Amor & Pasión

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Amor & Pasión
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Studio album by
Il Divo
Released28 October 2015
RecordedFebruary – September 2015
StudioMiami Art House Studios (Miami, United States)
GenreClassical crossover; bolero; mambo; tango
Length43:06
LabelSyco, Sony Music
Producer
Il Divo chronology
A Musical Affair
(2013) 		Amor & Pasión
(2015) 		Timeless
(2018)

Amor & Pasión, initially released in Japan on 28 October 2015, is the eighth studio album by the classical crossover musical group Il Divo,[1] formed by a male vocal quartet; the Swiss tenor Urs Bühler, the Spanish baritone Carlos Marín, the American tenor David Miller and the French pop singer Sébastien Izambard. The album was produced by .[2]

Release[]

The album was released across the globe in a one month period. The album was first released in Japan on 28 October 2015, in Spain on 6 November,[3] in the United States on 13 November, and in the UK on 27 November, on Syco Music under Sony Music and on Columbia Records.[4]

Recording[]

The album was recorded at the Miami Art House Studios, in the city of Miami, in 2015. During the month of July 2015, initiated the photographic campaign for his seventh album and the recording of a new videoclip in the streets of the city of Tepoztlán, in Mexico, under the production of CTT Exp & Rentals.[5]

Tracks[]

The disk covers a century of Tangos traditional, Mambas and boleros classical, with flavours and sensual rhythms of Spain, Cuba, Argentina and Mexico, doing a wink to the starts of the quartet, eleven years backwards, whereas it marks a new chapter in his career.[6]

The album only will contain songs in Spanish, first whole disk in a same language of the group, with the versions of the songs "By a head" tango composed "Por una cabeza" by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera, "Abrázame" by Julio Iglesias and Rafael Ferro Garcia, "Si voy a perderte (Don't Wanna Lose You)" by Gloria Estefan, "Eres tú", "Quizás, quizás, quizás (Perhaps, Perhap, Perhaps)" of the composer Osvaldo Farrés, "Bésame Mucho" of the composer Consuelo Velázquez, "¿Quien Será? (Sway)" mambo composed by Pablo Beltrán Ruiz and Luis Demetrio, "Volver" tango of Carlos Gardel, the bolero "Historia de un amor", "Eres tú", the bolero "Contigo en la distancia" of César Portillo de la Luz, "A las mujeres que amé (To All the Girls I've Loved Before)" by Hal David and Albert Hammond; "¿Quién será?", and the emblematic "Himno de la alegría (Ode to Joy)".

Singles[]

Track listing[]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Por una Cabeza"Carlos Gardel; Alfredo Le Pera3:44
2."Abrázame"Julio Iglesias; Rafael Ferro Garcia3:27
3."Si voy a perderte (Don't Wanna Lose You)"Gloria Estefan4:47
4."Quizás, quizás, quizás (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps)"Osvaldo Farrés3:14
5."Bésame mucho"Consuelo Velázquez2:50
6."¿Quien será? (Sway)"Pablo Beltrán Ruiz; Luis Demetrio3:01
7."Volver"Carlos Gardel3:12
8."Historia de un amor"Carlos Eleta Almarán3:29
9."Eres tú"Juan Carlos Calderón4:04
10."Contigo en la distancia"César Portillo de la Luz2:51
11."A las mujeres que amé (To All the Girls I've Loved Before)"Hal David; Albert Hammond4:32
12."Himno de la alegría (Ode to Joy)"Ludwig van Beethoven; Amado Regueiro Rodríguez; Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro Gutierrez3:43

Personnel[]

Il Divo
Production
  • – producer, mixing, engineer
  • Alberto Quintero – mixing
  • Maria Elisa Ayerbe – engineer, mixing
  • Jan Holzer, Vitek Kral, Andrés Bermúdez, Gabriel Saientz Bandoneón, Carlos Fernando López, David Alsina, Ricardo López Lalinde – engineer
  • Dick Beetham – mastering
Other musicians
  • Dan Warner – Guitar
  • Guillermo Vadalá – bass
  • – piano, programmer, arrangement
  • Richard Bravo – percussion
  • David Alsina - Bandoneon
  • Juan Camilo Arboleda – orchestral arrangements
  • Carlos Fernando López – orchestral arrangements, programmer
  • Ricardo López Lalinde – programmer

Charts[]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[29] Gold 20,000double-dagger
United Kingdom (BPI)[30] Silver 60,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
double-dagger Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Amor & Pasión, released in 2015, is the 7th studio album by Il Divo, produced by Columbian producer and multiple Latin Grammy winner Julio Reyes Copello". sebastienizambard.net. 25 November 2015. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015.
  3. ^ sonymusic.es (ed.). "El original y mejor grupo de música clásica crossover Il Divo lanzan su esperado nuevo álbum 'AMOR & PASION' a través de Syco Music".
  4. ^ sebastienizambard.net, ed. (25 November 2015). "NEW IL DIVO ALBUM AMOR & PASION OUT NOVEMBER 2015". Archived from the original on 28 September 2015.
  5. ^ cttrentals.com, ed. (6 July 2015). "Il Divo acaba de filmar un videoclip en México, y lo ha hecho de la mejor manera: en un paraje inigualable como la ciudad de Tepoztlan y con equipo de CTT Exp & Rentals".
  6. ^ http://www.ildivo.com/, ed. (24 September 2015). "Over the past few months, Carlos, Urs, David and Seb have been in the studio working on their latest album Amor & Pasión". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015.
  7. ^ azlyrics.com, ed. (30 October 2015). ""Por Una Cabeza" Il Divo" (in Spanish).
  8. ^ dicelacancion.com, ed. (30 October 2015). ""Si Voy A Perderte (Don't Wanna Lose You)" Il Divo" (in Spanish).
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  30. ^ "British album certifications – Il Divo – Amor & Pasion". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
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