"Hasta Que Te Conocí" is a song written, produced and performed by Mexican 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...

 Juan Gabriel

Juan Gabriel

Alberto Aguilera Valadez , better known by his stage name Juan Gabriel , is a Mexican singer and songwriter who is one of the most famous living representatives of the Mexican ranchera, ballad, mariachi, and pop music....

. It was released in 1986 as the second single from his studio album

Studio album

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 Pensamientos

Pensamientos

-Personnel:This information is provided by Allmusic.*Juan Gabriel — Producer*Chuck Anderson — Arranger, director*Carlos Ceballos — Engineer*Stan Ross — Engineer*Ryan Uliate — Engineer*Alberto Reyna — Graphic design*Joe García — Paintings-Chart performance:...

. This song deals with a man who has never learned about suffering or sadness until he love fell in love with a woman. It peaked at number-two in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart on May 2, 1986 for five weeks, which was being held off by Braulio

Braulio García

Braulio García is a Spanish singer-songwiter. He began his career in 1971, debuting in a local festival with a song called "Mi Amigo El Pastor." In 1976 represents to Spain in Eurovision Song Contest with the song Sobran las palabras ,...

's song, En Bancarrota

En Bancarrota

"En Bancarrota" is a song written, performed and produced by Spanish singer-songwriter Braulio García. It was released in 1987 as the second single from his studio album Lo Bello y lo Prohibido...

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1994 re-recording

In 1994, Juan Gabriel re-recorded the song with Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 pianist Raúl di Blasio

Raúl di Blasio

Raúl di Blasio is an Argentine latin jazz and easy listening pianist.- Life :Born in Zapala, Argentina, Raúl Di Blasio showed a great interest in piano at the age of six. After his parents' recommendations that he should study music, he began to pursue piano as a career.Di Blasio practiced piano...

. This version peaked #36 on Hot Latin Tracks.

Chart performance

Chart (1986)	Peak position
USA Billboard Hot Latin Tracks	2

Marc Anthony version

In 1993, Puerto Rican-American salsa musician, Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy–winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads...

, recorded his own cover of "Hasta Que Te Conocí" on his salsa debut album, Otra Nota

Otra Nota

Otra nota is the debut album by American singer Marc Anthony that was released on January 26, 1993, by RMM Records. Produced by Sergio George, it was the first album by Anthony to record in salsa after starting his career as a freestyle musician...

. This was the first solo single of Anthony and his first song to be recorded in salsa. This version peaked #13 on Hot Latin Tracks. According to Anthony, he asked RMM president Ralph Mercado

Ralph Mercado

Ralph Mercado Jr. was a promoter of Latin American music — Latin Jazz, Latin rock, merengue and salsa — who established a network of businesses that included promoting concerts, managing artists, Radio Mundo Musical a record label the most important in the Latin industry during 1980-1990, film...

 if he could record the song in salsa after hearing it on the radio during a taxi ride.

Covers by other artists

This song has been covered by Allendy, Los Amigos de Alberto, Mauricio Calderon, Roberto Casas, Enrique Chia, Willie Colón

Willie Colón

William Anthony Colón is a Nuyorican salsa musician. Primarily a trombonist, Colón also sings, writes, produces and acts. He is also involved in municipal politics in New York City.-Early years:...

, Chamin Correa

Chamin Correa

Chamin Correa, is a Latin-American guitarist from Mexico. He is renowned in the Spanish-speaking world for his traditional romantic music. Member of Los Tres Caballeros together with Roberto Cantoral and Leonel Gálvez from 1954...

, Robert del Castillo, Ana Gabriel

Ana Gabriel

Ana Gabriel is a Mexican singer and composer.Ana Gabriel was born as María Guadalupe Araujo Yong, in Santiago de Comanito, Sinaloa, Mexico. She first sang on the stage at age six, singing "Regalo A Dios" by José Alfredo Jiménez. She moved to Tijuana, Baja California and studied accounting...

, Alvaro Torres

Álvaro Torres

Álvaro Torres is a Salvadoran singer and songwriter. His current Record Label is Big Dream Christian Music located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.-Biography:...

, Los Trí-O, and Voltio

Voltio

Julio Voltio is one of the reggaetón genre's best-known artists.His nickname came to be as the result of an accident. Before joining Karel, he worked as an electrician. One day, he stuck his hand in the wrong place and got shocked...

 featuring Pilar Montenegro

Pilar Montenegro

Pilar Montenegro is a Mexican Latin pop singer and actress.-Biography:When Montenegro was 10 years old she landed her first acting part in the TV series Juguemos A Cantar, her career moved along with her becoming a member of Fresas Con Crema for a short time...

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