Montaner was born as Héctor Eduardo Reglero Montaner, in Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. However, he moved to Venezuela when he was 6 years old. During his youth he performed in the church chorus in the city of Maracaibo. In 1983, he released his first album titled Cada Día. Although the album was not a great success, it was a start for Montaner's career. He describes this album:"as his own version of death metal"
It wasn't until 1987 when Montaner became widely popular in Venezuela with the singles "Yo Que Te Amé" and "Vamos a Dejarlo" belonging to his self-titled album.
The following year he came out with Ricardo Montaner 2 which featured hit songs like "Tan Enamorados" and "A Donde Va El Amor". At the same time, he acted in the popular soap opera Niña Bonita. This also became a tool to make his songs known to the rest of Latin America. He won 4 platinum albums in Argentina alone. His next two albums, Un Toque de Misterio and En el Último Lugar del Mundo, became classics of the popular music in Mexico, Central and South America with hits such as "La Cima del Cielo", "Me Va a Extrañar", "Déjame Llorar" and "Será".
By 1992 Ricardo decided to hit the Spanish Caribbean with Los Hijos del Sol, an album that contained songs like "Castillo Azul", "Honda" and "Piel Adentro". That year, he also recorded a duet with Michelle, which was the Latinamerican version for the Aladdin song "A Whole New World" titled "Un Mundo Ideal".
Although Montaner has written most of his songs he has worked closely with other great song writers in Latin America such as Pablo Manavello, Ilan Chester and Oscar Gómez. But in 1994, Ricardo Montaner wrote and produced all the songs in his album Una Mañana y un Camino, which became popular only years after his release due to the lack of promotion by his new record label EMI Latin, with which Ricardo would also release Viene del Alma in 1995, an Italian pop flavored album. Also in 1995 he teamed up with Yolandita Monge to establish a Guinness World Record for performing 3 concerts in different cities on the same day in Puerto Rico. This was only possible by air transportation via helicopter from stage to stage.
By 1997, Montaner was already a well established artist in the Spanish speaking music world and could give himself the luxury of experimenting with other styles of music, without forgetting the roots that had made him so popular a decade earlier. Working one more time with Pablo Manavello and with a new record company, Warner Music proved to be the promoter Ricardo was expecting for. Es Así brought Ricardo much popularity in the United States Spanish speaking areas and allowed Montaner to tour more than 17 countries in Latin America making him even more popular in Spain. Songs like "La Mujer de Mi Vida", "Para Llorar" and "Es Así" became very popular all around.
In 1999, Montaner recorded his best album ever with his past hits decorated with the strings of the London Metropolitan Orchestra. This proved to be very successful and sold over 1 million copies. Ricardo made another attempt in 2001 with Sueño Repetido that included the bolero style song "Bésame" arranged by Bebu Silvetti which became a hit all over the world. Future works with Juan Carlos Calderón, Kike Santander and Silvetti would be the key for Ricardo to move his songs and popularity to another level in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
2002's Suma (Bolero style songs) and 2003's Prohibido Olvidar (balada pop) had fair results in terms of sales and acceptance. "Si Tuviera Que Elegir" in Suma was written for his daughter. In 2003 he broke the record for the most concerts on a same tour in the theater of Bellas Artes in Puerto Rico. He sold out 18 concerts breaking his past record of 12, which also held it Yolandita Monge and Ricardo Arjona.
In 2004, he made another album with the London Metropolitan Orchestra named Con La London Metropolitan Orchestra Vol. 2 featuring his latest hits songs and two exclusive songs such as "Desesperado" and "Esta Escrito". In 2005, Montaner launched Todo y Nada which featured the songs "Cuando a mi Lado Estas" and "Nada". For this album he's already nominated in the Latin Grammys with album and song of the year for "Cuando a mi Lado Estas". "Amarte es mi Pecado" and "Heridas de Amor" are non-album songs that have been chosen to be the theme songs on two very popular Mexican soap operas and that much popular have become these songs.
In 2007, Ricardo released Las Mejores Canciones Del Mundo produced by Adrian Posse with the songs "Hoy Tengo Ganas De Ti", "Nostalgias (Argen Version)", "Échame A Mí La Culpa (Artista Invitado: Juanes)".
In 2008, he released Las Mejores Canciones Del Mundo II - Y Algunas Mías...! with the songs "Cuando Un Amigo Se Va", "Ansiedad", "Bésame (Featuring Pasión Vega)".
Ricardo Montaner has sold over 22 million albums, and keeps breaking records in arenas and theaters all over the world.
