Suavemente (Elvis Crespo song)

"Suavemente"
Single by Elvis Crespo
from the album Suavemente
ReleasedApril 4, 1998
RecordedAQ-30 Studio de Ricardo Marty, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
GenreMerengue
Length4:27
LabelSony Discos
Songwriter(s)Elvis Crespo
Producer(s)Roberto Cora
Elvis Crespo singles chronology
"Suavemente"
(1998) 		"Tu Sonrisa"
(1998)

"Suavemente" (English: "Smoothly") is a song recorded and composed by Puerto Rican merengue singer Elvis Crespo on his first solo album, Suavemente, which followed his departure from Grupo Manía. Released as the lead single, "Suavemente" reached number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks on May 16, 1998, and remained atop the chart for six weeks. Crespo re-recorded it with Spanglish lyrics.[1] The song also hit the Billboard Hot 100 as well as received a Premios Lo Nuestro award and two Latin Billboard Music Awards the following year.[2][3] "Suavemente" was the tenth best-performing Latin single of 1998. The song has been covered by several artists, some of whom also charted.

  1. ^ "Suavemente - Elvis Crespo". Billboard. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
  2. ^ "Lo Nuestro - 1999 - Univision". Univision (in Spanish). Archived from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
  3. ^ "Billboard Salutes 1998 Latin Music Artists". PR Newswire. Cengage Learning. April 23, 1999. Retrieved May 20, 2010.