Todo A Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)
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Todo a su tiempo is the second studio album by American recording artist Marc Anthony
, released by RMM Records
on May 30, 1995. The album was produced by Sergio George
, who was also involved with production of Anthony's debut studio album, Otra Nota
. The album comprises of five new compositions, three of which were written by Omar Alfanno, and four cover versions. Eight singles were released from the album, all of which topped the Billboard Tropical Songs chart.
Todo a su tiempo peaked at number six on the Billboard Latin Albums chart and debuted at number one on the Billboard Tropical Albums
chart. The album garnered critical praise as a major improvement over his first album and for revolutionizing the salsa music
genre. It received a Grammy
nomination, a Billboard Latin Music
award, and a Lo Nuestro
award. Two years later, the album made history as the first salsa disc to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA). Since the album's release, it has sold over 800,000 copies.
, in 1993, Anthony continued to work with producer Sergio George
for the recording of Todo a su tiempo. Recording for the album took place at the Sound on Sound Studios and the
Quad Recording Studios in New York City
. According to George, Otra Nota was an experimental album and was on a low budget.
George allowed Anthony to choose his own material and described the recording as more "mixed and aggressive". Anthony described naming the album:
musician Víctor Víctor. The song incorporates the sound of bachata-influenced bolero
. "Se me sigue olvidando" ("I'm Still Forgetting") was first performed by José Feliciano
on his 1986 album, Te amaré. "Por amar se da todo" ("To Love Gives Everything") was performed by Danny Rivera
on the 1993 album of the same name. Manny Delgado wrote the song "Hasta ayer" ("Until Yesterday") for the Venezuela
n pop band Los Terrícolas
in 1979. In the album, Anthony recorded the song as a bolero
. "Te amaré" ("I Will Love You") was written by The Barrio Boyzz member Angel Ramirez Jr. for their 1993 album, Donde quiera donde estes.
. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard Latin Albums chart for the week of June 17, 1995. The same week, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard Tropical Albums
and remained in that position for five consecutive weeks. A year later, the album returned to number one on the chart, and held the position for a total of six non-consecutive weeks. It was third-best-selling tropical album of 1996 in the United States.
During the week of April 12, 1997, the album once again reached number one the chart and held the position for four weeks. Two years after the album was released, it became the first salsa disc to receive a gold certification by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 units. The album has sold over 800,000 copies as of 2001.
chart and became his first number-one single on the Billboard Tropical Song chart. The song spent eight weeks on top of the chart and was named the best-performing tropical song of the year. The second single, "Se me sigue olvidando", reached number six on the Billlboard Latin Songs chart. It became his second number-one single on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart; it spent six weeks on top of the chart. The third single, "Nadie como ella" , peaked at number thirteen on the Billboard Latin songs and became his third number-one on the Tropical Songs chart. The fourth single, "Te amaré", reached number six on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the Tropical Songs chart. The fifth single, "Llegaste a mi" , reached number eleven on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart. "Hasta ayer" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and was number one on the Billboard Tropical Songs for three weeks. As the song was a bolero, RMM executive Ralph Mercado
responded to the success of the song by stating that Anthony was no longer just a salsa musician. The seventh single, "Por amar se da todo", peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard Latin Songs and at number one on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart. The last single, "Vieja mesa", peaked at number seven on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart.
of the Chicago Tribune
gave the album a four-star rating and enjoyed how Anthony put a variety of sounds, including hip-hop and R&B, to "good use". She referred to "Hasta ayer" as an "an oldie but goodie totally transformed by soulful crooning". Billboards mentioned Anthony as "grafting his muy soulful baritone onto vivid romantic narratives" and acknowledged "Nadie como ella" and "Se me sigue olvidando" as "upbeat". Nestor Louis of Palo Salsero found the lyrics to be "emotionally charged with authenticity" and the music "exceptional", although he stated that the album at times felt "a little hollow and dry". A writer for the Village Voice penned that the tracks were "nine swirling, complex dance tunes".
At the 38th Grammy Awards, the album received a nomination for "Best Tropical Latin Performance", which was awarded to Gloria Estefan
's Abriendo Puertas. Anthony received two Billboard Latin Music Awards
, including "Tropical/Salsa Album of the Year" and "Tropical/Salsa Hot Latin Track of the Year" for the song "Te conozco bien". In 1997, the album received a Lo Nuestro award for "Tropical Album of the Year". George left RMM Records in 1996 to form his own record studio and did not work with Anthony again until the release of Valió la pena in 2004.
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...
