RBD
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Members | Anahí Dulce María Maite Alfonso Christopher Christian |
RBD is a Mexican pop-rock music group that grew popular from a prime-time telenovela on Televisa called Rebelde . The show has become really amazingly popular among Latin American teenagers and adults also, spurring the creation of the band, which has had widespread success even in non-Spanish-speaking countries.
The success of RBD band is remarkable in any respect. The marketing surrounding the band and the show is aggressive, and as a result, they are known throughout the Latin American culture. Their success is exemplified in the recent release of a Portuguese CD along with concerts and appearances in Brazil, and the announcement of an English CD and American tour. They have already held concerts in Southern California and Texas which were so popular that police had to be called in for crowd control (see below). For many recording artists, even British or Australian, the United States is considered the final frontier. As a result, many are saying that the fact that RBD's initial forays into the American music scene have been so successful can only be a sign of promising future for the band.
RBD now provides all of the music for the show. They recorded the opening song, "Rebelde", used for the first two seasons, and the opening song for the third season of the show is their biggest single off their new CD, "Nuestro Amor".
The Members
RBD includes six of the most popular actors from Rebelde, but they play on the interactions of their characters on the show as well. (The band includes two of the most popular couples from the show.) To distinguish themselves from their characters, the band members dress in a fun, fashionable, and slightly revealing style, and the 3 male members often paint on face or body tattoos. The manner of dress and the tattoos only add the the vibe of rebelliousness - to keep with the 'rebelde' theme.
The actors are all multi-talented. Each sing, but several also play instruments. The only that do not play principle instruments are Anahi and Christian, who chiefly sing. In their largest concerts the band members do not play instruments but rather use a backup band. They have dance choreography and are extremely effective in working a crowd to get excited. Christopher - drums, voice / Maite - keyboard, voice / Alfonso - guitar, voice / Dulce Maria - guitar, voice / Anahi - voice, tamborine / Christian - voice
The band members obviously work very hard, and as a result Dulce Maria and Anahi have both recently been hospitalized. Anahi, who was a child star actor and singer before joining the show, had surgery on her throat, and Dulce Maria, another child star, came down with pneumonia.
Music
On September 22 of 2005 they launched their second album, titled Nuestro Amor, which debuted at #1 in Mexico and at #3 In US: Latin, Which in just seven hours it gained a platinum certification for more than 126,000 copies of it sold in Mexico. Also on 'Premios Juventud', in Miami, they obtained five of the 11 nominations.
Stepping up to Billboard to number #2 on the Latin Chart with their single Sólo Quédate en Silencio. RBD recently were surprised with a diamond album for their extremely huge sales of their first Album "Rebelde", which has sold 500,000 copies in Mexico alone.
RBD has just released their Portuguese version of Rebelde in Brazil, which contains 7 of the 11 songs in Portuguese and the Spanish album as well. The album is already a real success, being sold 250,000 copies; most of Brazilian sale websites ran out of the album in its first week of its release. They have also released Fique Em Silêncio, Portuguese version of Sólo Quédate En Silencio.
Billboard certified "Rebelde" (album, #4) 2x-platino (meaning 400,000 copies) in the U.S., and "Nuestro Amor", #3, 1x-platino for 200,000 copies sold, on February, 9th 2006.
It was recently announced that RBD is working on an English-language album, slated to come out in February or March, which will coincide with their first U.S. tour.
Discography
Albums
The sum of their three records sold worldwide is an estimated 2,500,000 copies.
| Year | Album | MEX | USLAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Rebelde | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | Tour Generación RBD (live) | 1 | 22 |
| 2005 | Nuestro Amor | 1 | 1 |
Singles
| Year | Album | Album | MEX | USLAT | BRA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | "Rebelde" | Rebelde | 1 | 37 | – |
| 2004 | "Sólo quédate en silencio" | Rebelde | 1 | 2 | – |
| 2005 | "Salvame" | Rebelde | 1 | 62 | – |
| 2005 | "Un poco de tu amor" | Rebelde | 2 | – | – |
| 2005 | "Fique Em Silêncio" | Rebelde (Brazilian Edition) | – | – | 3 |
| 2005 | "Nuestro Amor" | Nuestro Amor | 1 | 6 | – |
| 2005 | "Aun hay algo" | Nuestro Amor | 1 | – | – |
| 2006 | "Tras de Mi" | Nuestro Amor | 1 | – | – |
| 2006 | "Este Corazón" | Nuestro Amor | – | – | – |
- Achievement: RBD is the only artist to ever have had 4 singles in the "Top Latino" Top 50 Year End Chart: [1]
- Rebelde: #13
- Sólo Quedate en Silencio: #20
- Sálvame: #21
- Nuestro Amor: #49
DVDs
Tour Generacion RBD en Vivo DVD (2005), RBD's first DVD release from the OCESA certified #1 tour of the year in Mexico. More than 700,000 Mexican fans watched it.The tour visited Mexico, starting on May 13th and finishing on August 28th. The DVD includes the whole live concert, a documentary, and never-before-seen footage of the group while on tour.
