Amor & Pasión

Amor & Pasión
Studio album by Il Divo
Released United Kingdom:6 November 2015
Spain:6 November 2015
United States:13 November 2015
Japan:28 October 2015[1]
Recorded Miami Art House Studios (Miami, USA)
Genre Classical crossover; bolero; mambo; tango
Length 43:06
Label Syco, Sony Music
Producer Julio Reyes Copello
Il Divo chronology
A Musical Affair
(2013)		 Amor & Pasión
(2015)

Amor & Pasión published in 2015, is the seventh studio album by the classical crossover musical group Il Divo,[2] 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.[3]

Release

General announced release date (UK) is 27 November 2015, Japan release 28 October, Spain release 6 November[4] and American 23 November on Syco Music (Sony Music) & Columbia Records.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7]

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 Pera 3:44
2. "Abrázame"  Julio Iglesias; Rafael Ferro Garcia 3:27
3. "Si Voy A Perderte (Don't Wanna Lose You)"  Gloria Estefan 4:47
4. "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (Perhaps, Perhap, Perhaps)"  Osvaldo Farrés 2:15
5. "Bésame Mucho"  Consuelo Velázquez 2:31
6. "¿Quien Será? (Sway)"  Pablo Beltrán Ruiz; Luis Demetrio 3:01
7. "Volver"  Carlos Gardel 3:12
8. "Historia de un Amor"  Carlos Eleta Almarán 3:29
9. "Eres tú"  Juan Carlos Calderón 4:04
10. "Contigo En La Distancia"  César Portillo de la Luz 2:51
11. "A Las Mujeres Que Amé (To All the Girls I've Loved Before)"  Hal David; Albert Hammond 4:32
12. "Himno de la Alegría (Ode to Joy)"  Ludwig van Beethoven; Amado Regueiro Rodríguez; Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro Gutierrez 3:43

Personnel

Il Divo
Production
Other musicians

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[13] 80
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[14] 43
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[15] 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[15] 53
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[16] 7
Irish Albums (IRMA)[17] 25
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[18] 11
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[19] 10
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[20] 22
UK Albums (OCC)[21] 13
US Billboard 200[22] 135
US Top Latin Albums (Billboard)[23] 1
US Latin Pop Albums (Billboard)[24] 1

See also

References

  1. ↑ Vasquez, Marvin (25 September 2015). "Il Divo to Release New Album this November". Living Out Loud Los Angeles. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  2. ↑ ildivogrupointernacional.wordpress.com, ed. (1 October 2015). "¡Un derroche de "Amor y Pasión" Nuevo álbum de IL DIVO!".
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ 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.".
  5. ↑ sebastienizambard.net, ed. (25 November 2015). "NEW IL DIVO ALBUM AMOR & PASION OUT NOVEMBER 2015".
  6. ↑ 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".
  7. ↑ 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.".
  8. ↑ azlyrics.com, ed. (30 October 2015). ""Por Una Cabeza" Il Divo" (in Spanish).
  9. ↑ dicelacancion.com, ed. (30 October 2015). ""Si Voy A Perderte (Don't Wanna Lose You)" Il Divo" (in Spanish).
  10. ↑ lyricstranslate.com, ed. (30 October 2015). ""Bésame Mucho " Il Divo" (in Spanish).
  11. ↑ dailymotion.com, ed. (7 November 2015). ""Abrázame" Il Divo" (in Spanish).
  12. ↑ dailymotion.com, ed. (13 November 2015). "IL DIVO "Quizás, quizás, quizás" Strictly-It Takes Two BBC 2 13-11-2015" (in Spanish).
  13. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (21 November 2015). "ARIA Albums: Justin Bieber Beats One Direction to No 1". Noise11. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Il Divo – Amor & Pasion" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  15. 1 2 "Il Divo - Amor & pasión". Ultratop and Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  16. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Il Divo – Amor & Pasion" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  17. ↑ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 49, 2015". Chart-Track. IRMA. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "Portuguesecharts.com – Il Divo – Amor & Pasion". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  19. ↑ "Spanishcharts.com – Il Divo – Amor & Pasion". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  20. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Il Divo – Amor & Pasion". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  21. ↑ "2015-12-04 Top 40 UK Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  22. ↑ "Il Divo – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Il Divo. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  23. ↑ "Il Divo – Chart history" Billboard Top Latin Albums for Il Divo. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  24. ↑ "Il Divo – Chart history" Billboard Latin Pop Albums for Il Divo. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
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