''MTV Unplugged'' is the first

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recorded by Mexican singer-songwriter

Julieta Venegas Julieta Venegas Percevault (; born 24 November 1970) is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer who specializes in pop-rock-indie music in Spanish. She embarked on her musical journey by joining several bands, including the ...

. The album features a selection of her greatest hits, along with new tracks, including the singles "El Presente" and "Algún Día". A handful of guest artists was included:

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Natalia Lafourcade María Natalia Lafourcade Silva (; born 26 February 1984) is a Mexican singer and songwriter who performs in genres such as pop rock, jazz, and folk music. Since her debut in 2002, she has been one of the most influential singers in Latin Americ ...

, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, La Mala Rodríguez. This album received the Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and the DVD released from this live performance also won for Latin Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. " El Presente" was nominated for

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and Song of the Year.

Album history

The live performance of this album was recorded in

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, on March 6, 2008 at the Estudios Churubusco, before 450 fans. This show was broadcast on July 5, 2008 through

MTV Latin America MTV is a Latin American pay television network that was launched on 1 October 1993 as the Hispanic American version of MTV. It is owned by Paramount Networks Americas, a subsidiary of Paramount Global. The channel broadcasts music videos as ...

, and premiered on June 12, 2008 on the MTV Tr3s. The recording includes collaborations from La Mala Rodríguez performing the hip-hop section of " Eres para mí"; two-time Oscar-winner

playing

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on "Algún día";

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ian singer

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performing in "Ilusion", a brand new song in Spanish and Portuguese; Jaques Morelenbaum participating in "Como sé"; and

included as a part of Venegas's band. Julieta Venegas played the

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, and

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. On the track "Esta vez", the Cuarteto Latinoamericano is included, and Juan Son (from the band

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) joined Venegas on "De mis pasos". The violet dress that the artist wore during the performance was designed by Andrés Jiménez. Jose Tillan served as the executive producer and producer (along with Michael Dagnery) for MTV Networks.

Track listing CD and DVD

The track listing by iTunes Store Mexico.

Personnel

* Gustavo Borner: Recording engineer, mixing, mastering. Mixed at: Igloo Music (

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) * Juan Pablo Falluca: Mobile recording * Juan Carlos Ertze: Recording assistant * Gabriel Castanon: Recording assistant * Daniel Castillo: Recording assistant * Alberto Rodríguez: Recording assistant * Joseph Greco: Mixing assistant * Justin Moshkevich: Mixing assistant * Nikolai Baxter: Mixing assistant * Guillermo Gutiérrez: A&R direction * Gilda Oropeza: A&R * Charlie García: Coordination * Reyna Espinoza: Coordination ''Live crew'' * Claudio Jiménez: Sound engineer * Marco López: Sound engineer * Marcos Juache:

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* Kike Sánchez: Stage * Liz Gil: Stage manager * Mannu Mannucci: Tour & personal manager ''Design'' * Alejandro Ros:

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* Silvia Canosa:

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* Enrique Covarrubias: Cover photography * Nicolás Turchetto: Back cover and live photos * Yvonne Venegas: Rehearsal photos * Karla Ortíz:

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* Lorena Ortíz: Assistant * Juan Chialvo: Assistant * Corina Figueroa: Assistant

Musicians

* La Mala Rodríguez: Vocal on "Eres Para Mí" * Gustavo Santaollala:

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and vocal on "Algún Día" * Juan Son: Vocal on "De Mis Pasos" * Marisa Monte: Vocal on "Ilusión" * Jaques Morelenbaum:

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on "Cómo Sé" * Cecilia Bastida:

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rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

clavinet The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds with rubber pads, each matching one of the keys and respond ...

glockenspiel The glockenspiel ( ; or , : bells and : play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a Musical keyboard, keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the v ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

* Natalia Lafourcade:

Vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

, timple,

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, glockenspiel, clavinet, vocals * Mariana Baraj:

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, vocals * Sol Pereyra:

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cuatro Cuatro, Spanish (and other Romance languages) for the 4, number 4, may refer to: * Cuatro (instrument), a family of Latin American string instruments, including: ** Cuatro (Venezuela) ** Puerto Rican cuatro * Cuatro (TV channel), a Spanish free-to ...

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, vocals * Edy Vega:

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, percussion * Ariel Cavalieri:

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* Silvano Zetina:

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, timple,

vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t ...

, cavaquinho * Juan Martín Medina:

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, guitar * Leandro Guffanti:

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saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

* Alejandro Díaz:

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* Aron Bitran:

Violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

* Saúl Bitran: Violin * Javier Montiel: Viola * Alvaro Bitran: Cello * Julieta Venegas: Lead vocals, piano,

and guitar.

Chart and certifications

The album debuted at number 61 on the Mexican album charts, climbing to number-one the following week where it spent 10 consecutive weeks, replacing '' Para Siempre'' by

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and being replaced by ''

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'' by

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. ''MTV Unplugged'' received a gold certification in México after two weeks of its release. In

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debuted and peaked at number 9 on the ''Billboard'' Top Latin Albums and at number 169 on the ''Billboard'' 200. It also peaked within the Top 20 in Spain and at number 39 in Switzerland.

Weekly charts

Certifications

Year-end chart

Awards

Latin Grammy Awards

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Latin Billboard Awards

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Release history

References

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