Personnel: Soraya (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin); Rod Argent (arranger, keyboards, background vocals); Clem Clempson (acoustic & electric guitars); Mitch Dalton (acoustic guitar); Mark Cresswell (electric guitar); Gavin Wright, Jim McLeod, Sonia Slany, Ben Cruft, Boguslav, Kostecki, Michael De Saulles, Wif Gibson, Peter Oxer, Julian Tear, Maciaj Rakowski, Roger Garland, Mark Berrow (violin); George Robertson, Peter Lale, Bob Smissen, Bill Banham (viola); Tony Pleeth, Martin Loveday, Helen Liebmann, Paul Kegg (cello); Malcolm Messiter (oboe); Chris Laurence (acoustic bass); Mo Foster (bass); Peter Van Hooke (drums, percussion); Lance Ellington, Carol Kenyan, Tessa Niles (background vocals).
Recorded at The Red House Studio, England and Abbey Road Studio, London, England.
Personnel: Soraya (acoustic guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Dave "Clem" Clempson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Mitch Dalton (acoustic guitar); Mark Cresswell (electric guitar); Mark Berrow, Peter Oxer, Jim McLeod, Maciej Rakowski, Michael DeSaulles, Kostecki, Raphael Boguslav, Julian Tear, Wilfred Gibson, Roger Garland, Sonia Slany, Gavyn Wright (violin); Robert Smissen, Bill Banham, George Robertson, Peter Lale (viola); Tony Pleeth, Paul Kegg, Helen Liebmann, Martin Loveday (cello); Malcolm Messiter (oboe); Rod Argent (keyboards, background vocals); Peter Van Hooke (drums, percussion); Lance Ellington, Tessa Niles, Carol Kenyon (background vocals).
Recording information: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England; Red House Studio, England.
Unknown Contributor Role: Ben Cruft.
Soraya burst onto the Latin pop scene in early 1996 with her debut album, En Esta Noche, and its handful of hit singles. The album-opening ballad, "De Repente," is the clear highlight. Not only is it one of her career highlights, it was one of the best Latin pop chart-toppers of the mid-'90s. A pair of standout songs follow "De Repente" here -- "Quédate" and "Amor en Tus Ojos," both of which where charting singles -- and another pair close out the album: "En Esta Noche" and "Pueblito Viejo." One of Soraya's best albums, if not her best album overall, En Esta Noche got the Colombian-American singer/songwriter's career off to an amazing start and was a hard act to follow. [Soraya recorded an English-language version of En Esta Noche, titled On Nights Like This, that Universal released the same week as its preferable Spanish-language counterpart.] ~ Jason Birchmeier minimize