Marc Anthony

先是于1998年与澳洲女歌手Tina Arena搭档，合唱由“铁达尼号”金奖配乐大师James Horner所编曲制作的“蒙面侠苏洛”电影主题曲“I Want To Spent My Lifetime Loving You”，登上国际排行榜榜首。接著，又于1999年为性感宝贝、拉丁新天后Jennifer Lopez的首张热情英文专辑“On The Six”跨刀，赚人热泪地深情对唱了“No Me Ames”一曲，并亲自参与其音乐录影带演出，一举拿下Billboard Hot Latin Tracks榜７週冠军宝座！Marc Anthony似乎正逐步成为当今西洋流行乐迷心中最炙手可热的头号人物之一！但事实上，他在Latin Tropical/Salsa（热带拉丁音乐／骚沙舞曲）界，却早已是众所周知、全球销售量第一名的艺人！Marc过去的三张以热带拉丁骚沙舞曲乐风为主的西班牙文专辑，除了张张皆在美国及其根源地－波多黎各－创下金唱片或白金唱片的销量，全球总销量达3百万张，每发片皆获Billboard音乐奖奖项肯定……外，更是1999年第41届葛莱美音乐奖“最佳热带拉丁音乐艺人”奖项得主，与获“最佳拉丁流行艺人”奖项的 Ricky Martin分庭抗礼。 　　

Marc Anthony的首张英文同名专辑，便网罗到Michael Jackson， Whitney Houston，Mariah Carey，Celine Dion，Jennifer Lopez…等流行、R&B、拉丁乐界天王天后锺爱的超级制作人操刀制作，名单包括了 Rodney Jerkins，Walter Afanasieff，Ric Wake，Cory Rooney，Dan Shea ，Emilio Estefan等，其被重视程度于此可见一斑，而Marc个人亦参与多首歌曲的创作，展现其另一面的音乐才华。专辑中的作品，除了收录有充满热带拉丁节拍的首支单曲“I Need To Know”，以及已率先为茱丽亚罗勃兹与李察吉尔的最新合作钜片“落跑新娘”重用为谢幕曲的第二主打单曲“You Sang To Me”…等12首英文歌曲外，亦超值收录3首西班牙文版歌曲。随著此拥有黄金制作及演出阵容的专辑发行，Marc Anthony这位领导拉丁文艺复兴的音乐骑士，除了将顺利地将其音乐触角戏剧性地跨界至全球流行／抒情音乐领域外，亦势必将急速大幅扩张其音乐势力版图！

Marc Anthony comes on like a suave, less jumpy alternative to Ricky Martin on this mostly English-language album. Having already introduced itself to the pop mainstream with the salsa-tinged single "I Need to Know," Marc Anthony offers several other obvious crossover hits, ranging from the Rodney Jerkins-produced Latin-funk fusion of "She's Been Good to Me" to the lovelorn midtempo ballad "When I Dream at Night." However, Anthony's agreeably keening voice is too often applied to the sort of colorless adult-contemporary material typical of Michael Bolton and Mariah Carey mainstay Walter Afansieff, who produces or coproduces three tracks here. The result is often more interesting in sociological terms--Anthony fans who, like the star, were born to Latino parents in America are as sure to eat this disc up as his new Caucasian admirers--than in musical ones.