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Si El Norte Fuera El Sur
Si El Norte Fuera El Sur is the sixth studio album released on August 20, 1996, by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona. Reception The Allmusic review by Jason Birchmeier awarded the album 4.5 stars stating "All in all, it's Arjona's third classic album in a row, each distinct from its predecessor.".Birchmeier, JAllmusic Reviewaccessed September 1, 2011 Track listing All tracks by Ricardo Arjona # "Noticiero" (News Report) – 5:29 # "Tu Reputación" (Your Reputation) – 4:48 # "Ella y Él" (She And He) – 6:15 # "Se Nos Muere el Amor" (The Love is Dying on Us) – 4:07 # "Si el Norte Fuera el Sur" (If The North Was The South) – 4:55 # "Aún Te Amo (Carta No. 1)" (I Still Love You (Letter No.1)) – 3:33 # "Abarrotería de Amor" (Grocery Store of Love) – 3:41 # "Duerme" (Sleep) – 5:03 # "Te Acuerdas de Mí (Carta No. 2, 20 Años Después)" (Do You Remember Me (Letter No. 2, 20 Years Later) – 4:17 # "Cita en el Bar" (Date at The Bar) – 4:23 # "Me Enseñaste" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Arjona
Edgar Ricardo Arjona Morales (born 19 January 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona (), is a Guatemalan singer and songwriter. He is one of the most successful and best-selling Latin American artists of all time, with more than 20 million records sold. His music ranges from ballads to Latin pop, rock, pop rock, Cuban music, and more recently A capella, a cappella performances and a mixture of Tejano music and Norteño (music), Norteño music, and Latin music (genre), Latin sounds. Arjona is noted for his lyrical style, and often addresses topics such as love, sexuality, violence, racism and immigration. As of 2016, Arjona had released sixteen studio albums, one live album, nine compilation albums and forty-three singles. Four Arjona albums reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums, ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums, and ten reached number one in Argentina. Four albums had charted on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. Four singles had reached number one on the Billboard Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Laboriel
Abraham Laboriel López (born July 17, 1947) is a Mexican-American bassist who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. ''Guitar Player'' magazine called him "the most widely used session bassist of our time". Laboriel is the father of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and of producer, songwriter, and film composer Mateo Laboriel. Early life, family and education Laboriel was born in Mexico City. His brother was Mexican rock singer Johnny Laboriel, and his sister is Mexican singer, film and television actress Ella Laboriel. Their parents were Garifuna immigrants from Honduras. The family was devoutly Catholic. His father Juan José Laboriel started as a cab driver but in the 1920s became an integral part of the entertainment business in Mexico as a founding member of the actors', musicians', composers' and film workers' associations, eventually becoming involved in over 200 films in various capacities. Abraham received classical training as a guitarist, but he switch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Arjona Albums
Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic ''*rīks'' 'king, ruler' + ''*harduz'' 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname. People Given name * Ricardo de Araújo Pereira (born 1974), Portuguese comedian *Ricardo Arjona (born 1964), Guatemalan singer *Ricardo Arona (born 1978), Brazilian mixed martial artist *Ricardo Ávila (born 1997), Panamanian footballer * Ricardo Bierhals (born 1990), Brazilian footballer * Ricardo Bralo (1916–?), Argentine long-distance runner * Ricardo Bombine Pimentel (born 1978), Brazilian musician * Ricardo Bueno Fernández (1940-2015), Spanish politician * Ricardo Busquets (born 1974), Puerto Rican swimmer *Ricardo Cardeno (born 1971), Colombian triathlete *Ricardo Carvalho (born 1978), Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977), American actor * Ricardo Darín (born 1957), Argentine actor * Ricardo da Silva (born 1980), Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Esgaio, Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Albums
1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane 1996 Air Africa crash, crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, killing around 300 people. * January 9–January 20, 20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya. * January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan. * January 13 – Prime Minister of Italy, Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government. * January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal. * January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Grundman
Bernie Grundman (born 16 December 1943, Minneapolis) is an American audio engineer. He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, Joe Bozzi, and Mike Bozzi, mastered 37 projects which received Grammy Award nominations in 2005. In 1997, he opened a studio in Tokyo. Grundman and his studio have both won numerous TEC Awards, including Best Mastering Facility and several production awards. Previously, Grundman worked for Lester Koenig at Contemporary Records and then was head of the |
