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Top Hits, Boleros, Classic Ballads, Solo Latinos, Reg. Mexicano, Love Ballads. |
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Born in 1971 in Mexico City, Alejandro Fernández entered the musical world at the age of four when he went on stage for the first time to accompany his father, Vicente Fernández, on the song El Charro de Huentitlán. Later he debuted his talents on his fathers album, recording a duet called Amor de los dos. The song took the market by storm and for his next album, Alejandro, 19, took on the leading role and produced the song El Andariego. In 1992 having taken the definitive step to becoming a soloist he recorded his much anticipated album simply called Alejandro Fernández--his first musical venture without his father. The album smoked audiences, demonstrating the young Mexicans prodigious voice. The following year, he recorded his second album, Piel de Niña, and his music began to be aired on radios and TV, achieving great popularity thanks to musical arrangements such as Acabé por llorar, Cenizas, A la vera del camino and Cascos ligeros. He gave up studying architecture at the university and he devoted himself to the recording of his third project, in which he explored traditional sounds of Latin America, producing as a result Grandes Éxitos a la Manera de Alejandro Fernández, a veritable journey through popular traditional Latin American songs like Conozco a los dos, A pesar de todo, La gloria eres tú and Noche de ronda. The two productions that followed, Que seas muy feliz and Muy dentro de mi corazón marked a new phase in Alejandros career. Thanks to musical arrangements such as La mitad que me Faltaba, Llorando penas, Como quien pierde una estrella, Nube viajera and Es la mujer, he inspired the admiration of young audiences and as a result achieved his central goal: the encouraging the younger generations identification with old Mexican musical traditions. Back in the recording studio, Alejandro finished the album Me estoy enamorando, his next important step towards broader musical horizons. Romantic baladas and songs closer to pop music conquered the most diverse audiences from Latin America, the US and Europe, but which never required him to abandon the essential Mexican character of his music. The first three songs of the album, Si tú supieras, En el jardín, (sang in duet with Gloria Estefan) and Yo nací para amarte, soared to the top of the charts in the Latin music section of Billboard magazine. The Album scored multi-platinum in Latin America and sold over 2.2 million copies globally. In 1999 the album Christmastime in Viena appeared in the market, a collection of Christmas songs in which Fernández sang in English and Spanish with celebrities such as Plácido Domingo and Patricia Kaas. His subsequent project to come out of the recording studio, Mi Verdad, marked a return to traditional Mexican rancheras in songs like Loco, Si He Sabido Amor, Mentirosos and Avísame and was produced by Emilio Estefan. In 2005, father and son finally sharing a stage after so many years, delivered a knock-out performance on May 1st in the Foro Sol of Mexico.
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