RBD (band)
| RBD | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Mexico City , Mexico |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| founding | 2004 |
| resolution | 2009 |
| Last occupation | |
| Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez | |
singing |
José Christian Chavez Garza |
Vocals, drums
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Christopher Alexander Luis Casillas von Uckermann |
Singing, tambourine
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Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla |
Vocals, guitar
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Dulce María Espinoza Saviñón |
singing |
Maite Perroni Beoriegui |
RBD was a pop music group from Mexico City , Mexico , best known for the telenovela Rebelde . RBD sold over 57 million albums worldwide in the four years of their career.
Since it was founded in 2004, she has become one of the most commercially successful acts in Latin American music and has also released her albums in Portuguese (for the Brazilian market) and English.
In addition to a nomination for a Latin Grammy Award in 2006, RBD also won three Billboard Latin Music Awards in the same year.
It turned out to be helpful for the career as a band that all members were already known to the (younger) target audience from the successful telenovela Rebelde , in which they played the members of a pop group. However, at that time the band members could already look back on careers as television actors, singers and child stars.
TV career
Rebelde
Rebelde is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in which the characters are portrayed by members of RBD. It is a remake of the Argentine telenovela Rebelde Way , which was shown in Germany on Nick . The series has a total of three seasons.
The series takes place in the Elite Way School, a recognized school in Mexico City . This is where the six young people Mia, Miguel, Roberta, Diego, Giovanni and Lupita meet for the first time. The plot of the series is that the students form a band called RBD and later successfully tour Mexico. All actors who embody this band are successful in real life with the band of the same name.
RBD: La Familia
The sitcom has been broadcast on Mexican television since 2007. In it the band members embody themselves, the actions are fictitious.
biography
Members
- Anahí ( Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla , born May 14, 1983)
- Dulce María ( Dulce María Espinoza Saviñón , born December 6, 1985)
- Maite ( Maite Perroni Beoriegui , born March 9, 1983)
- Alfonso ( Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez , born August 28, 1983)
- Christopher (Christopher Alexander Luis Casillas von Uckermann, born October 21, 1986)
- Christian (José Christian Chávez Garza, born August 7, 1983), married to his boyfriend since 2005 (wedding in Canada )
2004-2005: Rebelde
RBD made their debut with the album Rebelde , which was released under the record label EMI . The songwriters for this album were u. a. Carlos Lara (aka DJ Kafka) and Max di Carlo, whose songs were just as popular as the series. The first three singles ( Rebelde , Solo Quédate en Silencio and Sálvame ) were number one hits in Mexico, the fourth single Un Poco de Tu Amor reached number two on the Mexican charts. In November 2005, a Portuguese-language album was released on the Brazilian market, which was called Rebelde (Edição Brasil) . Although they did not record an English-language album, Rebelde sold so well in the United States that it even landed at # 95 on the US Top 100 Albums Chart and ranked second on the Top Latin Albums. Rebelde has sold over 400,000 in the US and got diamond in Mexico and gold in Brazil, where it sold a total of 1.4 million times. In July 2005 a live CD / DVD was released, called Tour Generación RBD En Vivo , on which the sold out tour through Mexico can be seen (35 sold out concerts, six of them in Mexico City).
2005-2006: Nuestro amor
In October 2005 her second studio album Nuestro Amor , produced by Carlos Lara, was released , which hit new sales records in Mexico. Namely, it sold 127 thousand times the first day and 160 thousand times the first week. In the USA the album spent three weeks in the Latin album charts and again reached the top 100 of the American singles charts at number 88. The first four single releases landed at number one in Mexico. In the United States, only Nuestro Amor (# 6), Aún Hay Algo (# 24) and Este Corazón (# 10) made the Hot Latin Charts.
In early 2006, RBD toured the United States for the first time, recording their second CD / DVD, Live In Hollywood (Producer: Carlos Lara) , to be released in April . This CD / DVD reached number six on the Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart. A short time later, in May 2006, the Portuguese version of Nuestro Amor , called Nosso Amor Rebelde (Edição Brasil) , was released especially for Brazilian fans. At the end of the third season of Rebelde , the pop band announced that they would be making a new telenovela and recording an English-language album that would feature new songs and old songs from the first two albums. In 2006 RBD were also nominated for the Latin Grammy Award in the category Best Pop Album by a Group or Duo with Nuestro Amor . Although they lost the award to La Oreja de Van Gogh , a Mexican casting band, they performed a new version of Tras de Mí .
2006 was also the year in which RBD became known in Spain.
2006–2007: Celestial , Celestial (versão Brasil) & Rebels
A few months after the release of Live in Hollywood , the third studio album Celestial was released in November 2006 , also produced by Carlos Lara. It debuted at number 15 on the US Billboard 200 as it sold over 137,000 times in the US in one week.
A month later, their first English-language album, Rebels , was released, which entered the US Billboard 200 album charts at number 40 and sold 94,000 copies in the first week. On the day of the release, the band logo on the album cover changed from white to pink.
The DVD Live in Rio was released on her tour of Brazil . There they were also honored for their over 2.5 million CDs and DVDs sold. Meanwhile, the album Rebelde was at the top of the Spanish charts for five weeks and went double platinum for 160,000 copies sold. Nuestro Amor sold just as well to get double platinum, while Celestial , released in Spain on March 12, 2007, went gold in the charts in just three weeks. On March 2, 2007, shortly after pictures of his wedding surfaced on the internet, Christian Chavez confessed that he was gay . In a letter on RBD's website, he asked his fans for understanding and acceptance. The pop group then worked on two projects: on the one hand, Sálvame , an organization that aims to help homeless youth to gain protection and education; and on the other hand La Familia , their new sitcom . At the end of March, Dulce María commented in an interview that the Sálvame project would start on May 1st and that RBD was also thinking about helping children in Brazil and Spain.
RBD was nominated four times in three different categories for the 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards , including two nominations for Latin Pop Album of the Year By a Duo or Group , with Celestial and Live in Hollywood . They were also nominated for their Tour Generación 2006 in the categories Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year and Latin Tour of the Year . The event took place in Miami on April 26th . They won prizes in all categories. On April 20th, their world tour, Tour Celestial 2007 , began in Ecuador . On May 28, 2007 Donald Trump invited the group to the Miss Universe 2007 final in Mexico City, where they performed with the three songs Wanna Play , Cariño Mio and Money Money . In July 2007 they toured Romania and released Celestial there . They also shot the video for Bésame Sin Miedo in Transylvania . In the same year they became an advertising medium for Pepsi- Cola in Spanish-speaking countries alongside the Black Eyed Peas . On July 19, 2007, RBD sang their single Bésame Sin Miedo in the Premios Juventud 2007 and won seven awards that evening, including a. Voice of the Moment and Favorite Concert . Since then they have won 24 Premios Juvendtud Awards. On July 20, 2007, RBD demonstrated their new tour bus in El Gordo y la Flaca for their Celestial World Tour . On July 25, 2007, RBD performed at an acoustic concert in Mexico City as guests for a new Latino show called Confesiones en Concierto . The group had become a phenomenon when they were nominated for Tu Amor for best international song in France , which became their biggest success so far. They sang the single Bésame Sin Miedo in Buscando a Timbiriche and Mexico with Timbriche, a popular group from the eighties and nineties. There was also a re-release by Rebels , in which three hip-hop songs are integrated.
2007-2008: Empezar Desde Cero
On October 4th, 2007 the first RBD Day took place in Houston / Texas , where RBD celebrated with their fans and announced at a press conference that their fourth studio album Empezar Desde Cero , which was also produced by Carlos Lara and Armando Avila, would be released on October 20th November and a few days later their first single Inalcanzable will be released. At the end of 2007, RBD won an award in the Best International Song of the Year category for Tu Amor in France. In December 2007 the first season of RBD: La Familia was released on DVD in Mexico and Spain. In January 2008, RBD fans had the opportunity to vote on their website which song by Empezar Desde Cero should be the second single. The theme song won and was on radios for the first time on January 29th. On April 11, the group El Premio Tu Mundo won an award at the Latin Billboards Awards 2008 , which fans could vote on for themselves. On April 21st, the band performed in front of the biggest audience they ever had to celebrate the 48th birthday of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. The audience consisted of over 500,000 fans. On April 23, it was announced that RBD would be the first artists to have six different albums in the top 10 charts in Slovenia over the same weekend. On May 12th, her new music video Estar Bien premiered . The song is part of a campaign against obesity , anorexia and bulimia and aims to encourage people to be happy, feel good and always be active. On June 5th, RBD announced that Empezar Desde Cero's third single would be Y No Puedo Olvidarte . They also announced that a special edition CD of their fourth studio album, Empezar Desde Cero Fan Edition , will be released, which will contain three bonus tracks ( Tal Vez Mañana , Te Daria Todo and Estar Bien ) and one Karaoke, single and video DVD. On August 4th, five of their studio albums were released in Portugal. On August 14th, fans could listen to a possible song from their last album called Sinceridad on the Internet. That happened just one day before RBD announced they would split up in the coming year.
Discography
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Spanish studio albums
- 2004: Rebelde
- 2005: Nuestro Amor
- 2006: Celestial
- 2007: Empezar Desde Cero
- 2009: Para Olvidarte de Wed
Portuguese studio albums
- 2005: Rebelde (Edição Brasil)
- 2006: Nosso Amor Rebelde
- 2006: Celestial (Versão Brasil)
English studio albums
- 2006: Rebels
Live albums / video albums
- 2005: Tour Generación RBD En Vivo , CD-DVD
- 2006: Live In Hollywood , CD-DVD
- 2007: Live In Rio
- 2007: Hecho En España , CD-DVD
- 2009: Live In Brasília
- 2009: Tournée Do Adeus
Rebelde video albums
- 2006: Rebelde: Primera Temporada
- 2007: Rebelde: Segunda Temporada
- 2007: Rebelde: Tercera Temporada
Compilations
- 2006: ¿Que Hay Detrás de RBD?
- 2008: Best Of RBD
- 2009: Así Es RBD
- On the album Los Benjamin by Luny Tunes & Tainy (2006) RBD is represented with the song Lento .
Soundtrack
- 2007: RBD: La Familia
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
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 gold |
 platinum |
 diamond
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 Brazil (PMB)
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gold1
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- | - | 50,000 | pro-musicabr.org.br |
 Mexico (AMPROFON)
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8 × gold8th
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14 × platinum14th
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diamond1
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1,590,000 | amprofon.com.mx |
 Spain (Promusicae)
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2 × gold2
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4 × platinum4th
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- | 400,000 | elportaldemusica.es |
 United States (RIAA)
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10 × platinum10
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- | 640,000 | riaa.com |
| All in all |
11 × gold11
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28 × platinum28
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diamond1
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Movie
According to its producer Pedro Damián, who also produced Rebelde , the shooting of a film will begin at the end of 2008, which will show the band and its members from a different side under the title Más Rebelde .
Rivalry with Erreway
There were many rumors that RBD were at odds with the original band Erreway , but both bands denied this when they met in Spain in the summer of 2006 and shot photos together for the press. Camila Bordonaba assured the press that there was only rivalry between the fans of the respective bands, and that the groups themselves were not at war with each other.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Queer.de - Mexico: Pop star Chavez comes out (March 6, 2007)
- ↑ RBD in the Mexican album charts. Mexicancharts.com, archived from the original on February 25, 2012 ; Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
- ↑ RBD in the US charts
- ↑ RBD in the Spanish charts. Spanishcharts.com, accessed October 18, 2014 .
- ↑ grupo-rbd.com - RBD on the big screen - With a story specially made for their fans ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- RBD - US Billboard ( Memento from August 17, 2007 on the Internet Archive )