Segundo Romance | ||||
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Studio album by Luis Miguel | ||||
Released | 30 August 1994 | |||
Recorded | 1994 | |||
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Record Plant Studios (Los Angeles, California) |
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Length | 38:57 | |||
Language | Spanish | |||
Label | WEA Latina | |||
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Segundo Romance (English: Second Romance) is the tenth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel, released on 30 August 1994 by Warner Music Latina. It is a follow-up to his 1991 album, Romance, and features 11 cover versions of Latin ballads that were written between 1934 and 1993. In addition to Miguel, the production involved Juan Carlos Calderón, Kiko Cibrian and Armando Manzanero (who co-produced Romance). Segundo Romance was recorded in early 1994 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, California.
Miguel promoted the album by touring the United States and Latin America. Segundo Romance was generally well received by music critics, who praised its production, Miguel's vocals and the choice of songs. The album earned Miguel several awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance. Four singles were released; the first two, "El Día Que Me Quieras" and "La Media Vuelta", reached number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States. "Todo y Nada" and "Delirio" peaked at numbers three and sixteen, respectively, on the same chart. By 1995, Segundo Romance sold over four million copies and received multi-platinum certifications in several Latin American countries, the United States and Spain.
In 1991 Miguel released his eighth studio album, Romance, a collection of classic boleros, the oldest dating to the 1940s. The album, which was produced by Armando Manzanero and arranged by Bebu Silvetti, was a success in Latin America and sold over seven million copies worldwide. It revived interest in the bolero genre, and was the first record by a Spanish-speaking artist to be certified gold in Brazil, Taiwan and the United States. In spite of Romance's success, Miguel did not release an immediate follow-up to the album and instead opted to record an album of original material. However, he affirmed that he would release another boleros album after the release of Aries. Four months later he confirmed that his next project would be another collection of boleros, initially entitled Romance II, and recording began in March 1994.