, released by RMM Records
RMM Records & Video
RMM Records, also known as RMM Records & Video Corp, was an independent Latin music record label based in New York City, The record label was formed originally as RMM Management by one of Fania Records promoter Ralph Mercado, but in 1987 it started operating as a record label, with Angelito...
on May 30, 1995. The album was produced by Sergio George
Sergio George
Sergio George is a pianist and record producer, known for working with many famous performers of salsa music, although he has worked in other genres as well...
, who was also involved with production of Anthony's debut studio 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...
. The album comprises of five new compositions, three of which were written by Omar Alfanno, and four cover versions. Eight singles were released from the album, all of which topped the Billboard Tropical Songs chart.
Todo a su tiempo peaked at number six on the Billboard Latin Albums chart and debuted at number one on the Billboard Tropical Albums
Tropical Albums
Tropical Albums is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. Established in June 1985, the chart compiles information about the top-selling albums in genres like salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, and vallenato, which are frequently considered tropical music...
chart. The album garnered critical praise as a major improvement over his first album and for revolutionizing the salsa music
Salsa music
Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...
genre. It received a Grammy
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nomination, a Billboard Latin Music
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...
award, and a Lo Nuestro
Lo Nuestro Awards
Lo Nuestro is an awards show honoring the best of Latin music, presented by television network Univision. The awards began in 1989. Notable recipients include Selena, Gloria Estefan, Juan Gabriel, Olga Tañón, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, Juanes, Laura Pausini, Luis Miguel, Maná, Juan Luis Guerra, ...
award. Two years later, the album made history as the first salsa disc to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
(RIAA). Since the album's release, it has sold over 800,000 copies.
Background
Following the release of his debut album, Otra notaOtra 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, Anthony continued to work with producer Sergio George
Sergio George
Sergio George is a pianist and record producer, known for working with many famous performers of salsa music, although he has worked in other genres as well...
for the recording of Todo a su tiempo. Recording for the album took place at the Sound on Sound Studios and the
Quad Recording Studios in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. According to George, Otra Nota was an experimental album and was on a low budget.
George allowed Anthony to choose his own material and described the recording as more "mixed and aggressive". Anthony described naming the album:
Composition and covers
The album comprises nine tracks, four of which are covers of songs previously recorded by several performers. Panamanian songwriter Omar Alfanno composed three tracks from the album: "Te conozco bien" ("I Know You Well"), "Nadie como ella" ("Nobody Like Her"), and "Llegaste a mi" ("You Came to Me"). The ballad "Y sigues siendo tu" ("And You Still Being You") was composed by Puerto Rican composers Eduardo Reyes, Laura Reyes, and Guadalupe Garcia. "Vieja mesa" ("Old Table") was composed by DominicanDominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
musician Víctor Víctor. The song incorporates the sound of bachata-influenced bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...
. "Se me sigue olvidando" ("I'm Still Forgetting") was first performed by José Feliciano
José Feliciano
José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...
on his 1986 album, Te amaré. "Por amar se da todo" ("To Love Gives Everything") was performed by Danny Rivera
Danny Rivera
Danny Rivera is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter who was born in San Juan whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is well-known in Puerto Rico for his political activism.-Musical career:...
on the 1993 album of the same name. Manny Delgado wrote the song "Hasta ayer" ("Until Yesterday") for the Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n pop band Los Terrícolas
Los Terrícolas
Los Terrícolas are a Venezuelan pop music group. American music critic Craig Harris has called them "one of Venezuela's top dance bands".The group's name means "The Earthlings" in Spanish. They formed in the early 1970s in Moron, Carabobo, built around three brothers: Johnny, David, and Lenny...
in 1979. In the album, Anthony recorded the song as a bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...
. "Te amaré" ("I Will Love You") was written by The Barrio Boyzz member Angel Ramirez Jr. for their 1993 album, Donde quiera donde estes.
Album
Todo a su tiempo was released on May 30, 1995, in the United States and was distributed by Sony Music until 1996, when it was distributed by Universal Music GroupUniversal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard Latin Albums chart for the week of June 17, 1995. The same week, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard Tropical Albums
Tropical Albums
Tropical Albums is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. Established in June 1985, the chart compiles information about the top-selling albums in genres like salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, and vallenato, which are frequently considered tropical music...
and remained in that position for five consecutive weeks. A year later, the album returned to number one on the chart, and held the position for a total of six non-consecutive weeks. It was third-best-selling tropical album of 1996 in the United States.
During the week of April 12, 1997, the album once again reached number one the chart and held the position for four weeks. Two years after the album was released, it became the first salsa disc to receive a gold certification by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 units. The album has sold over 800,000 copies as of 2001.
