Piel de Ángel is the thirteenth album

Album

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 from Mexican

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer and actress Lucero. It was released on 1997.

For this album, the singer choose to work with Italian producers Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio to achieve a new sound on her music, since she had already three back to back ballad albums written and produced by Spanish songwriter Rafael Pérez-Botija.

Piel de Ángel was released just after Lucero's wedding with Manuel Mijares

Manuel Mijares

Manuel Mijares , is a popular Spanish-language singer who is billed simply as "Mijares." He launched his career at age 23. He is currently separated from singer/actress Lucero, with whom he has two children.-Biography:He was born in Hospital Español in Mexico City...

 (one of the highest rated events 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...

 history), and was another successful recording for her, selling 500,000 copies only in her native country.

Gerardo Flores wrote seven out of eleven tracks included on the project, including an adaptation of the "Il Postino

Il Postino

Il Postino is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the U.S. as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title...

" score, written by Luis Bacalov, by Lucero's request, since her mother was a big fan of the movie.

As usual for a first single for the singer albums, "Tácticas de Guerra" (War Tactics) and hit the #1 spot 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...

 and also the #13 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart.

The track "Si Tú Llegaras a Amarme" (If You Would Love Me) is the result of a contest in México for the soap opera

Soap opera

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 "Lazos de Amor

Lazos de Amor

Lazos de Amor was a Mexican telenovela from 1995. It aired on Televisa, and starred actress and singer Lucero.-Plot:The story centers around María Guadalupe, María Paula and María Fernanda, identical triplets with non-identical, complex personalities. Their parents were killed in a car accident...

" (also starring Lucero).

"Quiero" (I Want) was released as second single reaching #8 in Mexico. The third single "Toda la Noche" (All Night Long) had a first video directed by Adolfo Pérez Butrón, the photographer behind almost every cover of the artist albums.

On her second live album

Live album

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 Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional

Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional

Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional is the second live album by Mexican singer Lucero, released on 26 September 2007 by EMI. It was recorded in Mexico City in the Auditorio Nacional during the promotion of her album Quiéreme Tal Como Soy on March 25 of 2007. It was released in two different formats,...

the track "Historias de Amores" (Love Stories) and the single "Tácticas de Guerra" appears on the setlist.

Track listing

The album is composed by 11 songs, all of them were arranged and produced by different composers.

Singles

#	Title	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...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... Hot Lat.	United States Lat.Air Latin Pop Airplay Latin Pop Airplay is a record chart published on Billboard magazine. It features Latin music information from pop music usually in Spanish. It was established by the magazine on October 8, 1994 with Mañana by Cristian Castro being the first song to reach number-one...	Argentina Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...	Costa Rica Costa Rica Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....	Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...	Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...	Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....	Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
1.	"Tácticas de guerra"	1	13	2	2	1	3	8	1	1
2.	"Quiero"	#8	n/a	n/a	25	n/a	12	n/a	31	11
3.	"Toda la noche"	#16	n/a	n/a	10	1	5	1	2	1
4.	"Piel de ángel"	#2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15	9	n/a	6
5.	"Una vez más"	#10	n/a	n/a	13	5	10	3	2	1

Chart performance

This was the 7th album of Lucero that entered to the list of Billboard

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 and the last album of pop music to do so, until after 13 years later she entered with Indispensable

Indispensable

Indispensable is the nineteenth studio album by Mexican singer Lucero. The album was released on September 21, 2010 in the United States and Mexico. It debuted at number 1 on iTunes the same date of its release, it became Lucero's first number 1 album on that list...

. The album stayed in the chart of the Latin Pop Albums for 9 weeks, peaking #12; and it stayed in the Top Latin Albums for 13 weeks, peaking at #28.

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Personnel

• Production: Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio from Destino SRL
• Recorded at: Studio L’isola (Milan, Italy) by Bruno Malasoma; Soundabout Studio (LA) by Claudio Guidetti and Rodolfo Vazquez.
• Strings recording: Olympic Studios (London) by Pete Lewis and Adam Brown
• Mixing: Studio L’isola by Bruno Melasoma and Claudio Guidetti
• Mastering: Nautilus (Milan) by Antonio Baglio
• Executive producer: Tina Galindo
• Production coordinator: Sylvia Cantarell
• Photography: Adolfo Pérez Butrón
• Wardrobe: Beatriz Calles, Sarah Bustani and Keko
• Graphic design: Varela design.

Musicians

• Drums: Elio Rivagli
• Bass: Flavio Scopaz
• Guitars, piano and keyboards: Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio
• Electric guitar: Andrea Braido
• Sax: Emanuele Cisi
• Backing vocals: Emanuela Cortesi, Monica Magnani, Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio
• Violin: Lucio Fabbri, Russel Gilbert and Mario de Monte
• Strings arrangement: Maurizio Fabrizio