1998News

Hispanic music hit CD launched tomorrow

Some 122 foreign press have come for the launching of the new CD, "No es lo mismo ni es igual" by Juan Luis Guerra and Karen Records at the Hotel Santo Domingo tomorrow, 16 December. Journalists from Spain, France, US, Puerto Rico, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and Puerto Rico are in Santo Domingo to be present at the launching of the CD. The stage for the presentation is said to be an enormous computer with equipment to access the Internet. One of the tracks, "Mi PC", is a play of words related to computers. Expectations are that sales of the new CD will surpass those of "Bachata Rosa" which from November 1990 to September 1992 sold five million copies around the world. Juan Lu?s Guerra’s first recording was "Soplando" (1984), followed by "Mudanza y Acarreo" (1985), "Mientras m?s lo pienso… t?" (1986), "Ojal? que llueva caf?" (1990), "Bachata Rosa" (1990). "Areito" (1992). "Fogarat?" (1994).