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Alejandro Sanz

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Alejandro Sanz
Background information
Birth name	Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro
Born	18 December 1968 (1968-12-18) (age 42)
Origin	Madrid, Spain
Genres	Latin Pop
Occupations	Singer, Songwriter
Instruments	Singing, Guitar, Piano
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Warner Music Benelux
Associated acts	Juanes, Shakira, Alicia Keys
Website	AlejandroSanz.com

Alejandro Sanz (born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18, 1968), is a Spanish singer-songwriter and musician. Alejandro Sanz has won a total of 15 Latin Grammy Awards and 3 Grammy Awards. He has won the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year three times, more than any other artist. He has released a total of 10 albums and 6 DVDs.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Recording career 3 Personal life 4 Discography 4.1 Studio albums

 Early life

Alejandro lived in Madrid's district of Moratalaz. According to his childhood friends, he was always really fond of music, in fact, he used to sing on top of the bridge connecting Moratalaz to La Estrella, another district of Madrid, imagining he was on stage. This bridge is currently named "The bridge of the broken heart" after one of his most famous songs. He says he used to play guitar so much, that one day his mother, tired of all the noise, broke his guitar. To fix it, he stamped the photo of a bird from a camera commercial, after which his friends started calling him "the boy with the little bird".

Recording career

Sanz's career began in late 1988 when he recorded the album "Los chulos son pa' cuidarlos" (roughly "cocky guys are to be looked after") under the name of Alejandro Magno (Spanish for "Alexander the Great"). The album, which back then went unnoticed, is nowadays reassessed. It is full of simple and unelaborated melodies, flamenco vocal moanings in a tone of humor, techno-rumba in-da-house with exciting, free and easy lyrics, all of which are absolutely not comparable to his posterior work. The album's cover shows Alejandro Sanz suited with a bullfighter's jacket, while the album's back cover shows Alejandro suited with another "traje de luces" (traditional clothing worn by Spanish bullfighters) on top of a T-shirt stamped with a smiley face (the emblem of acid house). A little later, in 1990, Alejandro worked together with Tino Casal in the second album of Juan Carlos Valenciaga "Como un placer" (like a pleasure). When Tino Casal died, one of his friends gave Alejandro a methacrylate walking stick that Casal used on the time of «Eloise» and which Alejandro keeps with utmost care in his house.

 Personal life

Sanz was married to Jaydy Michel, a Mexican fashion model and actress with whom he had a daughter. Sanz and Michel married in Bali on December 30, 1999, but this marriage was never legally recognized in either of their home countries. The couple divorced in 2005. Their daughter, Manuela Sánchez Michel, was born in 2001.
While married to Michel, Sanz had a son named Alexander with Valeria Rivera, a Puerto Rican fashion designer. Over the years, when interviewed by the media, Rivera has asked Sanz to legally recognize his son and develop a closer relationship with him, but Sanz has refused to do so.
He has been dating his personal assistant Raquel Pereda, since 2007.

 Discography

 Studio albums

• 1989: Los Chulos Son Pa' Cuidarlos
• 1991: Viviendo Deprisa
• 1993: Si tú me miras
• 1993: Básico
• 1995: 3
• 1997: Más

In 1997 Sanz received one Amigo Award (best national male artist), the Ondas Award (best national artist), and was granted several Spanish Music Awards, as Best National Artist, Best Composer, Best Album for Más, and Best Single and Best Video for "Corazón Partío". One year after the release of Más, Sanz was granted another Amigo Award in the category of Special Tribute, and received a new Ondas Award for Best Song for "Corazón Partío".
In 1999 Sanz was named Best Selling Spanish Artist at the World Music Awards. He was awarded a Gold Recording and a Platinum Recording in the USA and launched a DVD which sold more than 500,000 copies in Spain. "Corazón Partío", the third single taken from this album, became an international hit, topping charts in 18 countries. For 67 weeks, it was the best-selling album in Spain, where Sanz gave 56 concerts (four of them at Madrid's Las Ventas Bullring). He also started a tour through Latin America and received his second Platinum Europe Award in Brussels, presented by former President of the European Community Romano Prodi, after having sold 2 million copies of Más in Europe. The album has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide to date.

