''Controversia'' is an album by

Danny Rivera Danny Rivera (born 27 February 1945) is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter born in San Juan whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is well known in Puerto Rico for his political activism. In 2008, Rivera acquired Dominican Republic citizenship. ...

, Vicente Carattini y Los Cantores de San Juan and Alpha IV.Controversia at Buenamusica
/ref> This album was Danny Rivera's first Puerto-Rican-Christmas-Music album. The title song "Controversia" (''Controversy'') is about an argument between Danny and Vicente in which Vicente accuses Danny of stealing Christmas gigs from him by becoming a new Christmas-music singer. At the end of the song, vocalist Alma Galarza comes in to break up the "fight" and at the end they both make peace. In real life, however, Danny did steal something from Vicente. For his next album ''Ofrenda'' he wanted vocalist Alma Galaza (who had been singing with Vicente for 8 years) to be a special guest vocalist, but only if she quit Vicente and his group. Alma went with Danny with whom she recorded several albums and toured for several years. This album was dedicated to Puerto Rican composer Mario Enrique, who composed 3 song for the album. Despite the success of this album, it is no longer available on CD. The rights for this and other albums by Danny were bought by Disco Hit which in 2004 released a ''best of'' compilation called "20 Exitos Navideños" (''"20 Christmas Hits"'') which included 6 songs from ''Controversia'' and other songs from ''Ofrenda'', ''Mi Canción es Paz'' and ''Pido Paz.''

Album cover and name

The cover was inspired by

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. The comet has nothing to do with the title of the album or any of its songs. It is not clear if the photo is that of Halley's Comet or simply a made-up photo.

Track listing

Musicians

- lead vocals * Vicente Carattini - lead vocals * Alma Galarza (Vicente Carattini y Los Cantores de San Juan) - lead vocals and female dialog on "Trulla Pa' Tí"
(credited on the album simply as backing vocals) * José Gonzalez -

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, guitar * Jorge Hernandez -

requinto The term requinto is used in both Spanish and Portuguese to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument. Thus, there are ''requinto'' guitars, drums, and several wind instruments. Wind instruments ''Requinto'' was 19th-century ...

* Jorge Cancel - guitar * Chebin Perez - guitar * Javier Hernandez - bass, sinfonía, percusión * Pablo Figueroa - guiro * Lillian Colón - Venezuelan cuatro * Hector Rodriguez - plenera * Janet Hernandez (Vicente Carattini y Los Cantores de San Juan) - backing vocals * Marinés Colón - backing vocals

Production

*Musical arrangements: José Gonzalez, Javier Hernandez, Rei Peña, Alpha IV and Los Cantores de San Juan *Musical director - Javier Hernandez *Producers - Gladys Hernandez and Vicente Carattini *Recording engineers - Rei Peña and Javier Hernandez *Mixing - Javier Hernandez *Art and cover design - Heriberto Gonzalez *Distribution - Alpha Records

References

{{Authority control 1985 Christmas albums Danny Rivera albums Vicente Carattini albums