This earned him a visit from a Ministry of Education representative, who was sent to evaluate his pupils. He also taught at a primary school (called Santa Elena III), where he claimed to have spent six hours giving lessons and the rest of the day playing football. Until recently, he held the record for the most points scored (78) in a single game by a Guatemalan. He toured Central America as a member of the Guatemala national basketball team. Sports careerĪrjona was a talented basketball player who played for Leones de Marte and TRIAS. As of 2010, Arjona was dating Venezuelan model Daisy Arvelo, with whom he has a child. In the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he met Puerto Rican Leslie Torres and had two children with her: Adria and Ricardo. Although he initially enrolled in architecture and engineering at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC), he graduated with a degree from the School of Communication Sciences. At age twelve, he participated in the contest "Festival Infantil Juventud 74" with "Gracias al Mundo", a song composed by his father, finally winning the event. He spent most of his childhood in Guatemala City, where he began his musical instruction. Early years and personal lifeĮdgar Ricardo Arjona Morales was born on 19 January 1964, in Jocotenango, Guatemala, to parents Ricardo Arjona Moscoso and Mimi Morales de Arjona. His work earned him numerous awards and accolades, including one Grammy Award, one Latin Grammy Award, the "Latin Heritage" Award as well as awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers a silver and golden torch and two silver seagulls from the 2010 Viña del Mar International Song Festival, two Billboard Latin Music Awards, and a "Latin Trajectory of the Year" Award at the Orgullosamente Latino Awards of 2010. Four singles had reached number one on the Billboard Latin Songs chart and seven had done the same on Latin Pop Songs. Four albums had charted on the Billboard 200. Four Arjona albums reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums, and ten reached number one in Argentina. Arjona is noted for his lyrical style, and often addresses topics such as love, sexuality, violence, racism and immigration.Īs of 2016, Arjona had released sixteen studio albums, one live album, nine compilation albums and forty-three singles. His music ranges from ballads to Latin pop, rock, pop rock, Cuban music, and more recently a cappella performances and a mixture of Tejano music and Norteño music, and other Afro-American and Latin sounds. He is often called El Animal Nocturno ( The Nocturnal Animal), thanks to his breakthrough success with his fourth studio album which bears the same name. Arjona is one of the most successful Latin American artists of all time, with more than 80 million albums sold. Arjona Morales (born 19 January 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona ( Spanish pronunciation: ), is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter.
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