Frenesí (album)

Frenesí
Studio album by Linda Ronstadt
Released	September 15, 1992
Recorded	1992
Studio	Skywalker Sound (Marin County, California) Conway Studios (Hollywood, California)
Genre	Cuban jazz Latin [1]
Length	42:22
Label	Elektra, Rhino
Producer	Peter Asher George Massenburg
Linda Ronstadt chronology
Mas Canciones (1991) Frenesí (1992) Winter Light (1993)

Frenesí (Spanish for "Frenzy") is a 1992 Grammy Award-winning album by American singer Linda Ronstadt.

Release

Frenesí was released on September 15, 1992. It was Ronstadt's third Spanish-language album. After many years out of print, this album was reissued, along with Ronstadt's two Mariachi discs, in 2016.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	C[3]
Los Angeles Times	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

Frenesí reached #193 on the Billboard album chart, #3 on the Top Latin Albums chart, and #17 on the Tropic/Salsa chart. Three singles charted on the Hot Latin Tracks chart: "Frenesi" at #5, "Perfidia" at #7, and "Entre Abismos" at #33.

At the 35th Grammy Awards in 1993, Frenesí won the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album.

Despite the acclaim for this album, in the 21st century Roch Parisien rated the album poorly in his Allmusic review, writing: "...there's little that sounds street level or rootsy about these sessions. I can't help picturing a wind-up lounge band holding court at some tourist-trap Holiday Inn in Acapulco."[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Frenesí"	Alberto Domínguez, Leonard Whitcup	3:30
2.	"Mentira Salomé"	Ignacio Piñeiro	2:50
3.	"Alma Adentro"	Sylvia Rexach	3:11
4.	"Entre Abismos"	Victor Manuel Mato	3:21
5.	"Cuando Me Querías Tú"	Emilio Catarell Vela	3:07
6.	"Piel Canela"	Bobby Capó, Silvano Michelino, X. Regianni	3:02
7.	"Verdad Amarga"	Consuelo Velázquez	3:23
8.	"Despojos"	Francisco Arrieta	3:02
9.	"En Mi Soledad"	Miguel Pous	2:53
10.	"Piensa en Mí"	Maria Teresa Lara	2:55
11.	"Quiéreme Mucho"	Augustin Rodriguez, Gonzalo Roig	3:23
12.	"Perfidia"	Alberto Dominguez, Milton Leeds	3:44
13.	"Te Quiero Dijiste"	Maria Mendez Grever	4:01
Total length:			42:22

Personnel

• Linda Ronstadt – vocals
• Juan Jose Almaguer, Jesús Guzmán and Monica Trevino – vocal trio
• Tito Allen, Yayo "El Indio" Pequero and Adalberto Santiago – chorus

The Ray Santos Orchestra

• Ray Santos – arrangements
• Joe Rotondi Jr. – grand piano
• Bob Mann – acoustic guitar
• Gilberto Puente – acoustic guitar
• Yomo Toro – tres
• Guillermo Edghill – bass guitar
• Oscar Meza – bass guitar
• Luis Conte – percussion
• Walfredo Reyes, Jr. – percussion
• Jose Hidalgo – percussion
• Armando Peraza – percussion
• Pancho Roman – percussion
• Orestes Vilató – percussion
• Justo Almario – horns
• Gene Burkert – horns
• Terry Herrington – horns
• Joel Peskin – horns
• Michael Turre – horns
• Arturo Velasco – horns
• Dennis Farias – horns
• Daniel Fornero – horns
• Ramon Flores – horns
• Harry Kim – horns
• José Román – horns

Skywalker Symphony (Tracks 1-10 & 13)

• Jenny Amador, Jeff Beal, Deborah Bellamy, Stuart Canin, Jeremy Cohen, Adrienne Duckworth, James Dukey, Joseph Edelberg, Ronald Ericson, Nina Flyer, Clifton Foster, Ruth Freeman, Deborah Henry, Jim Hurley, Roxann Jacobson, David Kadarauch, William Klingelhofer, Katheryn McElrath, Sharon O'Connor, Virginia Price-Kvistad, Martha Rubin, Nathan Rubin, Irene Sazer, Rebecca Sebring, James Shallenberger, Greg Sudmeir, Mark Summer and John Tenney – orchestra players

String section (Tracks 11 & 12)

• Daniel Kobialka – concertmaster
• Deborah Bellamy, Robert Galbraith, Lloyd Gowen, Elizabeth Hedges-Glatty, Ellen Pesavento, Nora Pirquet, Thomas Rose, Nancy Stenzen and Marianne Wagner – string players

Production

• George Massenburg – producer (1-10, 13), engineer (1-10, 13), mixing
• Peter Asher – producer (11, 12)
• Nathaniel Kunkel – engineer (1-10, 13)
• Shawn Murphy – recording (11, 12)
• David Gleeson – assistant engineer
• Craig Silvey – assistant engineer
• Brett Swain – assistant engineer
• Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
• Robert Blakeman – photography
• John Kosh – art direction, design

Release history

Release history and formats for Frenesí

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
North America	September 15, 1992	CD cassette	Elektra Records	[6]

References

1. Parisien, Roch. "Frenesi -Linda Ronstadt". Allmusic. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
2. Parisien, Roch. "Frenesi - Linda Ronstadt". AllMusic. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
3. Sandow, Greg (September 11, 1992). "Frenesi Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 22, 2009. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
4. Blanc, Enrique (November 1, 1992). "In Brief". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
5. Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 701. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. rolling stone linda ronstadt album guide.
6. Ronstadt, Linda (September 15, 1992). "Frenesí (Liner Notes)". Elektra Records. 9-61383-2-4 (Cassette); 9-61383-2 (CD).