Chenoa
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María Laura Corradini Falomir, popularly known as Chenoa (born June 25, 1975 in Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...

, 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...

, but raised in Majorca, Spain
Spain
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) is a famous Argentine-Spanish
Spain
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 female music artist who became successful after appearing on the TV contest Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo is a reality-show talent contest which first aired on Spain's TVE network in 2001. A kind of cross between Pop Idol, Voces en Función, Star Search, and Big Brother, the show aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their...

. Her music style could be described in the United States
United States
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 as pop
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...

. Most of her music is in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, although a few tracks on some albums were recorded in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. Although her albums are not readily available in the U.S. record shelves as they are in Spain and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

, they can be found on the Internet. She has sold more than 1,000,000 records since 2002.

Biography

Chenoa was born in Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...

, 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...

 on June 25, 1975, although her family moved to Majorca, Spain, when she was seven. She grew up in a musical family; both parents were musicians who used to sing in hotels at live music shows. At the age of 16, Chenoa began to sing professionally, taking part in her parents' show. When her mother fell ill, Chenoa had to stand in for her.

She graduated as a nursery school
Nursery school
A nursery school is a school for children between the ages of one and five years, staffed by suitably qualified and other professionals who encourage and supervise educational play rather than simply providing childcare...

 teacher and started performing in the Casino de Mallorca shows when she was 20. There, Chenoa acquired a good stage presence before entering the first edition of the Spanish television show Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo
Operación Triunfo is a reality-show talent contest which first aired on Spain's TVE network in 2001. A kind of cross between Pop Idol, Voces en Función, Star Search, and Big Brother, the show aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their...

 (a talent-search contest for the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

) in 2001.

Her first album was Chenoa, released in April 2002 in Spain. The first single was Atrévete, a song whose English version is also included in the album as Mystify, but the greatest hit of this album was Cuando tú vas, played all over Spain in the summer of 2002. Chenoa sold over 500,000 copies in Spain after 61 weeks in the Top 100 chart, and she was nominated for the Spanish music industry awards Premios Amigo as best new female artist and best female artist. Year 2002 finished with a Spanish tour that included more than 90 dates. In April 2003, Chenoa competed in and won Eurobest, a European song contest in which she performed It's Raining Men
It's Raining Men
"It's Raining Men" is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer in 1979 originally for Dave Balfour's album Stars , and originally recorded by The Weather Girls in 1982...

.

The unplugged album Mis canciones favoritas was Chenoa's second album. It was recorded in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 in April 2003, and included some of her favorite songs such as Man in The Mirror, Respect, Chain of Fools, and Love of My Life. This CD + DVD was released on a limited edition of 100,000 copies.

Soy mujer was the title of her second studio album, recorded in Miami and Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

 in 2003. Pop, rock, Latin, Arab, and Anglo sounds are mixed in this album, which reached number one in the Spanish album chart and sold more than 250,000 copies after 47 weeks in the top 100. The album also charted in 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...

 reaching the number two position.

The singles released were En tu cruz me clavaste, Soy lo que me das, Siete pétalos, Dame (which topped the Spanish charts for three consecutive weeks in 2004), and Soy mujer. Chenoa was nominated again for the Premios Amigo award as best female artist and completed an 80-date tour in Spain. In 2004, she was nominated for the Tu Música award as best new artist in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

.

In May and June 2004, she started her Soy mujer promotional tour around Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Argentina. In December, she visited Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

, 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....

, and Dominican Republic
Dominican 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...

.

In April 2005, the Spanish Radio and Television Associations Federation awarded her the Micrófono de Oro 2005. Venezuela has also awarded Chenoa in 2005 with the Mara de Oro 2005 for the best new international artist of the year.

Chenoa's third studio album Nada es igual was released in November. Produced by Dado Parisini (Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini, is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian...

, Nek
Nek
Nek Minute is a popular contemporary Italian singer-songwriter....

, Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

), and recorded in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, this pop-rock album explored a new direction in Chenoa’s music. Nada es igual was not only a sample of her musical evolution, but also of her new personal challenge. Rutinas was the first single, which again reached number one in the Spanish charts. The album sold more than 100,000 copies in Spain after 21 weeks in the top 100 and was also promoted 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 other Latin-American countries. The following singles were Tengo para ti and Donde estés. 2006 finished with a Spanish tour of more than 40 locations.
Me enamoro del dolor was covered in English by Maria Arredondo
Maria Arredondo
Maria Arredondo is a Norwegian pop singer. The name Arredondo comes from her Chilean stepfather.-Career:Maria started her singing career early. By the age of 10, she had already participated in some local concerts in her home town Vennesla. After that, Maria spent some time developing her own style...

 and is called Even When You're With Me.

