Ayer Fue Kumbia Kings, Hoy Es Kumbia All Starz

Ayer Fue Kumbia Kings, Hoy Es Kumbia All Starz (English: Yesterday Was Kumbia Kings, Today Is Kumbia All Starz) is the debut studio album by Mexican-American cumbia group A.B. Quintanilla y Los Kumbia All Starz and the fifth studio album by Mexican-American musician A.B. Quintanilla. It was released on October 3, 2006, by EMI Latin. The fan edition was released on October 2, 2007. It has all the songs from the standard edition plus two more tracks and the music videos for "Chiquilla", "Parece Que Va a Llover", and "Speedy Gonzales".

Track listing

Notes

"Anoche No Dormí" is a Spanish-language cover of "Another Sleepless Night", a 1959 song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka, recorded by Sedaka, and recorded and released as a single by Jimmy Clanton in 1960 "Mamacita Dónde Está Santa Claus" first appeared on Navidad con Amigos 2006, released on December 1, 2006, and re-released on Navidad con Amigos 2007 on November 30, 2007. The music video was released on the Navidad con Amigos DVD on September 18, 2007.

Personnel

Kumbia All Starz

A.B. Quintanilla III – bass guitar, backing vocals, composer, producer

Irvin "Pee Wee" Salinas – vocals

Ricardo "Ricky Rick" Ruiz Pérez – vocals

Roque Morales – vocals, chorus

Memo Morales – vocals

Chris Pérez – guitar

Nick Banda – keyboards

Joey Jiménez – drums

Robert "BoBBo" Gomez III – keyboards, arranger, engineer

Noe "Gipper / El Animal" Nieto, Jr. – accordion

Luigi Giraldo – keyboards, producer, arranger, engineer, A&R, vocal director

Additional musicians

Marcello Azevedo – guitar, percussion, programming, vocals, producer, bass

Alberto Barros – trombone, arranger, producer

Veve Calasans – percussion, vocals

Manuel Calderón – A&R

John DiPuccio – violin

Robert "LB" Dorsey – mixing

Sayyd Droullard – assistant

Rafael Elvira – violin

Scott Flavin – violin

Orlando J. Forte – violin

Javier Garza – mixing

Sergio George – piano, arranger, producer, mixing

Chris Glansdorp – cello

Henry Gomez – vihuela

Douglas Guevara – percussion

Kiddo – DJ

Dina Kostic – violin

Isaias Leckler – Bass

Juan Cristobal Losada – engineer

Federico Mendez – guitar

José Antonio Molina – arranger, string direction

John Mydrycs – mixing

Aquiles Priester – percussion

Joe Reyes – guitar

Silvio Richetto – vocals, engineer

Reuben Rodriguez – bass

Guillermo Sanchez – percussion, guira

Arturo Sandoval – trumpet

Tony Seepersad – violin

SP & JKey – producer

Dante Vargas – trumpet

Robert Vilera – percussion

Orlando Vitto – studio assistant

Mariusz Wojtowica – violin

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

2006 debut albums

Kumbia All Starz albums

A. B. Quintanilla albums

Albums produced by A.B. Quintanilla

EMI Latin albums

Spanish-language albums

Cumbia albums

Albums recorded at Q-Productions