''El Pequeño Mundo'' () is the nineteenth studio album and the fourth in Spanish language album by Brazilian recording artist Xuxa Meneghel. It was released in October 20, 1994 by Polygram (today

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Production

''El Pequeño Mundo'' was directed by Manuel Calderón and was produced by Michael Sullivan. The graphic design was under the command of

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and Reinaldo Waisman. Xuxa spent ten days in Miami recording his new album in Spanish. The song "Happy sí" that was composed by

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, who also participates in music, the singer had to travel to Miami to re-record the Spanish version of the song. ''El Pequeño Mundo'' is a Spanish version of Xuxa's tenth Brazilian studio album, '' Sexto Sentido'' (1994). The tracks of the album are basically composed by Spanish versions of some songs from the Brazilian album, such as "Grito de Guerra" by

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, and a

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of "O Pato" by

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, and the unpublished "Muy Pequeño El Mundo Es ", "Que Sí, Que No" and Voy a Salir de Reventón". the song "Grito de Guerra", by Chiclete com Banana, was also recorded in Portuguese to enter the album ''Sexto Sentido'', but only the Spanish version was released. The album also marks the change of international label of Xuxa, until then their albums were released by "Globo Records". This is the first Xuxa musical project released by Polygram/

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Release and reception

''El Pequeño Mundo'' was first released in

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in mid-October 1994, shortly after throughout Latin America, Spain and the United States. In

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, ''El Pequeño Mundo'' had positive sales reached the sixth position among the most sold in its first week, according to ''

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'' magazine.

Promotion

To promote the new album, Xuxa was in

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in mid-December 1994, and made two Pocket Shows in the programs ''

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'' and ''

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'' in

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. ''El Pequeño Mundo'' had sales of more than 120,000 copies.

Track listing

Personnel

*Art Direction: Manuel Calderón *Graphic design: Xuxa Meneghel and Reinaldo Waisman *Directed by: Michael Sullivan *Production Assistant: Tania Mahon *Xuxa's Spanish voice direction: Graciela Carballo *Voice Direction: Akiko Endo (Japanese), Ugo Chiarato (Italian), Corinne Merkin (French), Hagai Goian (Hebrew) *Adult Chorus Voice Recording: Crescent Moon Studio *Choir: Rodolfo Castillo, Georgina Cruz, César Nascimento, Jorge Noriega, Wendy Pederson and Rita Quinter *Voice and choir adult – engineer: Carlos Alvarez *Arrangement and preparation of keyboards: Marcello Azevedo *Electric guitar: César Nascimento *Arrangement of metals: Ed Calle and Rodolfo Castillo *Musicians: Ed Calle, Tony Concepción, Dana Teboe, Tim Barnes, Glenn Basham, Rafael Elvira, Joan Falgen, PH *Recording of children's choir: Art Sullivan Home Studio, Castle Recording Studio *Children's Choir: Anthony Carvajal, Giovanni de Paz, Juliana Lima, Maya Mingyar, Manuel Pascual, Jessy Lin Pole *Engineers: Marcello Azevedo, Alfredo Matheus, Carlos Alvarez *Assistants: Sebastian Krys, Alfredo Matheus *Metal engraving: A Studio *Mixed in Crescent Moon: by Antonio Moog Canazio *Photos: Luis Crispino *Costume Designer: Willis Ribeiro *Hair: Márcia Regina Elias *Makeup Department: Roberto Fernandes

Chart

Release history

References

External links

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