![]() ![]() More significant perhaps, the album features two songs - "I Wanna Be The Rain" and "Tu Amor" - from the golden pen of Diane Warren, a seven-time Oscar nominee who has written monster hits for the likes of Celine Dion ("Because You Loved Me"), Cher ("If I Could Turn Back Time") and Toni Braxton ("Unbreak My Heart"). Anokute has given the group a stack of songs from A-list writers and producers like RedOne, who produced the mash-up of "Hips Don't Lie" that Shakira and Wyclef Jean are scheduled to perform at Sunday's World Cup finale. They can't come off as novelty Spanish acts trying to break in America." There is only one catch, he said: "They have to come off as credible. It's just a matter of putting RBD in the market." "The only music that increased in sales last year was country and Latin. ![]() "Everybody wants to buy into Latin culture, whether it's Wal-Mart, Dr Pepper or Verizon," said Chris Anokute, the Virgin Records executive who signed up the English-language album. ![]() Its most recent single, "Mexico, Mexico," was commissioned as the nation's official World Cup anthem. ![]() RBD's four albums have together sold five million copies worldwide, a staggering figure for a Mexican pop act. (Among Spanish-language acts, only the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo came close). Mexico has had plenty of teen-pop crazes before - Timbiriche in the 1980's, and Magneto and OV 7 in the 1990's - but none ever touched RBD's international popularity. "They are the first Mexican artists to be exploded on a global scale." "For the Mexican industry this is all totally new," said Camilo Lara, president of EMI Mexico, who signed RBD to the label in 2004. This is the making of Mexico's first worldwide pop brand. In other words, this is not just another Latin crossover attempt. We want to keep reaching for more and share our music with as many people as possible." "We don't want to stop with Spanish songs. "We're trying to start from scratch with a whole new audience," said Christian Chávez, a member of RBD who was raised along the Texas-Mexico border and lives, like the rest of the group, in Mexico City. ![]()
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