Re: Jennifer Pena-Libre Full Album Zip
Adrian Rocher
Libre (English: Free) is the fifth studio album recorded by Mexican-American singer Jennifer Peña. The album was released by Univision Records on June 11, 2002 (see 2002 in music), Libre debuted on Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart at #2 with a 17 track listing of which spawned several top ten hits including "Vamos al Mundial", which was selected by the U.S. Hispanic network Univisión as the official song of the 2002 World Cup Soccer tournament. Libre also includes the #1 Hot Latin Track "El Dolor de Tu Presencia" which spent eight weeks atop of the charts in the summer of 2002 along with "Entre el Delirio y la Locura". Recorded in Miami Beach, Florida and Glendale, California it was executive produced by José Behar and included production by Rudy Pérez, Kike Santander, Gustavo Santander, Enrique Elizondo, José Luis Arroyave and José Gaviria. Libre was a crossover album for Peña, who has spent the first phase of her career recording Tejano music. Libre re-introduced Jennifer as a pop singer with romantic ballads, dance songs that were far more mainstream than anything she had recorded before. Libre became one of the most successful Latin albums of 2002 selling over 500,000 units certified multi-Platinum by the RIAA. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Everything about her new album, the just-released "Libre," bearsPena's personal stamp. She handpicked the record's 11 songs and itshigh-profile producers, Latin pop hit-makers Rudy Perez and KikeSantander, and chose the clothes and makeup she wears in the CD'sphoto-filled booklet.
It's a new beginning for the San Antonio-born, Corpus Christi,Texas-based singer who stormed the Tejano world in 1996 as a mere11-year-old with the album "Dulzura." Back then, she was thepint-sized protege of the late Tejano queen Selena's father andmanager, Abraham Quintanilla. Since her 18th birthday, Pena severedbusiness and creative ties with Quintanilla, left her former labeland signed with a hot new imprint, Univision Music Group.
"Freedom feels good," she says over lunch in Dallas' West End."And I don't mean that like everybody's thinking it, that we namedthis album `Libre' because I'm free from Abraham. It really hadnothing to do with that. It was mostly the fact that I felt free asa human being and for the first time as an adult to make my owndecisions, to speak my opinion and have a more hands-on experienceand more say so in everything I did."
So she toyed with her sound. The album is decidedly Latin pop.Pena tackles a handful of emotional ballads, from the passionatefirst single "El Dolor de Tu Presencia" to the pretty "Entre elDelirio y la Locura," and even ventures into dance-pop territorywith "Vamos al Mundial," the official theme for the Univisiontelevision network's world cup coverage.
The album does have its share of cumbias, the rhythmic stylethat put Pena on the commercial map. But it was recording "Vamos alMundial," a pulsating, synthesizer-driven dance-pop confection,that steered her in a Latin pop direction and away from theregional Mexican genre where she started.
"We're like, `Well, what if the `Mundial' song hits in the popmarket and the rest of the album is cumbias?' So we started withone more ballad, and then once I recorded it I was like, `Wait, Ireally like this ballad. I really like the emotion I was able toput into it and the way I was able to identify with the song.' Andthat's just more my style. I started in Spanish music and cumbiaswhen I didn't even know of any other artist besides Selena. Ilearned a whole lot more about regional Mexican and Tejano musicand I expanded on that, but my heart was still with pop music."
Under Q and EMI, Pena recorded four albums, two billed asJennifer y Los Jetz (to include her band name) and a couple as justJennifer. Success came quickly - radio airplay, concert gigs,healthy record sales and six Tejano Music Awards since 1997.
"It was pretty much a mutual decision for me to go," she says."I wanted to do different things. I wanted to record the kind ofmusic I recorded on this album and work with the kind of producersI worked with on this album. If it was Q, it was Q's producers,either Abraham or A.B. (Quintanilla). I wanted to try newthings."
Her instincts were right. "Libre," released June 11, debuted atNo. 4 on Billboard's Latin albums chart. It now sits a notch higherat No. 3. As she continues to promote the album, Pena has becomequite goal-oriented. An English-language crossover record isdefinitely in the plans.
Jennifer Peña got her beginning at the Selena tribute concert in 1995 at the Houston astrodome. The Corpus Christi Texas teen piqued the interest of Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, who hooked up her first band, Jennifer y Los Jetz, and produced her first albums of pop tejano music, Dulzura and Jennifer y Los Jetz. Now in her early 20s, Jennifer has broken from Los Jetz and records solo on the Univision label where she's had continuing success with pop-heavy albums such as Libre.
Popular music is another channel by which words and phrases may cross language and cultural divides. Several albums with title tracks containing the word libre have achieved international acclaim and some have been nominated for Grammy Awards[55].
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