

– vocals (track 1) ** Tony Hernández – vocals ** Cano Hernández – rap ** Isaac "Campo" Valdez – accordion ** Marcos Martínez –

* Susan Jensen – violin * Tomas Jacobi – amanuensis * Peter Kent – violin * Gina Kronstadt – violin *

Limi-T 21 Limi-T 21 (sometimes spelled as Limi-T XXI) is a popular merengue group from Puerto Rico. The group was formed in 1990. The group consists of three members: Angel Ramiro Matos, Javier Bermúdez, and Elvin F. Torres Serrant. They released their fi ...

– vocals (track 14) * Maria Newman – viola * Dusty "DJ Dus" Oliveira – DJ cuts and scratches *

Organized Rhyme Organized Rhyme was a Canadian hip hop group based in Ottawa, Ontario. The group became one of the first Canadian rap acts to sign a record deal with a major label (A&M Records) and the video for their debut single "Check the O.R." won the MuchMu ...

s – vocals (track 10) *

Ozomatli Ozomatli is an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles. They are known both for their vocal activist viewpoints and incorporating a wide array of musical styles – including salsa, jazz, funk, reggae, hip hop, and others. The group ...

– vocals (track 7) ** Asdru Sierra – vocals,

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

** Raúl Pacheco – vocals,

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

, rhythm guitar ** Jiro Yamaguchi – conga, cymbals,

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, güira,

cowbell A cowbell (or cow bell) is a bell worn around the neck of free-roaming livestock so herders can keep track of an animal via the sound of the bell when the animal is grazing out of view in hilly landscapes or vast plains. Although they are t ...

** Justin "El Niño" Poree –

cuíca The cuíca () is a Brazilian friction drum with a large pitch range, produced by changing tension on the head of the drum. ''Cuíca'' is Portuguese for the gray four-eyed opossum (''Philander opossum'') which is known for its high-pitched cry. ...

timbales Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfico ...

repinique A repinique is a two-headed German drum used in samba ''baterias'' (percussion ensembles). It is used in the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo Carnival baterias and in the baterias of Bahia, where it is known as ''repique''. It is equivalent to th ...

* Charles Paakkari –

* Randy Stein –

Aleks Syntek Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña (born 29 September 1969), known by his stage name, Aleks Syntek, is a Mexican singer and songwriter. He has earned nine nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards, a Grammy nomination, five nominations for the MT ...

– vocals, keyboards (track 4) * Jean Rosenberg – contractor * Elvin F. Torres – producer, musical direction * Roger Vera –

* John Wittenberg – violin

Chart performance

Sales and certifications

References

{{Authority control 2003 albums Kumbia Kings albums A. B. Quintanilla albums Albums produced by A.B. Quintanilla Albums produced by Cruz Martínez EMI Latin albums Spanish-language albums Cumbia albums Albums recorded at Q-Productions