Despite recording only in Spanish, he continued to be the best selling Latin artist in the 1990s, and was credited for popularizing the bolero genre into the mainstream market. He has sold around 60 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists.
Latin pop music, along with his personal life and showmanship on stage, has made Luis Miguel popular for nearly his entire career, which started in Mexico in 1982. Having won his first Grammy Award at the age of fourteen for his duet "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres" with Sheena Easton, he is the youngest male artist in music history to have received this accolade. In 1991, the RIAA recognized the high sales for his 1991 album Romance, itself being the third best-selling music album in Mexico, and one of the best-selling Spanish language albums of all time. He was the first Latin artist to have been awarded two Platinum certified Spanish-language albums in the United States with ‘‘Romance’’ and ‘‘Segundo Romance’’ the latter earning him 35 platinum records throughout Central and South America. He is also recognized by Billboard, as the artist with the most top 10 hits on the Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart. His album Complices was released in 2008 and peaked at No.10 on the Billboard 200; it is the highest position a fully Spanish composed album has reached. His most recent album ¡México Por Siempre! was released in 2017, and it earned him his second No. 1 on the Billboard Regional Mexican Albums and achieved double platinum status.
Luis Miguel is also known for his high-grossing live performances. He is the first-highest grossing Latin touring artist since Boxscore began tracking touring data in 1990, with a towering total of $278.5 million. With the Luis Miguel Tour, which took place in 2010, he visited 22 countries in North America, South America and Europe, where he performed in a three-year span with a total of 223 shows all over the world, making it the longest and highest-grossing tour ever made by a Latin artist. He also holds the record for the most consecutive presentations in the Auditorio Nacional (National Auditorium) with a total of 30 consecutive concerts as well as the record for the most presentations in the same venue with a total of 258 concerts.
Muñeca Rota
Luis Miguel Lyrics
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En el espejo
Mírate
Estás más vieja
Mírate
No sé quién eres tú
Mírame
Yo fui tu amigo
Lo que te digo
Créeme
No sé quién eres tú
¿Dónde quedó
Aquella amiga fiel
Que me enseñó
A ser feliz?
Mírate
Pregúntate quién eres tú
Por qué has quemado sin piedad
Tu juventud, mi juventud
Mírate
Muñeca rota
Mírate
La droga mata
Créeme
Es más fuerte que tú
Mírate
Que aun te quiero
Mírate
Que aun te espero
Déjalo
Vuelve a ser solo tú
Dónde quedo
Aquella amiga fiel
The lyrics of the song "Muñeca Rota" by Luis Miguel express the pain of seeing a friend who has lost herself due to addiction. The opening lines of the song tell the listener to look in the mirror and confront the reality of their aging, but more importantly, to confront the reality that addiction has changed them into someone unrecognizable. The singer, who was once a friend, urges the afflicted person to listen to what he has to say, that the individual he sees before him is not who he once knew.
The song then continues to ask where the friend who taught him how to be happy has gone. The next verse emphasizes the self-destruction caused by addiction and how it burns through youth without mercy. The chorus repeats the need for the person to look at herself and see the damage caused by the drugs. The song ends with a plea from the singer to stop the destruction, return to who she really is, and be happy once again.
Line by Line Meaning
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
En el espejo
See your reflection
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
Estás más vieja
You're getting older
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
No sé quién eres tú
I don't recognize the person in the mirror anymore
Mírame
Look at me
Yo fui tu amigo
I was your friend
Óyeme
Listen to me
Lo que te digo
What I'm telling you
Créeme
Believe me
No sé quién eres tú
I don't recognize the person you've become
¿Dónde quedó
Where did
Aquella amiga fiel
That loyal friend go?
Que me enseñó
Who taught me
A ser feliz?
To be happy?
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
Pregúntate quién eres tú
Ask yourself who you are
Por qué has quemado sin piedad
Why did you mercilessly burn
Tu juventud, mi juventud
Your youth, my youth?
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
Muñeca rota
Broken doll
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
La droga mata
Drugs kill
Créeme
Believe me
Es más fuerte que tú
It's stronger than you
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
Que aun te quiero
That I still love you
Mírate
Look at yourself, take a good look at yourself in the mirror
Que aun te espero
That I still wait for you
Déjalo
Leave it
Vuelve a ser solo tú
Become yourself again
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: HONORIO HERRERO ARAUJO, LIS GOMEZ ESCOLAR, LUIS GOMEZ ESCOLAR ROLDAN
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