• 2000: El alma al aire

This release broke all selling records in the Spanish recording market, selling one million copies in the first week. It was nominated in the category of "Best Latin Pop Album" in the 43rd edition of the Grammy Awards; and it swept the 2nd edition of the Latin Grammy Awards, being granted four awards: Recording of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year.
In 2001, El Alma Al Aire was released in a special edition including Sanz's duets with Irish band The Corrs.
The worldwide tour of El Alma Al Aire started on February 17, 2001 in Caracas, Venezuela. For two months, Sanz visited numerous Latin American stages, with shows in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Argentina, to huge success. He offered 24 concerts, 9 of them at the prestigious Auditorio Nacional in México City, attended by 100,000 people. The first stage of the tour ended in Argentina, where 35,000 people packed Vélez Sarsfield Stadium in Buenos Aires. In May, Sanz toured throughout the USA, playing in such legendary stages as New York's Radio City Music Hall, where the concert was sold out. Other towns included in his American tour were Miami, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, McAllen and El Paso.
In June Sanz started touring in Spain, playing in the main Spanish capitals. He achieved unprecedented attendance at these shows; more than 400,000 people pressed together in football stadiums. One of his most popular concerts was held at Madrid's Vicente Calderón Stadium, where, some days before the show, the 60,000 tickets for the concert were sold out.

• 2003: No Es Lo Mismo

In 2002, Sanz was granted the Oye Award for Best Male Pop Artist at Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional. With MTV Unplugged he gathered 3 Latin Grammy Awards (Album of the Year, Recording of the Year and Song of the Year for "Y Sólo Se Me Ocurre Amarte"). After having sold more than 250,000 copies of his MTV Unplugged album in the USA and after having the No. 1 in the "Top Latin Albums" Billboard chart, Sanz returned to touring with four shows in the USA in June 2002.
For the second time in a year, he held a concert at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, gaining critical applause and praise from the audience. The rest of the concerts were held in Los Angeles (Greek Theatre), Miami (James L. Knight Center) and San Diego (SDSU Open Air Theatre) and were completely sold out.
Alejandro Sanz was also awarded 3 Spanish Music Awards (Best Song for "Y Sólo Se Me Ocurre Amarte," Best Album for MTV Unplugged and Best Video for "El Alma Al Aire"), the Luna Award (México) for Best International Ballad and the Gardel Award (Argentina) for the Best Male Artist and the Album of the Year for MTV Unplugged.

• 2006: El Tren De Los Momentos
• 2009: Paraíso Express

Corazón Partío

Alejandro Sanz

Tiritas pa este corazón partío (tirititando de frio)
Tiritas pa este corazón partío, (pa este corazón)
Ya lo ves, que no hay dos sin tres,
Que la vida va y viene y que no se detiene...
Y, qué sé yo
Pero miénteme aunque sea dime que algo queda
Entre nosotros dos, que en tu habitación
Nunca sale el sol, no existe el tiempo ni el dolor
Llévame si quieres a perder, a ningún destino, sin ningún por qué
Ya lo sé, que corazón que no ve,
Es corazón que no siente,
El corazón que te miente amor.
Pero, sabes que en lo más profundo de mi alma,
Sigue aquel dolor por creer en ti,
¿qué fue de la ilusión y de lo bello que es vivir?
Para qué me curaste cuando estaba herido,
Si hoy me dejas de nuevo con el corazón partío?
¿quién me va a entregar sus emociones?
¿quién me va a pedir que nunca le abandone?
¿quién me tapará esta noche si hace frío?
¿quién me va a curar el corazón partío?
¿quién llenará de primaveras este enero,
Y bajará la luna para que juguemos?
Dime, si tú te vas, dime cariño mío,
¿quién me va a curar el corazón partío?
Tiritas pa este corazón partío. (pa este corazón partio)
Tiritas pa este corazón partío. (pa este corazón)
Dar solamente aquello que te sobra,
Nunca fue compartir, sino dar limosna, amor
Si no lo sabes tú, te lo digo yo
Después de la tormenta siempre llega la calma,
Pero, sé que después de ti,
Después de ti no hay nada
Para qué me curaste cuando estaba herido,
Si hoy me dejas de nuevo con el corazón partío?
¿quién me va a entregar sus emociones?
¿quién me va a pedir que nunca le abandone?
¿quién me tapará esta noche si hace frío?
¿quién me va a curar el corazón partío?
¿quién llenará de primaveras este enero,
Y bajará la luna para que juguemos?
Dime, si tú te vas, dime cariño mío,
¿quién me va a curar el corazón partío?
¿quién me va a entregar...