Fey (album)

Fey
Studio album by Fey
Released	March 21, 1995[1]
Genre	Teen pop, dance-pop
Label	Sony Music
Fey chronology
Fey (1995) Tierna La Noche (1996)

Fey is the eponymous debut album of Mexican pop singer Fey. It was released in 1995 with the Sony Music Mexico label. The album has sold over 2 million worldwide.

Background and recording

Initially, Fey began as achorister of the group Las hermanas Gil, which was made up by two of her aunts, a very famous duo during their time. Fey's family did not agree with her wishing to attend dance and singing classes, as they felt she was too young.^[2] For this reason, her aunts decide to include it in the group.^[3] Meanwhile, Fey was recording demos for different labels until around 1989 PolyGram was interested in the Fey's concept, then she was 16 years old. Finally, PolyGram not admit to Fey. Fey and her aunt Nohemi Gil were touching doors, until in 1994,^[4] appeared the opportunity in Sony Music, thanks to Toño Berumen, who showed interest in Fey. Signed the contract, Fey traveled to Spain to recorded her first disc. She worked with Jose Ramon Florez, who presented several compositions.

Promotion and success

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
todocoleccion	[6]
Coveralia Música	[7]

Again in Mexico, Fey presented her homonymous disc in the program Siempre en Domingo (Always in Sunday). Overnight, Fey get fame and recognition thanks to her single Media naranaja. That single ranked one in radial lists of all the Mexican Republic, lasting more than 40 weeks in the first 10 positions,^[8] in addition impulse the Fey's fame to different countries from Latin America, obtaining number one at Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela and Peru, countries where it obtained major impact.

The managers of Fey created a controversy with respect to her age, they decided to put 17 years to her when in fact she had 21, situation that was not denied at the time nor by her managers and by the singer. Also tube that to hide her engagement with her then ones to manager and integrator of the group Magneto, Mauri Stern, who already had several years of romance. Both decided to maintain their engagement privily, until passed some years Fey would break that relationship.^[9]

Passed the promotion of Media naranja, Fey received golden record in her native country by high sales and promoted Gatos en el balcón, with the same effect that her previous single. That year, the singer get a nomination in ERES Awards, by best video clip of the year. Gatos en el balcón was rolled in France with blue effects, that managed to lift the quality of the video, doing to her to won that nomination including best image and best pitch.^[10] Also she sign a contract with the brand Fanta^[11] to which recorded commercial with the slogan Sabor de alto voltaje (Flavor of high voltage).

The press of her country said that Fey had a relationship with Enrique Iglesias (he made his debut musically that same year). The relation between both singers was totally labor. Both put for a musical magazine and were considered as both important debuts but of that year.^[12] Finally, Fey never admitted to have had something with Enrique Iglesias, whereas Enrique Iglesias said the same.

Finally, was published Me enamoro de ti, with this single the promotion of the album is finalized and managed to maintain the Fey's fame in Latin America. In addition, a platinum record is granted to Fey,^[13] by high sales of almost two world-wide million.

Presentations and tour

Fanta supported the Fey's tour by different stores,^[14] but it was canceled because the public jammed these enclosures, exposing so much to the spectators as to the singer. Soon Fey started her tour at the end of 1995 in her country, appearing in the Metropólitan Theater, with four dates consecutives^[15] and total plenty.

Finally, the singer traveled to different countries from South America where she made diverse presentations. One was her presentation in the Viña del mar Festival in 1996, where she won a Silver torch.^[10]

Impact and legacy

Since for those years existed drained musical recognized by several musical critics in Mexico, Fey has been considered as the first Pop Star of the 90' s,^[2] even before Shakira, Anahí or Lynda, that their respective careers musical began. The sound of the album is a combination of industrial with fusions of pop Latin and dance,^[16] putting a new sound in the music of the 90's.^[17]

For the end of the 2008, the channel VH1 Latin America transmitted the program The 100 huge songs of 90s in Spanish where they occurred to know 100 the songs that, according to the program, marked to music in Spanish in decade of the 90's. In the first program it was had as panelist to Fey, that appeared in position 91 with her song Media naranja.^[18]

In late 2009, the album was featured on the MVS documentary series Discografias: 25 Discos Esenciales, as one of the twenty five essential recordings of Latin American music. The album was said to have had "a definitive impact on the 90s generation" and to have "changed the way Pop was made in Mexico".

Track listing

In the first edition were 12 songs,^[1] and the second edition includes 2 remixes.

Second edition bonus tracks^[19]

Singles

Charts and certifications

References

External links

• Fey (album) at AllMusic

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Spanish Wikipedia.