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.
Qué Tristeza
Luis Miguel Lyrics
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Vivimos tanto tiempo
En el mismo techo
Hablamos diariamente el mismo idioma
Sin darnos cuenta que jamás nos entendimos
Qué tristeza
Que todo nuestro amor
Pues no dejamos
Nada construido
Por lo contrario terminamos ofendidos
Que tristeza
Si un día nuestras bocas se buscaron
Y nuestros cuerpos se necesitaron
Mas todo era resultado de un deseo
Qué tristeza
Agotamos todas las conversaciones
Sin lograr salvar algunas ilusiones
Qué tristeza
Qué tristeza
Que lo nuestro terminó
Qué tristeza
Agotamos todas las conversaciones
Sin lograr salvar algunas ilusiones
Qué tristeza
Qué tristeza
Que lo nuestro terminó
Qué tristeza
Agotamos todas las conversaciones
Sin lograr salvar algunas ilusiones
Qué tristeza
Qué tristeza
Que lo nuestro terminó
The lyrics of Luis Miguel's song "Qué Tristeza" speaks about the sadness that comes with realizing that a relationship has ended without achieving anything substantial. The song talks about two people who have lived together for a long time, speaking the same language but not understanding each other. They have shared the same roof, but their love has gone to waste because they never built anything significant, and all they ended up with is hurt feelings. The song speaks of two people who have exhausted all their conversations and were unable to save any semblance of their once-cherished relationship. The chorus repeats with the phrase, "Qué Tristeza" meaning "How sad" in English, to highlight the grief in the realization of what they have lost.
Line by Line Meaning
Qué tristeza
How sad
Vivimos tanto tiempo
We lived for so long
En el mismo techo
Under the same roof
Hablamos diariamente
We talked every day
El mismo idioma
In the same language
Sin darnos cuenta
Without realizing
Que jamás nos entendimos
That we never understood each other
Que todo nuestro amor
That all our love
Se haya perdido
Has been lost
Pues no dejamos
Because we didn't leave
Nada construido
Anything built
Por lo contrario
On the contrary
Terminamos ofendidos
We ended up offended
Si un día
If one day
Nuestras bocas se buscaron
Our mouths looked for each other
Y nuestros cuerpos se necesitaron
And our bodies needed each other
Mas todo era
But it was all
Resultado de un deseo
The result of a desire
Agotamos todas las conversaciones
We exhausted all conversations
Sin lograr salvar algunas ilusiones
Without being able to save some illusions
Que lo nuestro terminó
That ours is over
Qué tristeza
How sad
Qué tristeza
How sad
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Armando Manzanero Canche
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