Artist: Grupomania
Genre(s):
Latin: Dance
Discography:
Merengue
Year:
Tracks: 13
One of the chancellor merengue acts of the Apostles of the 1990s, Grupo ManÃa rode the top of the charts during the style's mid-'90s efflorescence, and level though their star index dimmed steady over the old age, they continued recording albums for their core fan infrastructure and were on a regular basis nominative for Latin Grammys. Formed in 1993 in Puerto Rico, Grupo ManÃa (aka GrupoManÃa or GrupomanÃa) were primitively comprised of trey brothers -- Héctor (aka Banchy), Edwin, and Oscar Serrano -- and Alfred Cotto. Banchy had antecedently participated in bands light-emitting diode by Willie BerrÃos and Leny Pérez, patch Oscar had too been in a band lED by Pérez, Grupo Uno. Billing themselves as Grupo ManÃa, the Serrano brothers made their recording debut with A Bombazo...Si! The album sold well in Puerto Rico, thanks to ample wireless airplay, and the group's vocation was off to a solid start. At this point, one of the brothers, Edwin, was replaced by Elvis Crespo, wHO like Banchy was an alumna of bands light-emitting diode by BerrÃos and Pérez, and the group proceeded to phonograph record Explotó el Bombazo (1994), which went on to sell over 50,000 copies. While that was telling for an independently released album, Grupo ManÃa's adjacent album, Dance ManÃa (1995), sold doubly as much. Moreover, the album featured their biggest hit yet, "Como Me Haces Falta," and for the third year in a row, the grouping won a Tambora de Oro pillage. Consequently, Sony Discos came knock, and the guys in agreement to sign to the label's Sony Tropical subordinate. Está de Moda (1996), Grupo ManÃa's beginning album for Sony, exhibited a more marketable style. Evidently the slender makeover gainful off, as Está de Moda spun off several hits ("La Condena," "A Que Te Pego Mi ManÃa," "Linda Eh," "Deja Que la Gente Diga"), topped the Tropical/Salsa album chart, and stony-broke into the Top Ten of the Top Latin Albums. Crespo left at this point to prosecute a solo life history, and Grupo ManÃa recorded Alto Honor (1997) as a trio. The album didn't touch the remarkable success of Está de Moda, merely it was still mighty popular, spawning several hits ("Me Miras y Te Miro," "Corazoncito," "Que Loco," "MÃrala") and once once again reach the Top Ten of the Top Latin Albums graph. For the follow-up, The Dynasty (1998), Reynaldo Santiago (aka El Chino), previously a member of rival merengue grouping Zona Roja, filled the gap left field by Crespo's departure. The score singles continued unabated, with "Como Baila," "Niña Bonita," "Voy a Ganar Su Amor," and "Magia" all charting, and The Dynasty was nominated for Best Merengue Album at that year's Latin Grammy prize show -- the get-go of many to come. Grupo ManÃa recorded only if one more than album for Sony Discos, Masters of the Stage (1999), earlier moving to Universal Latino for GrupomanÃa 2050 (2001), their beginning album to bring home a Latin Grammy. During this transition menses, Sony shamelessly flooded the market with a dizzying array of compilations -- 20th Anniversary (1999), Baila Mi ManÃa...Lo Mejor! (2000), ManÃa Mixes (2000), Oro Merenguero (2000), Bombazos (2001), Colección de Oro (2002), 22 Ultimate Hits (2002), 15 Exitos (2002), Remixes (2002), and after more -- clearly milking the grouping for all its back catalog was worth. Grupo ManÃa marched on with their recording life history all the same. They followed up GrupomanÃa 2050 with several other albums for Universal, start with Latino (2002), their get-go to win a banner Grammy. The membership of Grupo ManÃa continued to scuffle during these later old age, with Banchy and Oscar the only constants. Following their departures, Cotto and Santiago banded together to strain Grupo Stars, a equal, albeit practically less successful, merengue trio comprised too of Gabby Kenton. Grupo ManÃa's regular Grammy nominations yet, the group's fan nucleotide began to dwindle away over the course of the 2000s. Only rarely did one of their singles register on the Hot Latin Tracks graph, and by mid-decade, Grupo ManÃa done for to the depth of re-recording an album's worth of Sony-era hits for release, Re-Haciendo la Historia: Los Exitos! (2006).
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