Multi Platinum, Gold & Diamond award winning & two-time Latin GRAMMY© recipient, Ricardo Arjona is one Latin American’s most prolific and highly revered singer songwriters of this decade, who returns to the spotlight with Latin music’s most highly anticipated release.
There are 14 albums that trace his successful career story. Each of Arjona’s albums posses its own life, it’s a different place in an episode of each of its characters and it’s also a place from where he shares with us new confessions, affections and reflections.Produced by Ricardo Arjona, recorded in various studios in Mexico, Miami and New York, “5to Piso” features 14 songs penned by him that reveal some of his personal experiences.
This album marks his debut with a new record label Warner Music whom with the Guatemalan singer- songwriter initiates a new path to international stardom.
Guatemalan born, the life of Ricardo Arjona has been filled with an array of flavors, colors and smells; at age six, with a guitar on hand, was already playing at family gatherings. Nevertheless, his talent was put on hold to teach at rural schools and even participate on Guatemala’s national basketball team. Nonetheless, no one was able to stray him away from his passion for music. Convinced that music would be his vocation for life, he decided to move to Mexico City in search of an opportunity in the country’s flourishing industry. After several student contests aided him in finally landing a great opportunity at Polygram.
“Certainly in spite of the malaise with which I saw the birth of this vocation-music, it transformed itself into the perfect means to approach others and to oust this timidity that I inherited from who knows where and which never served for anything else but to lock myself up in my room to write all the things that I wanted to say and didn’t dare to say out loud” Arjona comments on his path through music.
Today he continues giving us those lyrics that engulf his stories, taking his music to hundreds of countries and thousands of people. Arjona has spoken about love, the North and South, women and even approaching subjects of current social relevance.
Arjona has stepped with simplicity and musical quality in some of the most important venues in Latin-America and United States; in addition he is a deserving recipient of some of the most important recognitions in Latin music history.
