Piel De Angel

Infobox Album |
Name = Piel de Angel
Type = Album
Artist = Lucero


Background = Orange
Released = 1997
Recorded = 1996, 1997
Genre = Pop, Romantic Balad
Length =
Label = Melody
Producer = Claudio Guidetti, Maurizio Fabrizio
Sales =
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Last album = "Siempre Contigo"
(1995)
This album = "Piel de Angel"
(1997)
Next album = "Cerca de Tí"
(1998)

"Piel de Angel" is the thirteenth album from Mexican pop music singer and actress Lucero. It was released on 1997.

For this album, the singer choose to work with Italian producers Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio to achieve a new sound on her music, since she had already three back to back ballad albums written and produced by Spanish songwriter Rafael Pérez-Botija.

"Piel de Angel" was released just after Lucero's wedding with Manuel Mijares (one of the highest rated events in Mexico history), and was another successful recording for her, selling 500,000 copies only in her native country.

Gerardo Flores wrote seven out of eleven tracks included on the project, including an adaptation of the "Il Postino" score, written by Luis Bacalov, by Lucero's request, since her mother was a big fan of the movie.

As usual for a first single for the singer albums, "Tácticas de Guerra" (War Tactics) and hit the #1 spot in Mexico and also the #13 on the "Billboard" Hot Latin Tracks chart.

The track "Si Tú Llegaras a Amarme" (If You Would Love Me) is the result of a contest in México for the soap opera "Lazos de Amor" (stared by Lucero as well).

"Quiero" (I Want) was released as second single reaching #8 in Mexico. The third single "Toda la Noche" (All Night Long) had a first video directed by Adolfo Pérez Butrón, the photographer behind almost every cover of the artist albums.

On her second live album "Lucero En Vivo Auditorio Nacional" the track "Historias de Amores" (Love Stories) and the single "Tácticas de Guerra" appears on the setlist.

Track listing

# La Vida Aquí Está (D. Amerio/Cheope/Gerardo Flores) — 3:41
# Si Tu Llegaras a Amarme (Roxana de Antuñano/José Cantoral) — 3:07
# Historias de Amores (Claudio Guidetti/Gerardo Flores) — 4:13
# Toda la Noche (Gerardo Flores) — 3:31
# Al Centro de tus Ojos (Claudio Guidetti/A. Oliveri/G. Casela/Gerardo Flores) — 4:20
# Quiero (Maurizio Fabricio/Guido Morra/Gerardo Flores) — 3:45
# Inventario (S. Amato/F. Berlincioni/Gerardo Flores) — 4:05
# Tácticas de Guerra (Miguel Gallardo/Luis Cabañas) — 3:38
# Piel de Angel (Miguel Gallardo/Luis Cabañas) — 4:14
# Si Me Extrañas (Jorge Avendano Luhrs) — 3:33
# Una Vez Más (Luis Bacalov/Gerardo Flores) — 2:55

ingles

# Tácticas De Guerra (#1 MEX. #13 US Latin)
# Quiero (#8 MEX)
# Toda La Noche (#16 MEX. #1 Chile)

Personnel

* Production: Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio from Destino SRL
* Recorded at: Studio L’isola (Milan, Italy) by Bruno Malasoma; Soundabout Studio (LA) by Claudio Guidetti and Rodolfo Vazquez.
* Strings recording: Olympic Studios (London) by Pete Lewis and Adam Brown
* Mixing: Studio L’isola by Bruno Melasoma and Claudio Guidetti
* Mastering: Nautilus (Milan) by Antonio Baglio
* Executive producer: Tina Galindo
* Production coordinator: Sylvia Cantarell
* Photography: Adolfo Pérez Butrón
* Wardrobe: Beatriz Calles, Sarah Bustani and Keko
* Graphic design: Varela design.

Musicians

* Drums: Elio Rivagli
* Bass: Flavio Scopaz
* Guitars, piano and keyboards: Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio
* Electric guitar: Andrea Braido
* Sax: Emanuele Cisi
* Backing vocals: Emanuela Cortesi, Monica Magnani, Claudio Guidetti and Maurizio Fabrizio
* Violin: Lucio Fabbri, Russel Gilbert and Mario de Monte
* Strings arrangement: Maurizio Fabrizio