Penumbras
Ricardo Montaner Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
La luna se aferró a tu piel
Y el mar se sintió celoso
Y quiso en tus ojos
Estar él también
Tu boca sensual, peligrosa
Tus manos la dulzura son
Que quema mis ansias
Y mi corazón
Ternura que sin prisa apura
Caricias que brinda el amor
Caprichos muy despacio dichos
Entre la penumbra
De un suave interior
Te quiero y ya nada me importa
La vida lo ha dictado así
Si quieres yo te doy el mundo
Pero no me pidas que no te ame así
Si quieres yo te doy el mundo
Pero no me pidas que no te ame así
Que no te ame así
Que no te ame así
The song Penumbras by Ricardo Montaner portrays a romantic relationship filled with passion, desire and emotions. The first verse of the song signifies the strong attraction felt towards the person, where the night and the moon are described as being lost in their hair and skin respectively. The sea too is jealous and wants to be a part of them. The second verse talks about the person's physical features that drive the singer crazy, their mouth and hands being mentioned as the cause of the sweetness felt by him. The person's breath is compared to slow-burning fire, that not just ignites his desires but also his heart. The third verse speaks of the tenderness and intimacy the two people share, where love is all about being slow and gentle while exploring each other in a soft interior.
The chorus of the song is about being completely in love with the person, where the singer says that nothing else matters except for the love they share. He is willing to give the world to the person, but he can never stop loving them the way he does.
Overall, the song portrays the feeling of being deeply in love, where the passion and fire within the hearts of two individuals drive them towards each other in a soft and intimate space.
Line by Line Meaning
La noche se perdió en tu pelo
Your gorgeous hair swallowed the night's darkness
La luna se aferró a tu piel
The moon got glued to your enchanting skin
Y el mar se sintió celoso
The sea felt jealous of your unmatched beauty
Y quiso en tus ojos
Wanted to reflect itself in your eyes
Estar él también
To be there with you, forever and ever
Tu boca sensual, peligrosa
Your beguiling, dangerous lips
Tus manos la dulzura son
Your hands embody sweetness
Tu aliento fatal fuego lento
Your fatal, slow-burning breath
Que quema mis ansias
Ignites my desires
Y mi corazón
My heart too
Ternura que sin prisa apura
Hurry up with your tenderness, slowly
Caricias que brinda el amor
Love's gentle caresses
Caprichos muy despacio dichos
Whispers of caprice, spoken slowly
Entre la penumbra
In the shadows
De un suave interior
Of our soft, innermost selves
Te quiero y ya nada me importa
I love you and nothing else matters
La vida lo ha dictado así
Life has decreed it so
Si quieres yo te doy el mundo
If you want, I'll give you the world
Pero no me pidas que no te ame así
But don't ask me not to love you like this
Que no te ame así
Not to love you like this
Lyrics © SADAIC LATIN COPYRIGHTS, INC., Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: OSCAR ANDERLE, ROBERTO SANCHEZ
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
leticia contreras
La noche se perdió en tu pelo
La luna se aferró a tu piel
Y el mar se sintió celoso
Y quiso en tus ojos, estar él también...
Tu boca, sensual, peligrosa
Tus manos la dulzura son
Tu aliento fatal fuego lento
Que quema mis ansias, y mi corazón
Ternura que sin prisa apura
Caricias que brinda el amor
Caprichos muy despacio dichos
Entre la penumbra, De un suave interior
Te quiero y ya nada me importa
La vida lo ha dictado así
Si quieres yo te doy el mundo
Pero no me pidas que no te ame así
Si quieres yo te doy el mundo
Pero no me pidas que no te ame así
Que no te ame así
Que no te ame así
Lua Espinosa
Me gusta Ricardo, pero me eriza la piel la interpretación de Cristian Castro
Nahuel Montori
el mejor comentario que leí
Victor Hugo Gaitan
Canta lindo!! Pero No hay que entrar en comparaciones! Sandro un Animal , un mostro! Insuperable sin dudas, el wan . Numero1 , pero digo ,no hay que comparar es muy agradable al oido, esta version tambie. Como la que marco! Cristia Castro! La verdad son para aplaudirlos! Son y fueron unos fenomenos musicales.. 👏👏
Joasir Coimbra
Hermosa canción... este es el mejor cover que escuché....👍Tenía que ser el maestro Montaner...!!!
Alex Castro
Cristian Castro le da mil vueltas a Montaner vocalmente
MASTER PLAY ▶
@Rafael Villarroel Soto anda mexicano acomplejado que venís acá con tu homosexual de Cristian Castro a ese no lo podes comparar con Ricardo montaner ni en tus sueños
Rafael Villarroel Soto
novato.. te faltó de Cristian Castro
Shoder
Mepa que la gente no sabe que el CD se llama, "Las mejores canciones del mundo", porque las canciones que él canta son las que para su ser son eso, haciendo tributo a esos artistas que crearon sus obras con su mismo consentimiento, en el propio CD está todo, pero bueno, la gente no se toma la molestia de investigar un poco antes de hablar (?
Gusalvi 1 Ore curo
Exacto es un tributo al gran maestro Sandro
Ariel Gimenez
Que bueno que mantengan vivo el recuerdo de Sandro el mejor el maestro