Benny Faccone
Benny Faccone is a recording engineer, mixing engineer, and record producer known for his work with Ricky Martin, Santana, Luis Miguel, Maná and Marco Antonio Solís. He has won 5 Grammy Awards and 12 Latin Grammy Awards. Biography Faccone was born in Italy and was raised in Canada. He received a composition degree from the Berklee College of Music. After graduation, he began working in the recording industry in Montreal and later moved to Los Angeles in 1980, where he became engineer at A&M Records. While mixing for the band Menudo, Faccone met Draco Rosa, member of the Puerto Rican boy band and with whom he continued working for the next decades. In 1986, Faccone became a freelance engineer. Faccone owns "The Cavern" studios in Thousand Oaks, California. He named the studio after The Cavern Club in Liverpool, where The Beatles played during their early career. He is also a professor at the California Lutheran University. Selected discography Awards and recognition Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robinson (drummer)
John Frederick Robinson (born December 29, 1954), known professionally as JR, is an American drummer and session musician who has been called "one of the most recorded drummers in history". He is known for his work with producer Quincy Jones, including Michael Jackson's multi-platinum ''Off the Wall'' album and the charity single "We Are the World". JR's drum fill kicks off Jackson's chart topper "Rock with You", and his drum solo opens the Steve Winwood album ''Back in the High Life'' (1986) to begin the number 1 song "Higher Love". ''Rolling Stone'' listed JR in 2016 at number 81 in their list of the top 100 "Greatest Drummers of All Time". He was awarded one Grammy Award for the Rufus (band), Rufus and Chaka Khan single "Ain't Nobody", but has played drums on more than fifty Grammy winning works. JR plays in many different styles. His first fame came with the funk band Rufus, and he recorded Dance music, dance/funk hits with the Pointer Sisters. In the Pop music, pop and Rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Landau
Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record-producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchell, Rod Stewart, Seal (musician), Seal, Michael Jackson, James Taylor, Helen Watson (singer / songwriter), Helen Watson, Luis Miguel, Richard Marx, Steve Perry (musician), Steve Perry, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins on "Two Hearts (Phil Collins song), Two Hearts" and "Loco in Acapulco", Roger Daltrey, Stevie Nicks, Glenn Frey, Eros Ramazzotti, Whitney Houston, and Miles Davis. Landau, along with fellow session guitarists Dean Parks, Steve Lukather, Michael Thompson (guitarist), Michael Thompson and Dann Huff, played on many of the major label releases recorded in Los Angeles from the 1980s-1990s. He has released music with several record labels, including Ulftone Music and Tone Center Records, a member of Shrapnel Records, Shrapnel Label Group. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Conte
Luis Conte (born 16 November 1954) is a Cuban percussionist best known for his performances in the bands of artists including James Taylor, Madonna, Pat Metheny Group, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart and Shakira. He began his music career as a studio musician for Latin Jazz acts like Caldera. Conte's live performance and touring career took off when he joined Madonna's touring band in the 1980s. Neil Strauss of The New York Times describes Conte's playing as "grazing Latin-style percussion". Conte immigrated to Los Angeles in 1967, where he attended Los Angeles City College studying music, and entrenched himself in the music community. Conte's career includes composing and playing in ABC TV's Dancing with the Stars band, along with many TV and film projects. Early years Conte was born in Santiago de Cuba. As a child, Conte began his musical odyssey playing the guitar. However, he soon switched to percussion, and that has remained his primary instrument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Birchmeier
Jason ( ; ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea, the granddaughter of the sungod Helios. Jason appeared in various literary works in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem ''Argonautica'' and the tragedy ''Medea''. In the modern world, Jason has emerged as a character in various adaptations of his myths, such as the 1963 film '' Jason and the Argonauts'' and the 2000 TV miniseries of the same name. Persecution by Pelias Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and sought to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the progeny of a union between their shared mother, Tyro ("high born Tyro"), the daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killing all the descendants of Aeson that he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