Singles
"Te conozco bien" was the lead single from the album. It peaked at number seven on the Billboard Latin SongHot Latin Songs
Hot Latin Songs is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. It is often recognized as the most important music chart for Spanish language Latin music in the American music market. It was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986 with La Guirnalda by Rocío Dúrcal being the first song...
chart and became his first number-one single on the Billboard Tropical Song chart. The song spent eight weeks on top of the chart and was named the best-performing tropical song of the year. The second single, "Se me sigue olvidando", reached number six on the Billlboard Latin Songs chart. It became his second number-one single on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart; it spent six weeks on top of the chart. The third single, "Nadie como ella" , peaked at number thirteen on the Billboard Latin songs and became his third number-one on the Tropical Songs chart. The fourth single, "Te amaré", reached number six on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the Tropical Songs chart. The fifth single, "Llegaste a mi" , reached number eleven on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart. "Hasta ayer" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and was number one on the Billboard Tropical Songs for three weeks. As the song was a bolero, RMM executive Ralph Mercado
Ralph Mercado
Ralph Mercado Jr. was a promoter of Latin American music — Latin Jazz, Latin rock, merengue and salsa — who established a network of businesses that included promoting concerts, managing artists, Radio Mundo Musical a record label the most important in the Latin industry during 1980-1990, film...
responded to the success of the song by stating that Anthony was no longer just a salsa musician. The seventh single, "Por amar se da todo", peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard Latin Songs and at number one on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart. The last single, "Vieja mesa", peaked at number seven on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart.
Critical reception
Todo a su tiempo received praise from music critics. Evan Gutierrez of Allmusic gave the album a 4.5 out of 5 stars, praising the album as a step forward over Otra nota. He described Anthony's voice as "soaring" and "luminescent". He cited the album as setting the bar for salsa music and closed the review by it calling the album "without question one of the finest salsa records of the '90s". David Wilson of Wilson and Alroy's Record Review felt the album was an improvement from his last album, and commended the George's arrangements as "varied and interesting". He referred "Por amar se da todo" as a song that "doesn't let up" and "Nadie como ella" as "obvious, but catchy". Of the song "Y sigues siendo tu", Wilson said that Anthony is " one of the few current male singers who can really make you believe in a sappy ballad". Achy ObejasAchy Obejas
Achy Obejas is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Chicago, Illinois.-Life and career:Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba...
of the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
gave the album a four-star rating and enjoyed how Anthony put a variety of sounds, including hip-hop and R&B, to "good use". She referred to "Hasta ayer" as an "an oldie but goodie totally transformed by soulful crooning". Billboards mentioned Anthony as "grafting his muy soulful baritone onto vivid romantic narratives" and acknowledged "Nadie como ella" and "Se me sigue olvidando" as "upbeat". Nestor Louis of Palo Salsero found the lyrics to be "emotionally charged with authenticity" and the music "exceptional", although he stated that the album at times felt "a little hollow and dry". A writer for the Village Voice penned that the tracks were "nine swirling, complex dance tunes".
At the 38th Grammy Awards, the album received a nomination for "Best Tropical Latin Performance", which was awarded to Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
's Abriendo Puertas. Anthony received two 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...
, including "Tropical/Salsa Album of the Year" and "Tropical/Salsa Hot Latin Track of the Year" for the song "Te conozco bien". In 1997, the album received a Lo Nuestro award for "Tropical Album of the Year". George left RMM Records in 1996 to form his own record studio and did not work with Anthony again until the release of Valió la pena in 2004.
Track listing
Credits and personnel
The following credits are from Allmusic and from Todo a su tiempo liner notes.Chart performance
| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Latin Albums | 6 |
| U.S. Billboard Tropical Albums Tropical Albums Tropical Albums is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. Established in June 1985, the chart compiles information about the top-selling albums in genres like salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, and vallenato, which are frequently considered tropical music... |
1 |
Certification
Release history
| Region | Date | Format | Label | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | CD, cassette | Soho Latino, Sony | ||
| United States | CD, cassette | RMM Records | B00000123U | |
| Canada | ||||
| United Kingdom | ||||
| France | CD | B00004VM76 | ||
| United States | CD, remastered | Universal Music Latino Universal Music Latin Entertainment Universal Music Latin Entertainment is a record label owned by Universal Music Group. The music label was created with the acquisition of Univision Music Group and combining it with Universal's top Latin artists, along with much of the Latin back catalog of UMG.UMLE includes famous Latin music... |
B0000C3I32 | |
| Spain | CD, remastered | Universal Music Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations... |
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See also
- List of number-one Billboard Tropical Albums from the 1990s
- Music of Puerto RicoMusic of Puerto RicoThe music of Puerto Rico has been influenced by the Spanish, African, Taíno Indians, France, and the United States, and has become very popular across the Caribbean and across the globe...