Romances (Luis Miguel album)

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For the 1991 album, see Romance (Luis Miguel album).

Romances
A black and white photography of Miguel dressed in a tuxedo looking at the camera
Studio album by
Luis Miguel
Released12 August 1997 (1997-08-12)
Recorded1997
StudioOcean Way Recording
(Hollywood)
The Hit Factory
(New York City)
GenreBolero
Length54:05
LanguageSpanish
LabelWEA Latina
ProducerLuis Miguel
Luis Miguel chronology
Nada Es Igual...

(1996) 		Romances
(1997) 		Amarte Es un Placer
(1999)
Singles from Romances
  1. "Por Debajo de la Mesa"
    Released: 15 June 1997
  2. "El Reloj"
    Released: 1997
  3. "Contigo (Estar Contigo)"
    Released: 1997
  4. "De Quererte Así (De T'Avoir Aimee)"
    Released: 1998
  5. "Bésame Mucho"
    Released: 1998
  6. "Sabor a Mí"
    Released: 1998

Romances is the twelfth

arranger Bebu Silvetti, and Armando Manzanero, who directed all of Miguel's Romance albums. Romances consists of twelve cover versions
and two new compositions by Manzanero and Silvetti. Recording took place in early 1997 at the Ocean Way recording studio in Los Angeles, California.

Romances has sold over 4.5 million copies and received platinum certifications in several Latin American countries, the United States and Spain. Miguel promoted the album by touring the United States, Latin America and Spain. Upon its release, Romances received generally positive reviews from music critics. They mainly praised his vocals and production of the album although few reviewers found the arrangements to be repetitive and the record too similar to its predecessors. The album earned Miguel several awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance in the United States. Six singles were released: "Por Debajo de la Mesa", "El Reloj", "Contigo (Estar Contigo)", "De Quererte Así (De T'Avoir Aimee)", "Bésame Mucho", and "Sabor a Mí".

Background

In 1991 Miguel released Romance, a collection of classic Latin ballads, the oldest of which dates back to the 1940s. The album was produced by Armando Manzanero and arranged by Bebu Silvetti,[1] and was credited for revitalizing the bolero genre.[2] It also made history as the first Spanish-language album to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States.[3] A follow-up to Romance was released in 1994 under the title Segundo Romance (Second Romance), which was produced by Miguel, Juan Carlos Calderón and Kiko Cibrian.[4] Both albums received a platinum certification by the RIAA in the United States and also became successful in countries outside of Latin America and the United States, such as Finland and Saudi Arabia,[5] selling over twelve million copies combined.[5][6][7]

In December 1996 Miguel held a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he announced his desire to record a third Romance album and mentioned the possibility of working with Manzanero and Juan Gabriel. He also expressed an interest in singing in Italian and Portuguese,[8] although the album's songs are originally all in Spanish. Two months later Manzanero confirmed that he was working with Miguel on another bolero-inspired ballads album, under the tentative title Tercer Romance ("Third Romance").[9] Miguel's record label confirmed that fourteen tracks would be included on the album under the title Romances.[10]

Recording and musical style

A man is smiling to the right.
Luis Miguel worked with Armando Manzanero and Bebu Silvetti on the recording of Romances.

Miguel collaborated with Silvetti for the arrangement of Romances, while Manzanero was in charge of direction.[11] Recording began on 18 March 1997,[12] at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood and at The Hit Factory in New York City.[13] During the recording of Romances, as in Romance, Silvetti employed his signature style of arrangements known as the "Silvetti Sound", which Leila Cobo of Billboard describes as "anchored in sweeping melodies, lush string arrangements, acoustic instrumentation, and above all, unabashed romanticism".[14] Silvetti has stated that when he produces an album he does not simply copy his own arrangements, because he feels that would be "ridiculous", and prefers to be creative within his own style.[14] About the selection of songs for the album, Manzanero stated that "I give [Miguel] the songs, and he chooses what he wants to record."[15] Participants in the recording sessions included sixty-one musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.[16]

