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El Alma al Aire is the fifth studio album recorded by Spanish

Spain

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singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

Alejandro Sanz

Alejandro Sanz , is a Spanish singer-songwriter and musician. For his work, Sanz has won a total of fifteen Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Awards. He has won the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year three times, more than any other artist...

in which he gives us interpretations that come from the soul, melodies in which it seems that the voice breaks. It is one of his more suggestive and emotive works. It beat all the records of sale of the Spanish

Spain

market on having reached the 1,000,000 copies in the first week http://www.alejandrosanz.ws/libros/porderecho/lossecretosdelalma.html.

Track listing

Cuando Nadie Me Ve - 5:07
Hay Un Universo De Pequeñas Cosas - 5:22
Quisiera Ser - 5:30
Para Que Me Quieras - 4:29
Llega, Llego Soledad - 4:37
El Alma Al Aire - 5:58
Me Iré - 5:40
Hicimos Un Trato - 4:37
Tiene Que Ser Pecado - 5:05
Silencio - 8:22 (contains the hidden track "Desde Mis Centros")

Album

Year	Chart	Peak	Weeks on Chart
2000	Billboard Heatseekers	5 http://www.billboard.com	5
2000	Billboard Latin Pop Albums	2 http://www.billboard.com	25
2000	Billboard Top Latin Albums	3 http://www.billboard.com	38
2000	Billboard The Billboard 200	148 http://www.billboard.com	2
2000	Billboard Top Heatseekers (Pacific)	4 http://www.billboard.com	2
2000	Billboard Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic)	1 http://www.billboard.com	7

Singles

Year	Chart	Track	Peak	Weeks on Chart
2000	Billboard Hot Latin Songs	Cuando Nadie Me Ve	12 http://www.billboard.com	11
2000	Billboard Latin Pop Airplay	Cuando Nadie Me Ve	9 http://www.billboard.com	14
2000	Billboard Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay	Cuando Nadie Me Ve	7 http://www.billboard.com	13
2000	Billboard Hot Latin Songs	Quisiera Ser	17 http://www.billboard.com	16
2000	Billboard Latin Pop Airplay	Quisiera Ser	13 http://www.billboard.com	23
2000	Billboard Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay	Quisiera Ser	9 http://www.billboard.com	15
2001	Billboard Hot Latin Songs	El Alma Al Aire	40 http://www.billboard.com	1
2001	Billboard Latin Pop Airplay	El Alma Al Aire	17 http://www.billboard.com	3
2001	Billboard Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay	El Alma Al Aire	30 http://www.billboard.com	4

Date	Chart	Track	Peak
September 23, 2000	Los40.com Los 40 Principales	Cuando Nadie Me Ve	1 http://www.los40.com/articulo/noticias/Alejandro/Sanz/vuelve/conseguir/numero/agradezco/l40actn01/20070226l40l40not_6/Tes/
December 23, 2000	Los40.com Los 40 Principales	Quisiera Ser	1 http://www.los40.com/articulo/noticias/Alejandro/Sanz/vuelve/conseguir/numero/agradezco/l40actn01/20070226l40l40not_6/Tes/
May 12, 2001	Los40.com Los 40 Principales	El Alma Al Aire	1 http://www.los40.com/articulo/noticias/Alejandro/Sanz/vuelve/conseguir/numero/agradezco/l40actn01/20070226l40l40not_6/Tes/

Sales and certifications

Personnel

Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo Girol is a Spanish flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist, born in Guadalcanal, near Seville. He has played as backing guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers El Pele, Camarón de la Isla, Vicente Soto, Luis de Córdoba and the rociero band Salmarina, and he has acted as a...

- Spanish guitar
Classical guitar
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"Quisiera Ser" and "El Alma Al Aire"
Gennady Aronin - Violin
Violin
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Enrique Badulescu - Photography
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Antonio Baglio - Mastering
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Tim Barnes - Viola
Viola
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Maurizio Biancani - Mixing
Renato Cantele - Engineer
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, Mixing
Huifang Chen - Violin
Violin
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Janet Clippard - Bass
Bass guitar
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Gustavo Correa - Violin
Violin
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Montse Cortés - Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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"Quisiera Ser" and "El Alma Al Aire"
John DiPuccio - Violin
Violin
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Paquito Echevarría - Piano tumbao in "El Alma Al Aire"
Joan Faigen - Violin
Violin
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Scott Flavin - Violin
Violin
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Chris Glansdorp - Cello
Cello
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Alfredo Golino - Drums
Drum kit
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Jorge González - Assistant Engineer
Audio engineering
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Luca Jurman - Arranger
Arrangement
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, Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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Mei Mei Luo - Violin
Violin
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Roberto Maccagno - Engineer
Audio engineering
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, Technical Coordinator

Charo Manzano - Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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"Quisiera Ser" and "El Alma Al Aire"
Raul Midón
Raul Midón
Raúl Midón is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Mexico, based in New York City. He combines his distinct voice, strumming, beats, and vocal mouth trumpet sounds to create a one-man performance. His unique style shows influence of virtually every musical genre which came before him,...

- Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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José Antonio Molina - Arranger
Arrangement
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, Orchestra Director
Susan Moyer - Cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
Alfredo Oliva - Violin
Violin
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Alfredo Paixao - Bass
Bass guitar
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, Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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Wendy Pedersen - Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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Lulo Pérez - Arranger
Arrangement
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...

, Trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
Dave Poler - Assistant Engineer
Audio engineering
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Rita Quintero
Rita Quintero
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- Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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Keith Robinson - Cello
Cello
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Emanuele Ruffinengo - Arranger
Arrangement
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, Concept, Producer
Record producer
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Alejandro Sanz - Vocals, Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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, Arranger
Arrangement
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, Concept
Rafa Sañudo - Art direction, Design
Debra Spring - Viola
Viola
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Ramiro Terán - Background Vocals
Backing vocalist
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Christine Tramontano - Assistant Engineer
Audio engineering
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Ludovico Vagnone - Acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar
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, Electric guitar
Electric guitar
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Bruce Wethey - Violin
Violin
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Bogumila Zgraja - Violin
Violin
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Awards

Year	Category	Title	Result
2001 Latin Grammy Awards of 2001 The winners of the Second Annual Latin Grammy Awards were announced during a press conference on October 30, 2001 at the Conga Room in Los Angeles, California. The conference, which was broadcast live on the internet, was hosted by Jimmy Smits and Paul Rodriguez. Alejandro Sanz was the big winner...	Latin Grammy Award for Record Of The Year Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year The Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally...	El Alma Al Aire	Won
	Latin Grammy Award for Album Of The Year Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year The Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally...	El Alma Al Aire	Won
	Latin Grammy Award for Song Of The Year Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year The Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence, creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally...	El Alma Al Aire	Won
	Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Male The Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally...	El Alma Al Aire	Won
	Latin Grammy Award for Best Music Video Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video The Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video is given every year since the 1st Latin Grammy Awards ceremony. The award is given to the performer, director and producer of the video.-2010s:-2000s:...	Cuando Nadie Me Ve	Nominated
2001	Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album was awarded from 1984 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop PerformanceFrom 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album...	El Alma Al Aire	Nominated

Special edition

El Alma Al Aire: Edición Especial is the 2001 re-release of the album El Alma Al Aire containing 2 CDs. The CD 1 is the same as the original album and the CD 2 contains 5 new tracks (His duets with the Irish

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group The Corrs

The Corrs

The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...

, a duet with the Mexican

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singer Armando Manzanero

Armando Manzanero

Armando Manzanero Canché is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America....

and a remix of the song "Tiene Que Ser Pecado").

CD 1

Cuando Nadie Me Ve - 5:07
Hay Un Universo De Pequeñas Cosas - 5:22
Quisiera Ser - 5:30
Para Que Me Quieras - 4:29
Llega, Llego Soledad - 4:37
El Alma Al Aire - 5:58
Me Iré - 5:40
Hicimos Un Trato - 4:37
Tiene Que Ser Pecado - 5:05
Silencio - 8:22 (contains the hidden track "Desde Mis Centros")

CD 2

11 Me Iré (the hardest day) con The Corrs
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...

- 4:26
12 Una Noche con The Corrs
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...

- 4:44
13 Adoro con Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America....

- 4:17
14 Tiene Que Ser Pecado (alternative mix) - 5:22
15 The Hardest Day con The Corrs
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...

- 4:38

Re-Release

El Alma Al Aire (Edición 2006) is the 2006 re-release of the album El Alma Al Aire containing a CD and DVD. The CD contains 13 tracks and the DVD contains 14 videos.

CD

Cuando Nadie Me Ve - 5:07
Hay Un Universo De Pequeñas Cosas - 5:22
Quisiera Ser - 5:30
Para Que Me Quieras - 4:29
Llega, Llego Soledad - 4:37
El Alma Al Aire - 5:58
Me Iré - 5:40
Hicimos Un Trato - 4:37
Tiene Que Ser Pecado - 5:05
Silencio - 8:22 (contains the hidden track "Desde Mis Centros")
Cuando Nadie Me Ve (demo) - 5:01
El Alma Al Aire (demo) - 5:39
Una Noche con The Corrs
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...

- 8:12

DVD

Cuando Nadie Me Ve (Video)
Quisiera Ser (Video)
El Alma Al Aire (Video)
Llega, Llego Soledad (Video)
Una Noche con The Corrs
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...

(Video)
The Hardest Day con The Corrs
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish band which combine pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music. The brother and sisters are from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea ; Sharon ; Caroline ; and Jim .The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the...

(Video)
Tiene Que Ser Pecado (2001 Concert at Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
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Llega, Llego Soledad (2001 Concert at Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
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Cuando Nadie Me Ve (2001 Concert at Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
The Vicente Calderón Stadium is the home stadium of La Liga football club Atlético Madrid and is located in the Arganzuela district of Spanish capital Madrid. The stadium was originally called the Manzanares Stadium, but this was later changed to the Vicente Calderón Stadium, after the famous...

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Me Iré (2001 Concert at Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
The Vicente Calderón Stadium is the home stadium of La Liga football club Atlético Madrid and is located in the Arganzuela district of Spanish capital Madrid. The stadium was originally called the Manzanares Stadium, but this was later changed to the Vicente Calderón Stadium, after the famous...

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Hay Un Universo De Pequeñas Cosas (2001 Concert at Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
The Vicente Calderón Stadium is the home stadium of La Liga football club Atlético Madrid and is located in the Arganzuela district of Spanish capital Madrid. The stadium was originally called the Manzanares Stadium, but this was later changed to the Vicente Calderón Stadium, after the famous...

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El Alma Al Aire (2001 Concert at Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
The Vicente Calderón Stadium is the home stadium of La Liga football club Atlético Madrid and is located in the Arganzuela district of Spanish capital Madrid. The stadium was originally called the Manzanares Stadium, but this was later changed to the Vicente Calderón Stadium, after the famous...

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Quisiera Ser (2001 Concert at Vicente Calderón Stadium
Vicente Calderón Stadium
The Vicente Calderón Stadium is the home stadium of La Liga football club Atlético Madrid and is located in the Arganzuela district of Spanish capital Madrid. The stadium was originally called the Manzanares Stadium, but this was later changed to the Vicente Calderón Stadium, after the famous...

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