Amor & Pasión

Amor & Pasión
Studio album by Il Divo
Released	United Kingdom:27 November 2015 Spain:6 November 2015 United States:13 November 2015 Japan:28 October 2015[1]
Recorded	Miami Art House Studios (Miami, United States) February- September 2015
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 13 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

• "Por una cabeza"^[8]
• "Si voy a perderte (Don't wanna lose you)"^[9]
• "Bésame mucho"^[10]
• "Abrázame"^[11]
• "Quizás, quizás, quizás"^[12]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(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, Perhaps, 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

• Carlos Marín – baritone
• Sébastien Izambard – tenor
• David Miller – tenor
• Urs Bühler – tenor

Production

• Julio Reyes Copello – producer, mixing, engineer
• Alberto Quintero – mixing
• Maria Elisa Ayerbe – engineer, mixing
• Jan Holzer, Vitek Kral, Andrés Bermúdez, Gabriel Saientz Bandoneón, Carlos Fernando López, David Alsina, Ricardo López Lalinde – engineer
• Dick Beetham – mastering

Other musicians

• Dan Warner – Guitar
• Guillermo Vadalá – bass
• Julio Reyes Copello – piano, programmer, arrangement
• Richard Bravo – percussion
• David Alsina - Bandoneon
• Juan Camilo Arboleda – orchestral arrangements
• Carlos Fernando López – orchestral arrangements, programmer
• Ricardo López Lalinde – programmer

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
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[18]	38
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[19]	11
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[20]	10
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[21]	22
UK Albums (OCC)[22]	13
US Billboard 200[23]	135
US Top Latin Albums (Billboard)[24]	1
US Latin Pop Albums (Billboard)[25]	1

See also

• Amor & Pasión Tour
• List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s
• List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums from the 2010s

References

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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. Archived from the original on 28 September 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.".
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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".
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