![]() and became a best-seller in many Central American territories. His second studio album, Jesús, Verbo No Sustantivo brought him commercial and critical success across Latin America and the U.S. The sessions immediately following this decision produced the song "S.O.S Rescátame". At age 24, Arjona reversed course and sought the opportunity to represent his country in the OTI Festival with the song "Con Una Estrella En El Vientre". Because of his negative experience recording the album and its commercial failure, he decided to abandon music to teach school. This album failed to chart, but received moderate praise from critics, with Allmusic awarding it three stars out of five. The title track was released as a single, "Déjame Decir Que Te Amo". The label attempted to portray Arjona as a stereotypical Latin lover. Music career 1980s: Beginnings and early breakthroughĪrjona began his musical career at age 21, when he signed with the now defunct, Guatemalan record label, Discos de Centroamérica, S.A., and distributed by PolyGram, and released his debut album Déjame Decir Que Te Amo in 1985. His work earned him numerous awards and accolades, including one Grammy Award, one Latin Grammy Award, the "Latin Heritage" Award as well as awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers a silver and golden torch and two silver seagulls from the 2010 Viña del Mar International Song Festival, two Billboard Latin Music Awards, and a "Latin Trajectory of the Year" Award at the Orgullosamente Latino Awards of 2010. Four singles had reached number one on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and seven had done the same on Latin Pop Songs. ![]() ![]() Four albums had charted on the Billboard 200. Four Arjona albums reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums, and ten reached number one in Argentina. Arjona is noted for his lyrical style, and often addresses topics such as love, sexuality, violence, racism and immigration.Īs of 2016, Arjona had released sixteen studio albums, one live album, nine compilation albums and forty-three singles. His music ranges from ballads to Latin pop, rock, pop rock, Cuban music, and more recently a cappella performances and a mixture of Tejano music and Norteño music, and other Afro-American and Latin sounds. He is often called El Animal Nocturno ( The Nocturnal Animal), thanks to his breakthrough success with his fourth studio album which bears the same name. Arjona is one of the most successful Latin American artists of all time, with more than 40 million albums sold. Arjona Morales (born 19 January 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona ( Spanish pronunciation: ), is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter and former basketball player and school teacher.
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