Navidades is a Christmas album by mexican singer
Luis MiguelLuis Miguel Gallego Basteri, known as Luis Miguel, is a Puerto Rican-born, Mexican-raised singer. He is best known for his gifted vocals, and for being one of the most popular singers from Latin America, having performed successfully pop music, bolero, mariachi and romantic ballads...
released in November 14th, 2006.
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Navidades is a Christmas album by mexican singer
Luis MiguelLuis Miguel Gallego Basteri, known as Luis Miguel, is a Puerto Rican-born, Mexican-raised singer. He is best known for his gifted vocals, and for being one of the most popular singers from Latin America, having performed successfully pop music, bolero, mariachi and romantic ballads...
released in November 14th, 2006.
The album is the first "Christmas" album released by the singer and peaked at #51 on the
Billboard 200 Chart. Two promo singles were released:
"Mi Humilde Oración" and
"Santa Claus Llegó a la Ciudad". The album was produced by Luis Miguel. Longtime collaborator Juan Carlos Calderón (along with Edgar Cortázar) did all the Spanish adaptations of the tracks.
This album received a
Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
nomination for
Best Latin Pop AlbumThe Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album has been awarded since 1984. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop Performance*From 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album...
at the
50th Grammy AwardsThe 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2008. Amy Winehouse was the big winner; winning a total of five awards. Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters won Album of the Year, marking the first time in 43 years that a jazz album...
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Track listing
| # |
Title |
Composer |
Time |
| 1 |
Santa Claus Llegó A La Ciudad (Santa Claus Is Coming to Town "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is a Christmas song. It was written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie, and was first sung on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934....
) |
Fred Coots/Naven Gillespie/Juan Carlos Calderón |
1:56 |
| 2 |
Te Deseo Muy Felices Fiestas (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a Christmas song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original...
) |
Martin Blane/Juan Carlos Calderón |
4:15 |
| 3 |
Frente A La Chimenea (Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReindeerRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a character created in a story and song by the same name. The story was created by Robert L. May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward....
) |
Edgar Cortázar/Johnny Marks |
1:54 |
| 4 |
Blanca Navidad (White ChristmasA white Christmas, to most people in the Northern Hemisphere, refers to a Christmas Morning with snow on the ground. This phenomenon is far more common in some countries than in others...
) |
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
/Juan Carlos Calderón |
3:30 |
| 5 |
Navidad, Navidad (Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" is one of the best known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and copyrighted under the title 'One Horse Open Sleigh' on September 16 1857. Despite being inextricably connected to Christmas, it is not specifically a Christmas song...
) |
Traditional/Juan Carlos Calderón |
2:34 |
| 6 |
Estaré En Mi Casa Esta Navidad (I'll Be Home for Christmas) |
Buck Ram/Kim Gannon/Walter Kent/Juan Carlos Calderón |
2:48 |
| 7 |
Mi Humilde Oración "Grown-Up Christmas List" is a Christmas song composed by David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner , and originally recorded by Foster for Foster's 1990 non-holiday album River of Love. Even though it was also released as a single, the song was not a hit upon its first appearance...
|
David Foster David Walter Foster, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and arranger.-Career:Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, whose song “Wildflower” was a top ten hit in 1972...
/Linda Thompson |
3:18 |
| 8 |
Va A Nevar (Let It Snow "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in 1945...
) |
Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn |
1:52 |
| 9 |
Sonríe (SmileA smile is a facial expression formed by flexing those muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes . Among humans, it is customarily an expression denoting pleasure, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in...
) |
Charles ChaplinJule Styne/Sammy Cahn |
3:07 |
| 10 |
Llegó La Navidad (Winter Wonderland "Winter Wonderland" is a pop standard written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith . It has been recorded many different times by such artists as Tom Astor, George Strait, Tony Bennett, Karen Carpenter, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Dylan, Eurythmics, Elvis Presley,...
) |
Dick Smith/Felix Bernard |
2:05 |
| 11 |
Noche De Paz (Silent Night"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in German by the Austrian priest Father Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber. In 1859, John Freeman Young published the English translation that is...
) |
Traditional/Juan Carlos Calderón |
3:39 |
Chart performance
| Chart (2006) |
Peak
position |
| Spanish PROMUSICAE Album Chart |
4 |
| US Billboard Top Latin Albums Top Latin Albums is a record chart published by Billboard magazine and is labeled as the most important music chart for Spanish language, full-length albums in the American music market. Like all Billboard album charts, the chart is based on sales. Nielsen SoundScan compiles the sales data from...
|
1 |
| US Billboard Latin Pop Albums |
1 |
| US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
|
51 |
| US Billboard European Top 100 Albums |
82 |
| US Billboard Top Holiday Albums |
7 |