[twilight]

my sanctuary from the hell of the past few weeks.. the twilight series. i know the books and the movie are overrated but i dont care. i like the books at least.

[marc anthony]

Source: http://www.marcanthonyonline.com/

Not only has Marc Anthony sold more records than any other salsa artist, but he has earned multi-platinum status with his self-titled English language album, starred on Broadway in Paul Simon's "The Capeman" and on the silver screen in Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead," and sold out Madison Square Garden five times.

He has been hailed as the "reigning king of salsa" by The New York Times, which praised his "flawless singing" while calling him "somebody who could compete with the great pop figures of the (20th)century." Yet at 32, with most of his career ahead of him, Marc Anthony is already a phenomenon of the 21st.

Having transcended the so-called "Latin wave" of the late 1990s, Marc Anthony is very much his own man. A man, moreover, still shaking his head over how far he's come.

In fact, expectations for the singer born Marco Antonio Muniz ran high from the start. Named by his musician-father after a famous Mexican singer of the same name, he changed his name professionally to avoid being confused with the legendary singer. The Muniz family kitchen table in Spanish Harlem was his first "stage," his "repertoire" a single song about a bird native to Puerto Rico. Even as a small child he knew how to wow an audience, in this case his extended family and their musician friends.

"He had just the one song," his father recalls, "but, boy, he could belt it out."

Marc grew up listening to rock and rhythm and blues, and began singing, in English, in dance clubs in New York, where the audience might number 500 on a good night. He specialized in a terse, minimalist form of dance music called "house music," in which a singer repeats a musical phrase over and over, with slight variations, to the accompaniment of a rhythm track.

He also sang background on records with a band called the Latin Rascals, who worked with producer Little Louie Vega. When Vega received a contract with Atlantic Records in 1991, he asked Anthony to be his singer. While none of the records they did together was especially successful, one of them, "Rebel," was a hit in clubs.

Marc's club days were rapidly nearing an end, however. In 1992, the legendary Latin percussionist and bandleader Tito Puente asked Vega and Anthony to open his revue at Madison Square Garden. They were a hit, and Marc found singing before such an enormous crowd intoxicating. Yet the real turning point in his career still lay ahead, the result of a song heard on the radio by chance.

His manager had suggested he sing in Spanish, but Anthony wasn't interested. Then one day, while driving in a car in Manhattan, Marc heard a song on the radio by a singer named Juan Gabriel. "It was called "Hasta Que Te Conoci"" Marc recalls, "which means 'Until I Met You,' and it ripped me apart. I don't know why and I don't want to know why. I called my manager and asked if I could record it in salsa."

In 1993 he did, and brought the musical tracks on DAT to Radio y Musica, a Latin music convention to which Marc's manager had sent him to perform. It would be a decision and a day that would change his life. Yet it began inauspiciously enough, with mainly disc jockeys in the audience and Marc performing in clothes borrowed for the occasion. One person clapped as he took the stage. "Make believe you're singing in your living room to your mom," he told himself as he began.

When he finished, he left the stage so quickly his manager had to grab him and point out that he was receiving a standing ovation. Several of the disc jockeys were dialing their cell phones. "Find this kid's CD," he heard one of them say. "I threw it out this morning, it's in the trash. Find it, and play it!"

Later that day, he appeared on a television show called "Carnaval Internacional," which was broadcast all over the world. "That changed my life forever," Anthony says. "I mean in one day. It seemed like years before I was ever in New York again. I was booked and booked and booked: Panama, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Miami, Los Angeles. I woke up once in the middle of the night in a hotel and I didn't know where I was. I called my brother's room and said, 'Where are we?' All I could see was a city at night. Tokyo. I thought, 'How did this happen?'"

Despite his growing fame in other countries, however, Anthony remained relatively unknown outside the Latin music world in the country of his birth, the result of having sung almost exclusively in Spanish. All of that changed with the September 1999 release of Marc Anthony, his self-titled English-language Pop CD. The album debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200 Album chart and was certified platinum six weeks later. Seven months after its release, it was still resting comfortably in the Top 40, having sold more than two million copies in the US alone. The album has since been certified triple platinum by the RIAA.

The initial success of Marc Anthony was driven, in part, by the irresistible groove of "I Need To Know," the album's first single. The certified gold track spent 11 weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and an additional eight weeks in the Top 40. The song earned Marc a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (1999).

Meanwhile, "Dimelo," the Spanish-language version of "I Need to Know," hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart and won a Latin Grammy for Song of the Year. The album's second single "You Sang To Me" hit #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart and received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance (2000). Marc Anthony also featured a track with very special significance for the singer. Called "My Baby You," the song was written for Anthony's six-year-old daughter, Arianna. "It's a daddy professing his love," he says.

One of Anthony's electrifying live performances was lensed for an exclusive HBO special, "Marc Anthony: The Concert from Madison Square Garden," which debuted on Valentine's Day 2000. The special was produced and directed for Cream Cheese Productions by Marty Callner, whose previous HBO credits include specials starring Madonna, Garth Brooks and Jerry Seinfeld. The special showcased Anthony's English-language hits, along with smashes from the Spanish-language salsa albums that have established him as the world's top-selling salsa singer.

Anthony has been awarded eight gold and platinum certifications: His albums Contra La Corriente, Todo A Su Tiempo, and Marc Anthony have all turned gold: Marc Anthony has achieved RIAA triple platinum status in the U.S.; and "I Need To Know" and "You Sang To Me" have been certified gold. Marc's album Contra La Corriente was awarded a Grammy for Best Latin/Tropical Performance (1998). His last salsa release, a greatest hits album, Desde El Principio: From the Beginning, held the #1 slot on the Billboard Latin 50 for seven weeks and was the #1 album for the year 2000 on that chart.

