Amor & Pasión

Amor & Pasión, initially released in Japan on 28 October 2015, is the seventh 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 is produced by the multiple Latin Grammy Award winner Julio Reyes Copello.[2]

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

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
Other musicians
  • Dan Warner – Guitar
  • Guillermo Vadalá – bass
  • Julio Reyes Copello – 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 CertificationCertified units/sales
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[28] Gold 20,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[29] Silver 60,000*

*sales figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

See also

References
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