On October 9, 2007, Chenoa released her fifth studio album called Absurda Cenicienta, for which she wrote all the songs herself. The first single was Todo irá bien. The album peaked at number one in the iTunes Latin Albums and went to the number two position in the Spanish albums charts. It also received Gold certification in its first week in the Spanish album chart. The single Todo irá bien has topped the charts in Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Spain, etc. and a total of 12 countries.

On July 25, 2009, Chenoa's new single "Duele"  from her upcoming album, Desafiando la gravedad, premiered for the first time on Cadena Dial
Cadena Dial
Cadena Dial is a Spanish radio station based in Seville. The station belongs to the Spanish Media Group PRISA. It was founded in 1988 and broadcasts exclusively music in Spanish language....

.

She was selected to join Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....

 in his 2011 World Tour.

chenoa tiene ademas como proyecto consevir un hijo programado para diciembre del 2012, ya que dice es la mejor fecha, devido a que el mundo sufre de un panico terrible por la supuesta desaparicion del mundo en dicho año.
la controbertida artista dice ademas no le gustaria participar nunca en ningun video XxX como les a pasado a bastantes artistas como ella ultimamente, dice que "apesar de ser la moda no le gustaria que su hijo pudiera tener este tipo de informacion en sus manos" pero no descatra el que quisa alguna vez en su vida pudiera cometer el error, anticipandonos que apesar de negar o rechazar la opcion, la idea no deja de rondar su mente a demas uno nunca sabe que tantos numeros verdes este dispuesta a rechasar la argentina sensual, ya que solo pocos se resisten despues de ver la cantidad de ceros a la derecha en un cheque firmado con su nombre.

tambien se encuentra dentro de sus proyectos el realizar una campaña en contra del ocio ya que ella dice que las personas ociosas deberian de morirse por que no sirben para nada y solo estorban en el mundo, quiere fomentar el trabajo e inaugurara una constructora para darle trabajo a muchos albañiles en todo el mundo.

Current projects

  • Duele (Hurts) is Chenoa's brand new single for Spain from her upcoming album, "Desafiando la gravedad", was scheduled for release (on radio) on July 25, 2009. this album also includes songs titled; "me caes tam bien","como una postal", and "desafiando la gravedad"

  • Chenoa's new album, "Desafiando la gravedad", was scheduled for release on October 6, 2009 in Spain (spring 2010 worldwide).

  • Chenoa's first single for America is a duet with the Mexican pop star Gloria Trevi
    Gloria Trevi
    Gloria Trevi is a Mexican pop-rock singer-songwriter. She was described as the "Supreme Diva of the Mexican Pop" by the music channel VH1 and sold over 20 million records.-Biography:...

    .

  • Possibly Chenoa will be in the Spanish Preselection for Eurovision 2011, where the fans in November 2010, rated her as their favourite for Düsseldorf.

Albums

Year Album Peak Certifications
SPA
2002 Chenoa (album)
Chenoa (album)
Chenoa is the debut album from Spanish artist Chenoa, recorded in Miami, Madrid, London, Bratislava and Milan at the months of March and April 2002, after she left the Operación Triunfo academy as the fourth finalist....

2
SPA
PROMUSICAE
Spanish Music Producers is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry...

: 4x Multi-platinum
2003 "Mis Canciones Favoritas
Mis Canciones Favoritas
Mis Canciones Favoritas is a 2003 unplugged acoustic performance by Spanish musician Chenoa released as an album and DVD....

" (unplugged)
4
SPA: Gold
2003 Soy Mujer
Soy Mujer
Soy Mujer , is the third album released by Chenoa , following Chenoa and the unplugged album Mis Canciones Favoritas. It was recorded in Miami and Madrid from July to September 2003. That's a pop, rock, dance, and Latin album, all mixed with Arab and anglosaxon sounds...

1
SPA: 2x Multi-platinum
2005 Nada Es Igual
Nada Es Igual (Chenoa album)
Nada Es Igual is the third studio album from Spanish artist Chenoa, recorded in Milan at the summer of 2005 and produced by the prestigious Dado Parisini....