Yet, Anthony's success has not been limited to the music world. He was cast by music legend Paul Simon in the Broadway musical "The Capeman" and has graced the silver screen with significant roles in Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" and Stanley Tucci's "Big Night." He also appeared in "The Substitute," "Hackers," and the Showtime original film "In the Time of the Butterflies."

His role on Broadway as the star of "The Capeman" kept Anthony from promoting his third salsa album, Contra La Corriente, when it was initially released (it was certified gold anyway, right out of the box). As a temporary farewell of sorts, Marc gave a concert at Madison Square Garden. No salsa performer had ever been booked into the Garden, except as part of a revue. Marc Anthony sold out every seat in the house, a feat he would repeat every year thereafter.

And Anthony continued to delight sold-out crowds on tour with a highly successful concert series across North America in the winter and summer of 2000.

In places where Spanish is spoken, and especially in Puerto Rico, Anthony is held in a regard approaching reverence. A concert review in Puerto Rico's #1 newspaper El Nuevo Dia proclaimed him "a prophet in his native land."

One of his fans in Spanish Harlem--quoted in a profile of Anthony which ran in The New Yorker--summed up Marc Anthony with the memorable image: "He is like a flame that walks." Libre captures the sizzling sound of that flame.

[no me ames]

i've been obsessed with marc anthony's songs lately and i've been downloading them as predictably i would. haha. anyways my dear friend sarah said that the only song she's heard from him is NO ME AMES. and commented that its a nice song. so i decided to have a listen. and omg i was hooked! bait, line and sinker! this song is amazing! AND THE VIDEO! my goodness. it almost brought me to tears. marc was exceedingly brilliant in this. he looked... sophisticated and handsome to a point. wow.. here's the lyrics and the english translation.. thanks to sing365.com

No Me Ames(Duet with Marc Anthony) Lyrics

Dime por qué lloras
De felicidad
Y por qué te ahogas
Por la soledad
Di por qué me tomas, fuerte así,
mis manos, y tus pensamientos te van llevando

Yo te quiero tanto
Y por qué será
Loco testarudo, no lo dudes más,
aunque en el futuro haya un muro enorme,
yo no tengo miedo, quiero enamorarme.

No me ames, porque pienses que
parezco diferente
Tú no piensas que es lo justo,
ver pasar el tiempo juntos
No me ames, que comprendo,
la mentira que sería.
Si tu amor no merezco, no me ames,
mas quédate otro día

No me ames, porque estoy perdido,
porque cambié el mundo, porque es el
destino, porque no se puede, somos un espejo,
Y tú así serías lo que yo
de mí reflejo
No me ames, para estar muriendo,
dentro de una guerra llena de
arrepentimientos, no me ames para estar
en tierra, quiero alzar el
vuelo, con
tu gran amor por el azul del cielo

(SHORT BREAK)

No sé qué decirte, esa es la verdad,
si la gente quiere, sabe lastimar
Tú y yo partiremos, ellos no se mueven,
pero en este cielo sola no me dejes

No me dejes, no me dejes, no me escuches,
si te digo "no me ames".
No me dejes, no desarmes,
mi corazón con ese "no me ames"
No me ames, te lo ruego, mi amargura, dèjame
Sabes bien, que no puedo, que es inútil,
que siempre te amaré

No me ames, pues te haré sufrir con este
corazòn que se llenó de mil inviernos
No me ames, para así olvidarte de tus días grises, quiero que me ames
sólo por amarme
No me ames, tú y yo volaremos,
uno con el otro y seguiremos siempre juntos
Este amor es como el sol que sale tras de la tormenta
Como dos cometas en la misma estella

"Dont love me" >> "You don't love me"

Tell me why you're crying...
Of happiness.
And why are you drowning?
for loneliness
Tell me why you take my hands so strongly, and let your
thoughts carry you away

I love you so much
And why is that?
Crazy stubborn person, stop doubting it any longer
Even though in the future there will be a huge wall
I'm not afraid, I want to fall in love

Dont love me, because you think that
I may appear different
You dont think its right
For us to see time go by together?
Dont love me, I understand
the lie that it would be
If your love, I don;t deserve, dont love me,
just stay another day

Dont love me, because I am lost,
Because I changed the world,Because its destiny
Because it can't be, We both are like a mirror,
And you would be my own reflection
Don't love me, you would be dying
Within a war full of regrets,dont love me to be on this
Earth, I would like to throw your enormous love for the blue of the sky
.

(SHORT BREAK)

I dont know what to say to you, that's the truth
When people want to, they know how to hurt
You and I will depart, they would not move,
But in this sky dont leave me alone

Dont leave me, dont leave me, dont listen to me
If I say to you "dont love me"
Dont let me. Do not disable
my heart with that "Dont love me"
Dont love me, I'm begging you, leave me with my bitterness
You know well, that I can't, that its useless,
That I will always love you

Dont love me,because I would make you suffer with this heart of mine
that was filled with a thousand winters.
Dont love me,so that way you can forget of your gray days.
I want you to love me, just to love me
Dont love me, you and I will fly,
With with the other, and we will always be together
This love is like the sun that comes out after the storm
Like 2 comets on the same path

please watch the video on youtube if u have time. ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS!