¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?
¿Dónde están los ladrones? (English translation: Where Are the Thieves?) is the second official studio album by Shakira, released in 1998. Dónde Están los Ladrones? sold 10 million worldwide. Though the album did not perform well on the Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at #131, the album is one of the highest selling Spanish-language albums in the United States. Two of the album's songs garnered Shakira the Latin Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. In addition, it was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best Latin Album. The album was re-issued in 2005, to promote the sales of Oral Fixation Vol. 2. The album also contains two bonus tracks in certain countries.
Album information
The album took nine months to produce since more people worked on the album, more opinions were given, and more demos were released, which made the production process longer and more complicated than Pies Descalzos. What prolonged the process even more was that Shakira wanted perfection in the album, since she knew that many critics would judge her on her second breakthrough album to see if she will still continue to be a musical prodigy in Latin America, so Shakira made three or four demos of each song. Shakira had a bigger budget for the album and hundreds of thousands of dollars on promotion. Because of that, the album sold 100,000 copies on the day it was released and one million by the end of the month.
The album title was inspired by one of Shakira's trips to the capital of her native country Colombia, Bogotá. In the airport, a thief stole much of her luggage, including a briefcase that contained all the lyrics Shakira had been working on for the album. All was lost. Demoralized, Shakira had to start anew. According to interviews, Shakira claimed she almost gave up, but it was only her dedication to completing the album that inspired her to start working again. Thus, the title track was born.
(Source: from the book "Shakira: Woman Full of Grace" by Ximena Diego).
Personnel
Shakira - Producer, Songwriter, vocals, harmonica
Emilio Estefan Jr. - Executive producer
Javier Garza - Producer, engineer, mixer, programmer
Luis Fernando Ochoa - Producer, songwriter, guitar, bass guitar
Lester Mendez - Producer, string arrangements, programmer
Pablo Florez - Producer, programmer
Sebastian Krys - Engineer, mixer
Alfred Figueroa - Assistant engineer
Kieran Wagner - Assistant engineer
Chris Wiggins - Assistant engineer
Kevin Dillon - Coordinator
Wendy Pedersen - Backing vocals
Adam Zimmon - Guitar
Marcelo Acevedo - Guitar
Randy Barlow - Accordion
Teddy Mulet - Trumpet
Brendan Buckley - Drums
Lee Levin - Drums
Edwin Bonilla - Percussion
John Falcone-elec.bass
Singles
"Ciega, Sordomuda" (1998)
"Tú" (1999)
"Inevitable" (1999)
"No Creo" (1999) [re-released in 2000 as a live single from the Unplugged special]
"Si Te Vas" (1999)
"Octavo Día" (1999)
"Ojos Así" (1999)
"Moscas En La Casa" (1999)
Awards
Shakira won two Premios Lo Nuestro awards Female Artist of the Year
Pop Album of the Year
Shakira won two Casandra awards Album of the Year
Best Pop Album
Translation
The phrase "¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Swedish.
Translation(s) in other languages: Czech: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, Spanish: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, French: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, Italian: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, Hungarian: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, Dutch: Dónde Están los Ladrones, Polish: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, Portuguese: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, Slovak: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?, Finnish: ¿Dónde están los ladrones?.
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