El Pequeño Mundo Explained

El Pequeño Mundo
Type:Album
Artist:Xuxa
Cover:Cover El Pequeño Mundo (Xuxa album).jpg
Recorded:1994
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El Pequeño Mundo (English: The Little World|italic=yes) is the nineteenth studio album and the fourth in Spanish language album by Brazilian recording artist Xuxa Meneghel. It was released in October 1994 by Polygram (today Universal Music).

Production

El Pequeño Mundo was directed by Manuel Calderón and was produced by Michael Sullivan. The graphic design was under the command of Xuxa and Reinaldo Waisman. Xuxa spent ten days in Miami recording his new album in Spanish. The song "Happy sí" that was composed by Carlinhos Brown, who also participates in music, the singer had to travel to Miami to re-record the Spanish version of the song.

El Pequeño Mundo is a Spanish version of Xuxa's tenth Brazilian studio album, Sexto Sentido (1994). The tracks of the album are basically composed by Spanish versions of some songs from the Brazilian album, such as "Grito de Guerra" by Chiclete com Banana, and a cover version of "O Pato" by João Gilberto, and the unpublished "Muy Pequeño El Mundo Es ", "Que Sí, Que No" and Voy a Salir de Reventón".[1] the song "Grito de Guerra", by Chiclete com Banana, was also recorded in Portuguese to enter the album Sexto Sentido, but only the Spanish version was released. The album also marks the change of international label of Xuxa, until then their albums were released by "Globo Records". This is the first Xuxa musical project released by Polygram/Mercury Records.

Release and reception

El Pequeño Mundo was first released in Argentina in mid-October 1994, shortly after throughout Latin America, Spain and the United States.[2] In Chile, El Pequeño Mundo had positive sales reached the sixth position among the most sold in its first week, according to Billboard magazine.[3]

Promotion

To promote the new album, Xuxa was in Buenos Aires in mid-December 1994, and made two Pocket Shows in the programs Hola Susana and Ritmo de la noche in Telefé. El Pequeño Mundo had sales of more than 120,000 copies.[4]

Personnel

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
Argentina1994
Mexico
PeruK7Mercury
SpainCD
United StatesCD

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: El Pequeño Mundo – Galeria da Xuxa . galeriadaxuxa.weebly.com/ . 24 February 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150224161657/http://galeriadaxuxa.weebly.com/el-pequeno-mundo.html . 24 February 2015 .
  2. Book: Kids' Media Culture. 1999. Marsha Kinder. 0822323710. 24 February 2015.
  3. Hits of the World: Chile. Billboard. 21 January 1995. 24 February 2015.
  4. Web site: Xuxa chega ao horário nobre na Argentina. Folha de S.Paulo. 6 December 1994. 24 February 2015.
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=uAsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49 Billboard 21 jan. 1995