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"Abrázame Muy Fuerte" is a song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

written 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

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....

. The song was produced and arranged by Bebu Silvetti

Bebu Silvetti

Juan Fernando Silvetti Adorno , professionally known as Bebu Silvetti or simply Silvetti, was an Argentine pianist, composer, conductor, arranger and record producer...

and it was released as the second single from the album of the same title

Abrázame Muy Fuerte (album)

Abrázame Muy Fuerte is a studio album by Mexican singer Juan Gabriel release on December 12, 2000. It is also the main theme song for the Mexican telenovela Abrázame Muy Fuerte...

. The track became Gabriel's seventh number-one single in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart. The parent album became commercially successful, peaking at number two in the Top Latin Albums chart in the United States. The singer also received a nomination 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 Performance*From 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album...

at the 44th Grammy Awards for this release.

Gabriel received three Billboard Latin Music Awards

Billboard Latin Music Awards

The Billboard Latin Music Awards grew out of the Billboard Music Awards program from Billboard Magazine, an industry publication charting the sales and radio airplay success of musical recordings. The awards began in 1990...

for the song, which was used as the main theme

Main Theme

"Main Theme" is an instrumental track by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd on their third album, Soundtrack from the Film More.-Overview:...

for the Mexican telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Abrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...

, starring Victoria Ruffo

Victoria Ruffo

Victoria Ruffo is a Mexican actress. Ruffo, the surname she uses professionally, is actually her maternal grandfather's surname.- Biography :...

, Aracely Arámbula

Aracely Arámbula

Aracely Arámbula Jacques is a Mexican actress, model and singer.- Biography :Arámbula was born March 6, 1975 in the city of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. She was noticed for the first time in 1993 when she was chosen for the "Rostro del Heraldo de México". Arámbula also writes songs and plays guitar...

and Fernando Colunga

Fernando Colunga

Fernando Colunga is a Mexican actor known for his work in Mexican telenovelas....

. In 2010, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter 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...

Background

Juan Gabriel

is the most successful Hispanic author, selling over 40 million copies and with more than 300 artists who have recorded one or more of his 900 compositions in a career spanning over 30 years, wrote and performed in 2000 "Abrázame Muy Fuerte", which was included on his studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

of the same title. On July 31, 2000 a telenovela

Telenovela

, starring Victoria Ruffo

Victoria Ruffo

Victoria Ruffo is a Mexican actress. Ruffo, the surname she uses professionally, is actually her maternal grandfather's surname.- Biography :...

, Aracely Arámbula

Aracely Arámbula

, Fernando Colunga

Fernando Colunga

Fernando Colunga is a Mexican actor known for his work in Mexican telenovelas....

and Pablo Montero

Pablo Montero

Pablo Montero is a popular Mexican singer and actor.- Personal life :Montero was born Oscar Daniel Hernández Rodríguez in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.From about 2000 to 2003, Montero had a relationship with Aracely Arámbula....

, titled Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Abrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...

began broadcasting in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

. Salvador Mejía, the producer, choose to use the song as its main theme

Main Theme

"Main Theme" is an instrumental track by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd on their third album, Soundtrack from the Film More.-Overview:...

. The telenovela became very successful and ended winning eight TVyNovelas Awards

Premios TVyNovelas

The TVyNovelas Awards, also known as the Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually by Televisa and the magazine TVyNovelas to honour the best Mexican television productions, especially telenovelas. Instituted in 1983, the award ceremony is held in Forum Mundo Imperial in Acapulco...

in 2001, including Best Telenovela, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

Chart performance and cover versions

The song debuted in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart (formerly Hot Latin Tracks) at number 38 in the week of December 2, 2000, climbing to the top ten three weeks later, peaking at number-one on January 27, 2001, holding this position for four weeks, being replaced by MDO

MDO (band)

MDO is a Latin American pop/rock band, spun off in 1997 from the Puerto Rican boy band once known as Menudo.-Band history:In the mid-1990s, Edgardo Diaz, Menudo's creator and director, sold the rights for the trademarked name Menudo to a Panamanian company...

's "Te Quise Olvidar". "Abrázame" returned to the top of the chart the following week. The track was succeeded at number-one by "Sólo Quiero Amarte

Nobody Wants to Be Lonely

"Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" is the second single from Ricky Martin's second English album, Sound Loaded, released on January 9, 2001. Ricky Martin also recorded this single in Spanish entitled "Sólo Quiero Amarte". Another version of the song was recorded as a duet with Christina Aguilera...

" performed by Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin

Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

five weeks later. "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top spot of the chart, and ended the year as the best performing Latin single of 2001

Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart

The Year-End charts for the Top Latin Songs chart are published in the last issue of Billboard magazine every year. The chart is based on information provided by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, which collects radio airplay information...

. For the song, Gabriel won two Billboard Latin Music Awards

Billboard Latin Music Awards

in 2002

2002 Latin Billboard Music Awards

The 13th annual Billboard Latin Music Awards which honor the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music took place May 9 in Miami. Winners are determined by the actual sales and radio airplay data that informs Billboard's weekly charts, including Top Latin Albums, and radio charts,...

for Hot Latin Track of the Year and Latin Pop Airplay Track of the Year; and also received the Songwriter of the Year award. Bebu Silvetti earned the Producer of the Year award for his work on the track, which ranked 7th at the Hot Latin Songs 25th Anniversary chart.

"Abrázame Muy Fuerte" has been covered by several performers, including Chon Arauza y La Furia Colombiana, Conjunto Amanecer, Hugo Cortes, Emerson Ensemble, Grupo Condesa, Grupo Hanyak, Jaula de Grillos, Juan Manuel Valadez, Jesus Medel y Sus Cantantes, Juan Michel, Ednita Nazario

Ednita Nazario

Ednita Nazario is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter who has achieved stardom both at home and abroad. She has been in the music business from a young age, and has released over twenty albums throughout her career....

, Oscar y la Fantasia, Proyecto Nuevo, Ritmo Son, Rumbasón Orquesta, Sheyla y Cipriano Alberto, La Sinfonia, Juan Pablo Subirama, Los Suenos Azules, Nelson Tavarez, Francisco Ulloa and Marc Anthony.

Charts

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Chart (2001)	Peak position
US Tropical Songs (Billboard)	6

Marc Anthony version

Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Marc Anthony

recorded a cover version of the song for his album Iconos
Iconos
Iconos is the eleventh studio album by Marc Anthony which covers Latin ballads from the past and the second Latin pop album by Marc Anthony after Amar sin mentiras. The album was first released on May 14, 2010, in Europe through Ariola Records, and May 25 in the US and UK with Sony Latin.-Album...

in 2010. Anthony bought six hundred records to listen and select the songs that would be included on the album, the first of other cover albums that he will be releasing under this concept. Anthony recorded "Abrázame Muy Fuerte", "Ya lo Sé Que Tu Te Vas" and "Te Lo Pido por Favor", written by Juan Gabriel, since the songs were "related to his taste in music and who he was." "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" was chosen by the fans of the artist as the second single from the album, after a survey through his official website. This is also the second single by Marc Anthony to cover a song by Juan Gabriel since his recorded version of "Hasta Que Te Conocí

Hasta Que Te Conocí

"Hasta Que Te Conocí" is a song written, produced and performed by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel. It was released in 1986 as the second single from his studio album Pensamientos. This song deals with a man who has never learned about suffering or sadness until he love fell in love with a...

" on his 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...

in 1993.

Charts

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Chart (2010)	Peak position

Background

Chart performance and cover versions

Charts

Marc Anthony version

Charts

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