Romance is the eighth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel
(pictured), released by WEA Latina in 1991. At the suggestion of his
manager, he recorded classic boleros on the album, after songwriter Juan
Carlos Calderón pulled out of a collaboration on pop songs and ballads.
Singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero co-produced the album with Miguel,
with arrangements by Bebu Silvetti. Miguel promoted the record with a
tour of the United States and Latin America. The songs were generally
well received by music critics, who praised the singing and production,
and Miguel received a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Pop Album.
Romance sold over seven million copies worldwide. In the United States,
it spent 32 weeks at number one on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart,
and was the first Spanish-language album by a non-crossover Latin artist
to be certified gold; it was also certified gold in Brazil and Taiwan.
Romance is the third-bestselling album of all time in Mexico, and the
bestselling record in Argentina by a non-native artist. The album
revived interest in bolero music, and Miguel released three more bolero
records between 1994 and 2001.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_(Luis_Miguel_album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on
Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico>
1816:
The University of Warsaw, the largest university in Poland, was
established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without a
university.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Warsaw>
1942:
World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the
Battle of Stalingrad, with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning
the tide of the battle in the Soviet Union's favour.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Uranus>
1985:
Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and US President
Ronald Reagan (both pictured) held the first of five summit meetings
between them in Geneva.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Summit_(1985)>
2005:
Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred
twenty-four people in the town of Haditha in Iraq.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
trite:
Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is
commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away
from.
--Jodie Foster
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster>