Biografia Ricardo Arjona

Edgar Ricardo Arjona Morales, (born 19 January 1964, in Jocotenango near Antigua, Guatemala, known as Ricardo Arjona, is aGuatemalan singer-songwriter and former basketball player and school teacher.In 1993, he received the Rafael Álvarez Ovalle Order from the then President of Guatemala, Ramiro de León Carpio, for his international merits. Arjona began his music career in 1985 at age 21, whenhe released Déjame Decir Que Te Amo. He raised to prominence in 1989 with his sophomore album Jesús, Verbo No Sustantivo, which garnered him media attention and moderate success.
After joining SonyMusic in 1990 he released, in 1993, his fourth album Animal Nocturno, which gained him significant popularity throughout the United States andLatin America, and paved the way for subsequentalbums Historias, Si El Norte Fuera El Sur and Sin Daños a Terceros. In 1999 he released his first live albumVivo, which garnered him his first number-one hit on the Billboard Latin Songs chart, "Desnuda". In 2005he released his tenth album, Adentro, which won both a Latin Grammy Award and a Grammy Award. In 2008, he abandoned Sony Music and signed a record deal with Warner Music, through which, the sameyear, he released his eleventh studio album, 5to Piso. In 2011, after 26 years within the music sphere, Arjona independently founded his own record label, Metamorfosis, through which he released histhirteenth studio album, Independiente, in 4 October 2011.
Ricardo Arjona is considered to be one of the most successful Latin American artists of all time, with more than 20 million albums sold todate. He is often called El Animal Nocturno (The Nocturnal Animal), thanks to his breakthrough success with his fourth studio album which bears the same name. His music ranges from ballads to Latin pop,rock, pop rock, Cuban music, and more recently a cappella performances and a mixture of Tejano music and Norteño music, and otherAfro-American and Latin sounds. Arjona is noted for his lyrical style,...