Miguel covers twelve ballads in Romances, including songs by José Antonio Méndez, Carlos Arturo Briz, Consuelo Velázquez Álvaro Carrillo, Roberto Cantoral, María Grever, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Agustín Lara.[1][4] He also covers songs from other musical styles including tango ("Uno"), bossa nova ("Mañana de Carnaval"), and French ("De Quererte Así").[17] Miguel had performed some of the aforementioned composers' songs on his previous Romance albums. Miguel recorded Manazero's songs "Voy a Apagar la Luz/Contigo Aprendí" ("I Am Going To Turn Off The Lights/With You I Learned") and "Amanecer" ("To Be Awake").[18] The two original compositions were "Por Debajo de la Mesa" ("Underneath the Table") by Manzanero and "Contigo (Estar Contigo)" ("To Be With You") by Bebu Silvetti and Sylvia Riera Ibáñez.[18]

Promotion

Main article: Romances Tour

Miguel launched his

National Auditorium, where it was the highest-grossing concert by a Latin artist that year.[22] The tour also traveled to South America; including Chile, and Argentina; and continued until May 1998, when Miguel performed throughout Spain.[23] Miguel was the first Latin artist to be inducted to the Pollstar "Top 20 All-Time Grossing Tours" for most tickets sold for consecutive concerts at one venue in 1997.[24]

Singles

Luis Miguel "Sabor a Mí"
An 18 second sample of Luis Miguel's cover of "Sabor a Mí" which "retains some of its exotic, flamenco guitar-fueled flavor".[25] The song tells of a "sentiment that while true love didn't last, it was a good love".[26]
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"Por Debajo de la Mesa" was released as the

radio airplay on 15 July 1997, and reached number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart two months later; it would spend twenty-six weeks on the chart.[27][28] The music video for the song was filmed at the Rainbow Room in New York City and was directed by Daniela Federici.[29] The second single released, "El Reloj" ("The Clock"), reached number two on the Hot Latin Songs chart,[30] as did the third single, "Contigo (Estar Contigo").[31] "De Quererte Así (De T'Avoir Aimee)" peaked at number twenty-three on the Hot Latin Songs chart,[32] while "Sabor a Mí" ("Taste From Me") peaked at number six after its release.[33] "Bésame Mucho" ("Kiss Me More") reached number one on the Mexican singles chart and was the among top ten best-performing songs of 1998 in Venezuela according to Record Report.[34]

Critical reception and accolades

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[11]
Chicago Tribune[35]
Los Angeles Daily News[36]
Los Angeles Times[37]
The San Diego Union-Tribune[38]
The Sydney Morning Herald[39]

Upon its release, Romances was met with mostly positive reviews by music critics. Terry Jenkins of

Trio Los Panchos requinto "cling" endings."[41] Mario Tarradell of The Dallas Morning News wrote an unfavorable review of the recording; he criticized its productions for having all the tracks "awash in silky keyboards and airy strings with just a hint of percussion in the background". He also panned its lead single "Por Debajo de la Mesa" for coming off as a "love song for the chaste" due to its arrangements being "so stifling, so precious, it's difficult to feel any sensuality".[25] Luis M. Garcia of The Sydney Morning Herald referred to the album as a "lush, expensive recording", stating, "he has taken a basketful of classic, romantic boleros, updated some, rearranged others and come up with a fairly acceptable collection of what marketers would probably call 'songs for lovers'... Smooth? Syrupy? Over the top? You bet. But then again, what would you expect from a disc called Romances?".[42]

Los Angeles Times editor Ernesto Lecnher gave the album one-and-a-half out of four stars and claimed that Romances "sinks under its own weight, delivering mostly bloated versions of timeless material".[37] Fellow Los Angeles Times contributor Ed Morales disagreed with his review: "Lechner needs to go into his music room, turn down the lights, snuggle up with his significant other and really listen to 'Romances.' I give his review * and 'Romances' ****" .[43] Anne Valdespino of the Los Angeles Daily News praised the selection of songs and Miguel's performance, calling the performer a "class act".[36] The San Diego Union-Tribune music critic Ernesto Portillo Jr. rated Romances three-out-of four stars and claimed that Miguel's "interpretations are first-rate and the music, with production help from famed composer Armando Manzanero, is executed with exquisite precision". However, he questioned the need for a third in the Romance series as he felt it "diminishes the specialness" of Romance and Segundo Romance noted that not all tracks in the album are "true boleros".[38] El Nuevo Herald editor Eliseo Cardona wrote a mostly positive review of the album. He complimented Miguel's vocals and the productions but stated that Miguel's interpretation of "La Gloria Eres Tu" "pales" compared to Lucho Gatica and José José's cover of the song.[44] Ramiro Burr of the San Antonio Express-News said Romances "sparkles with the joy of visiting good friends" and lauded its "timeless music, beautiful orchestration" and complimented Silvetti's arrangements. Burr commented while "we've heard all these classics before, and seemingly a million times" Miguel "does it so well, it hardly seems to matter."[26]