The DVD debuted at #1 in Mexico. It started its 2nd leg called Tour Generacion RBD 2 and visited Colombia, viewed by over 100,000 colombian fans on October 2005. Also, Rebelde, First Season on DVD (2004-2005), the first season of the successful novela was released at the end of 2005.
Tours
Tour Generación
Tour Generación RBD (2005), RBD's first national tour, became one of the most successful tours in Mexican music history, with 35 sold out dates in Mexico, (3 visits to Monterrey and a total full at all 6 concerts at Palacio de los Deportes [capacity 18,000] at Ciudad de México ) gathering more than 700,000 fans in Mexico, overall.
Also, a Tour Generación DVD and a Tour Generación CD were released to promote the tour. "OCESA" (a Mexican entertainment company) released a list of the fastest selling concert tickets in Mexico in 2005. Almost all of the artists in the list are American and European, RBD is the only Mexican group to make the top 5 list:
- The Cure - Sing To The Dead Tour (2004)
- Britney Spears - Dream Within a Dream Tour (2002)
- Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue Tour (2001)
- RBD - Tour Generación RBD (2005)
- Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People Tour (1998)
Nuestro Amor Tour
RBD will start an American tour in March 2006, a sure sign of their widespread success. The tour will go all over the United States, including Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Atlanta, Seattle, Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, and Puerto Rico.
Nuestro Amor Tour (2006) Mexican newspapers informed on November 13th, that the new tour, appearantly called Nuestro Amor Tour, will kick off next year, around May 2006. The tour will be made for RBD's new 2nd studio album Nuestro Amor. A DVD and a CD will be also released, serving as promotion for the tour. RBD will be promoting their third album on the month of January.
Febrero - February
- 23 - Premios lo Nuestro (Miami, Fl)
- 25 - Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (Concierto en la Arena Monterrey)
Marzo - March
- 11 - Panamá, Panamá
- 12 - Costa Rica, Costa Rica
- 17 - Salinas, California
- 18 - Los Angeles, California
- 19 - Sacramento, California
- 24 - Fresno, California
- 25 - San Diego, California
- 26 - San José, California
Abril - April
- 7 - MC Allen, Texas
- 8 - Dallas, Texas
- 9 - El Paso, Texas
- 15 - Salt Lake City, Utah
- 16 - Denver, Colorado
- 28 - San Antonio, Texas
- 29 - Laredo, Texas
- 30 - Houston, Texas
Dates to be confirmed:
Mayo - May
- Portland, OR
- Seattle, WA
- Yakima, WA
- Milwaukee, WI
- Chicago, IL
- Detroit, MI
- Raleigh, NC
- Orlando, FL
- Miami, FL
Junio - June
- New York, NY
- Boston, MA
- Washington, DC
- Atlanta, GA
- Anaheim, CA
- Tampa, FL
- Phoenix, AZ
- Tucson, AZ
- Santa Bárbara, CA
- Las Vegas, NV
Brazilian Tragedy
In February 4, 2006, during an autograph session on the parking lot of a shopping center in Sao Paulo, a 38 year-old woman and two children, ages 13 and 11, were killed, supposedly due to suffocation, while another 42 people, mostly teenagers, were injured. Authorities said some of the fans were trampled when a security fence keeping them from getting too close to the singers collapsed, and apparently fans rushed forward as the band began preparing for a brief impromptu performance after the autograph session. More that 15,000 people were present at the event, rather than the 5,000 that was expected. The members of the group RBD were dismayed and deeply saddened by the death of these 3 people and cancelled their presentations in Brazil, appearing only in a condolence message to the families of the victims in Brazil's popular show "Domingo Legal", although they have had cancelled the tour in Brazil.
This event raised a controversy about the group management's role in these sessions, as similar situations happened just months before. In January 13th, police in Dallas, TX called out a SWAT team to control over 10,000 fans, some of whom waited for six hours to see the group at a local Wal-Mart. The size of the crowd forced organizers to cancel the event, and just days after events at El Paso, TX and West Patterson, NJ went through similar circumstances with both events being cancelled. During their first visit to the U.S. in the city of Los Angeles, CA, the security personal from a local mall in which an autograph session was scheduled, adviced the group's management to cancel the event for safety reasons, as the second floor where a crowd bigger than expected was waiting for the band, could not hold the weight and was in danger of collapsing. The RBD crew are tremendously sorry and don't have any words that can describe their sadness. One of the members, Dulce Maria, said that if there was anything they could do to bring back the people that dies, they would do it. In order to that they canceled their tour in Brazil.