Frenesí is an album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...

 released in 1992. It was Ronstadt's third Spanish-language album. It reached number 193 on the Billboard

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 chart, number 3 on the Top Latin Albums chart and number 17 on the Tropic/Salsa chart. Three singles charted on the Hot Latin Tracks chart: "Frenesi" and "Perfidia" at number 7 and "Entre Abismos" at number 33.

At the 35th Grammy Awards, Frenesí won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album

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.

As of January, 2011, this disc is now out of print.

Reception

Music critic Roch Parisien rated the album poorly in his Allmusic review, writing: "… there's little that sounds street level or rootsy about these sessions. I can't help picturing a wind-up lounge band holding court at some tourist-trap Holiday Inn in Acapulco."

Track listing

1. "Frenesi" (Alberto Dominguez, Leonard Whitcup) – 3:30
2. "Mentira Salome" (Ignacio Pineiro) – 2:50
3. "Alma Adentro" (Sylvia Rexach) – 3:11
4. "Entre Abismos" (Victor Manuel Mato) – 3:21
5. "Cuando Me Querias Tu" (Emilio Catarell Vela) – 3:07
6. "Piel Canela" (Bobby Capo
   Bobby Capó
   Félix Manuel Rodríguez Capó , better known as Bobby Capó, was an internationally known singer and songwriter from Puerto Rico...
   
   , Silvano Michelino, X. Regianni) – 3:02
7. "Verdad Amarga" (Consuelo Velázquez
   Consuelo Velázquez
   Consuelo Velázquez was a Mexican concert pianist, songwriter and recording artist.According to her obituary, she was 88 years old when she died...
   
   ) – 3:23
8. "Despojos" (Francisco Arrieta) – 3:02
9. "En Mi Soledad" (Duke Ellington
   Duke Ellington
   Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
   
   , Irving Mills], Miguel Pous, Eddie DeLange
   Eddie DeLange
   Eddie DeLange was an American bandleader and lyricist. Famous artists who recorded some of DeLange's songs include Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 2:53
10. "Piensa en Mi" (Ruben Blades
    Rubén Blades
    Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...
    
    , Agustin Lara) – 2:55
11. "Quiéreme Mucho" (Augustin Rodriguez, Gonzalo Roig) – 3:23
12. "Perfidia" (Alberto Dominguez, Milton Leeds) – 3:44
13. "Te Quiero Dijiste" (Maria Mendez Grever) – 4:01

Personnel

• Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
  
   – vocals
• Tito Allen – background vocals
• Juan Jose Almaguer – vocals
• Jesús Guzmán – vocals
• Adalberto Santiago
  Adalberto Santiago
  Adalberto Santiago is a world famous salsa singer.He was born in barrio Pozas of Ciales, Puerto Rico. Adalberto's relaxed and flawless lead vocals are amongst the best in salsa, and for over two decades he has sessioned as a coro singer on countless New York recordings. His early influences...
  
   – vocals
• Bob Mann – guitar
• Oscar Meza – bass
• Gilberto Puente – guitar
• Joan Rotondi – piano
• Guillermo Edghill – bass
• Luis Conte
  Luis Conte
  Luis Conte is a Cuban percussionist.-Early years:As a child in Cuba, Conte began his musical odyssey playing the guitar. However, he soon switched to percussion, and that has remained his mode since....
  
   – percussion
• Walfredo de los Reyes – percussion
• Armando Peraza – percussion
• Pancho Roman – percussion
• Orestes Vilató – percussion
• Justo Almario – horn
• Gene Burkert – horn
• Dennis Farias – horn
• Ramon Flores – horn
• Daniel Fornero – horn
• Mike Turre – horn
• Arturo Velasco – horn
• Harry Kim – horn
• José Román – horn
• Joel Peskin – horn
• Debra Henry – strings
• James Hurley – strings
• Roxanna Jacobson – strings
• David Kadarauch – strings
• Clifton Foster – strings
• Ruth Freeman – strings
• Stuart Canin – strings
• Jeremy Cohen – strings
• Adrienne Duckworth – strings
• Jim Dukey – strings
• Joseph Edelberg – strings
• Ronald Erickson – strings
• Jenny Amador – strings
• Jeff Beal – strings
• William Klingelhofer – strings
• Bill Klingelhoffer – strings
• Katie McElrath – strings
• Sharon O'Connor – strings
• Irene Sazer – strings
• Rebecca Sebring – strings
• James Shallenberger – strings
• Greg Sudmeir – strings
• Mark Summer – strings
• John Tenney – strings
• Martha Henninger Rubin – strings
• Nathan Rubin – strings
• Virginia Price-Kvistad – strings

Production notes:

• Peter Asher
  Peter Asher
  Peter Asher is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a record producer.-Early life:He was born at the Central Middlesex Hospital, a child actor and...
  
   – producer, engineer
• George Massenburg
  George Massenburg
  George Y. Massenburg is a recording engineer and inventor. Working principally in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Macon, Georgia, Massenburg is widely known for his 1972 paper on the parametric equalizer.-Background:...
  
   – producer, mixing, engineer
• Ray Santos
  Ray Santos
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  – arranger
• David Gleeson – engineer
• Craig Silvey – engineer
• Brett Swain – engineer
• Nathaniel Kunkel – engineer
• Robert Blakeman – photography
• Kosh Art Direction – design