6
SPA: Platinum
2007 Absurda Cenicienta
Absurda Cenicienta
Absurda Cenicienta is the fourth studio album by the Spanish artist Chenoa. It has been released on 9 October 2007 in Spain. This time, Chenoa has written and/or co-written every single track on the album, that continues with the pop/rock direction started with Nada es Igual.The album was...

2
SPA: Gold
2009 Desafiando la gravedad
Desafiando la gravedad
Desafiando la gravedad is the 5th studio album by the Spanish singer Chenoa. The album was composed and written by Chenoa's herself, in collaboration with the producers Mauricio Gasca and Yoel Henriquez, and recorded in July 2009 in Miami....

3
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Singles

Year Single Position Album
ESP
Los 40 Principales
Los 40 Principales is the main musical radio station in Spain with more than 4,000,000 listeners. The station was founded in 1966 and in 2006 the station celebrated its 40th anniversary...

ARG
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...

CHL
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...

COL
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...

MEX
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...

COR
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....

ECU
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

PRI
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

PER
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....

URU
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

VEN
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...

2002 "Atrévete" 1 4 Chenoa
Chenoa (album)
Chenoa is the debut album from Spanish artist Chenoa, recorded in Miami, Madrid, London, Bratislava and Milan at the months of March and April 2002, after she left the Operación Triunfo academy as the fourth finalist....

"Cuando tú vas" 1 14
"Yo te daré" 18
"El centro de mi amor" 28
2003 "Desnuda frente a ti" 8 Mis canciones favoritas
Mis Canciones Favoritas
Mis Canciones Favoritas is a 2003 unplugged acoustic performance by Spanish musician Chenoa released as an album and DVD....

"En tu cruz me clavaste" 1 1 Soy mujer
Soy Mujer
Soy Mujer , is the third album released by Chenoa , following Chenoa and the unplugged album Mis Canciones Favoritas. It was recorded in Miami and Madrid from July to September 2003. That's a pop, rock, dance, and Latin album, all mixed with Arab and anglosaxon sounds...

2004 "Soy lo que me das" 13
"Siete pétalos" 10
"Dame" 4
"Soy mujer" 21
2005 "Rutinas" 1 100 Nada es igual
Nada Es Igual
Nada Es Igual may refer to :* Nada Es Igual , by Mexican artist Luis Miguel* Nada Es Igual , by Venezuelan artist Franco De Vita]* Nada Es Igual , by Spanish artist Chenoa...

2006 "Tengo para ti" 16 7
"Donde estés..."
2007 "Todo irá bien" 6 17 11 6 18 1 1 1 1 3 Absurda Cenicienta
Absurda Cenicienta
Absurda Cenicienta is the fourth studio album by the Spanish artist Chenoa. It has been released on 9 October 2007 in Spain. This time, Chenoa has written and/or co-written every single track on the album, that continues with the pop/rock direction started with Nada es Igual.The album was...

2008 "El bolsillo del revés" 14 89 1 4 2
"Absurda cenicienta" 94 46 1 2 1 1
2009 "Duele
Duele (Chenoa song)
Duele is the lead single from Chenoa's 5th studio album, Desafiando la gravedad. The single premiered for the first time on July 25, 2009 on Cadena Dial. The song has been described by Universal Music as a strong and heartbreaking ballad....

"
14 Desafiando la gravedad
Desafiando la gravedad
Desafiando la gravedad is the 5th studio album by the Spanish singer Chenoa. The album was composed and written by Chenoa's herself, in collaboration with the producers Mauricio Gasca and Yoel Henriquez, and recorded in July 2009 in Miami....

"Buenas noticias" 56 11 13 1
2011 "Como un fantasma" 14 Upcoming album
"—" the song did not chart

DVDs

Year DVD information DVD contents
2006 Contigo Donde Estés
Contigo Donde Estés
Contigo Donde Estés is a Live DVD+CD based on the Chenoa's 2006 Nada Es Igual Tour. The DVD is filmed at the successful concert that the artist performs at the Coliseu Balear of Palma de Mallorca at September 16, 2006...

  • Release date: December, 2006
  • SPA peak: #6
  • SPA Certification: Gold
  • Live Concert In Palma de Mallorca
  • Nada Es Igual Tour Documentary film
  • Photo Gallery

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