At the 40th Annual Grammy Awards in the 1998, Miguel won the award for Best Latin Pop Performance.[45] Miguel also received a Billboard Latin Music Award for "Male Pop Album of the Year" and a World Music Award for "Best Selling Latin Artist" in the same year.[2][46] Miguel received a Premio Amigo and Premio Onda for "Best Latin Singer of the Year" in Spain,[3] and the album was nominated for a Premio Amigo for "Best Latin Album".[47]

Commercial performance

The album was released on 12 August 1997, in the United States and, by the week of 23 August 1997, it debuted at number two on the

PROMUSICAE chart and was certified nonuple platinum, selling over 900,000 copies.[59][60][61] In South America the album was certified gold in Brazil, Platinum in Ecuador and Peru, double platinum in Colombia and Paraguay, sextuple platinum in Venezuela,[55] octuple platinum in Chile, and diamond in Argentina.[3][62] According to the Guinness World Records Romances was the best-selling Spanish-language album of 1997.[63] A DVD-Audio for the album was released in 2001.[64] Over 4.5 million copies of the album were sold in 53 countries, as of 1999.[65][66][67]

Legacy

Warner Music released a three-disc compilation album titled Todos Los Romances ("All The Romances") in 1998, which contains all the tracks from Miguel's Romance albums.[68] The album peaked at number twelve in the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and at number six in the Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart.[69] It was certified gold in Argentina.[70] Romances was followed by one more bolero album, Mis Romances (2001) which was produced by Miguel.[71]

Track listing

Romances track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Year of composition[13]Length
1."Voy a Apagar la Luz / Contigo Aprendí"Armando Manzanero
  • 1960
  • 1967
4:11
2."Sabor a Mí"Álvaro Carrillo19593:06
3."Por Debajo de la Mesa"Manzanero19973:05
4."La Gloria Eres Tú"José Antonio Mendez19523:21
5."Amanecer"Manzanero19783:31
6."Encadenados"Carlos Arturo Briz19563:59
7."Bésame Mucho"Consuelo Velázquez19415:26
8."Contigo (Estar Contigo)"
19974:11
9."Noche de Ronda"Agustín Lara19404:16
10."El Reloj"Roberto Cantoral19563:02
11."Júrame"María Grever19593:57
12."De Quererte Así (De T'Avoir Aimee)"
19583:14
13."Uno"
  • Enrique Santos Discepolo
  • Marianito Mores
19434:48
14."Mañana de Carnaval (Manhã de Carnaval)"
  • Luiz Bonfá
  • Antonio Maria (adapt.)
  • Jesus María Arozamena
19604:07

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic and the Romances liner notes:[13][18]

Performance credits

Technical credits

Charts

Certifications and sales

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[62] Diamond 781,000[58]
Bolivia[3] 2× Platinum 20,000[78]
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[80] Gold 200,000[79]
Central America (CFC)[55] 4× Platinum 100,000[81]
Chile (
IFPI)[3]
 8× Platinum 433,000[82]
Colombia (
ASINCOL)[55]
 2× Platinum 88,000[83]
Ecuador (
IFPI)[55]
 Platinum 15,000[84]
Mexico (AMPROFON)[85] 4× Platinum+2× Gold 1,675,000[86]
Paraguay (
IFPI)[55]
 2× Platinum 20,000[84]
Peru (
IFPI)[55]
 Platinum 10,000[84]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[59] 9× Platinum 1,000,000[65]
United States (RIAA)[56] Platinum 687,000[53]
Venezuela (
APFV)[55]
 6× Platinum 120,000[84]
Summaries
Argentina & Mexico
Sales in 1997 		— 2,000,000[87]
Asia-Pacific — 50,000[88]
Worldwide
Worldwide sales up to 1999 		— 4,500,000[65][66]

See also

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