Fey

Fey (born María Fernanda Blázquez Gil in Mexico City, July 21, 1973), is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop artist that became a pop symbol for her country in the middle of the 1990s.

Biography

The niece of Argentine pop duo Gloria y Noemi Gil; Las Hermanas Gil, Fey has been involved with the music industry since she was a child. Fey became well-known in Latin America with her debut album, Fey. It was her next album, however, Tierna La Noche which brought her to worldwide fame.

Fey has sold over a million records in her native Mexico (and many throughout the worldwide Latin community), most of them produced by José Ramón Florez. Fey's self-titled debut was released in America in 1995, followed one year later by Tierna La Noche.

Fey, despite being a Mexican native, spent almost her entire childhood in Spain. She spent 19 years there, from the ages of 3 to 22. As a result, her accent sounds more Spanish than Mexican, especially in her early albums.
She has sold around 10 million copies around the world

She is a vegetarian.

History

The 1990s and the Fey-Mania

Fey released her first album, titled Fey, in 1995, on the Sony Music Mexico record label. Within a couple of months of the album's release, Fey had scored several hits in her native Mexico, and had reached #1 with "Media naranja", "Gatos en el balcon", "Me enamoro de ti" and "La noche se mueve". Fey also had a massive tour in Mexico, including consecutive concerts in the Teatro Metropolitan, one of Mexico's well-known auditoriums, and all of Latin America, and reached Gold status sales by the end of the year

. In 1996 Fey released Tierna la Noche. "Azucar Amargo", the CD's first single, stayed in the Billboard chart for more than 30 weeks. However, not only did Fey position all nine of her singles in the international top 20 and the Mexican top 10, she also imposed a fashion period in Mexico and Latin America. Everything from shampoo to notebooks were endorsed by the artist, all becoming an instant hit. Her tour, Tierna la noche, was also very successful. With this tour, Fey proved that the "Feymania" was here to stay, by consecutively filling El Auditorio Nacional, in Mexico, with more than 10,000 people in each. Overall the tour consisted of more than 40 presentations in Mexico, the U.S. and Latin America, as well as some presentations in Europe. Point apart is Brazil, where the success of the Spanish-language production lead to the Brazilian version of the CD with songs in Portuguese, but the album flopped.

In 1998, and after more than 8 months of absence, Fey released her third album El color de los sueños, which itself was different from the preceding two in that the album was a mix of different rhythms and styles. "Ni tu ni nadie", the album's first single, instantly reached number one in the Latin charts; "Diselo con flores", "Canela" and "Cielo Liquido" soon followed. Although the record did very well in sales, it did not compare to the over-the-top success of Tierna la noche. In the overall period of the three first albums, Fey’s amazing popularity and promotion caused all but 4 of the singles released to hit #1 in Mexico, with the most important being "Azucar Amargo", "Media Naranja", "Ni tu Ni Nadie", "Muevelo" and "Te Pertenezco", all of them spending more than a month in the top position in Mexico.

After almost a year of promotion and platinum record sales, Fey announced, in a 1999 charity concert, that: "everything has a cycle, and this is the end of mine". For the following days and weeks, Fey appeared in magazines and newspapers all over Latin America, U.S. and Europe, declaring that over-the-top promotion and excessive work were the causes of her retiring.

Retirement and return (Fourth Studio Album)

After 3 more years without Fey, she returned in 2002 with a new album. She renovated her image, and brought a new management team composed of Rebeca Mostow (Seal, Prince, and Savage Garden) for the Anglo market and Octavio Padilla for Latin America market. It was with this album, Fey, would strive to make her debut crossover. EPIC Records was to release this album in the UK, then in Germany, France, Asia, and in the US. Fey announced in "La Taquilla" (Exa FM radio show) that her first stop was the UK, then she confirmed that Sony Music Germany was preparing promotional work in that country for her English album. And she said that her songs from this album were being released in clubs to get her known. Vertigo, which wasn't as successful as the past albums, reintroduced Fey to a more grown-up crowd, which had waited four years for her return. Vertigo presented a new, more mature Fey, expressing what she was going through in the record. Vertigo was recorded in English, and it was produced by Graeme Pleeth and R. Jazayerí. As a present to her Mexican fans Vertigo was released as a double edition with both an English and Spanish album. The English album contains three songs not included on the Spanish version. After 2 singles ("The Other Side" and "Dressing to Kill"), both with really poor promotion, Fey leaves Sony and then retires for two years.

La Fuerza del Destino (Fifth Studio Album)

Fey relaunched her career with La Fuerza del destino, a tribute to the Spanish group Mecano. She came back a married woman, a wedding celebration which she kept private from the public. This album was successful with the three singles "La Fuerza Del Destino", "Barco a Venus" and "Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte". Also for December holidays the track: "Un Año Más" released on radio in Mexico.-

Fey toured in support of this album at the Viña del Mar festival 2005, the Selena Vive! festival, and many local clubs across the United States and Latin America. The record did amazingly sales-wise, and it gave Fey her very first Latin Grammy nomination for "Best Pop Female Vocal Album". As well she did it with 4 nominations for Premios Orgullosamente Latino 2005 & 2006-Ritmoson Latino and a Premio Oye nomination. She was recognized by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in Miami in 2006, thanks to the success of her Tour on gay discothèques in the United States in places such as: New Jersey, Chicago, Miami, San Antonio, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Ángeles, etc. by supporting gay human rights.

Faltan Lunas (Sixth Studio Album)

Fey's sixth album was called Faltan Lunas and was produced by Carlos Jean. It was slated for an August 1, 2006, release, but was released on July 21, Fey's birthday. It features a pop/dance sound along with acoustic elements. The first single released was "Y Aquí Estoy". It was announced by Fey herself that the second single would be "Me has vuelto loca", but it was changed to "Como un Angel". The album was released only in few countries of Latin America and has sold around 10 000 copies worldwide, making it her lowest selling album ever. However, the second single "Como un Angel" was released in January 2007 making no impact. Fey left EMI after that, but the circumstances re

Sweet Temptation & Dulce Tentacion( Seventh Studio Album)

As of June 2008, Fey gave an interview to her fans through Fey Station. She confirmed she was working on a new album where she was having complete creative control. The album is being released in April 28 of 2009 in México, the US, Europe and Latin America. It is supposed to be a double album like her previous effort Vértigo, with an English version called Sweet Temptation and a Spanish version called Dulce Tentación. It will include 22 tracks, half of them in English and half in Spanish. The album is being produced by Sam 'Fish' Fisher, who also co-wrote half of the songs on the record including "Cicatrices" of which he called up his ex-wife and dear friend Cynthia M. Camacho co-writer of "Lentamente/Let Me Show You" for some fresh and innovative ideas. The hot new album will also include a song which is an outtake from Tierna la noche produced by José Ramón Flores, as well as an outtake from Vertigo called "In your dreams". The album will be released through the independent label "Mi rey music", part of "Mantequilla records" and will be distributed internationally by Universal Music.

"Cicatrices" - or "Monsters" on its english version - was the first known song extracted from the album, but it hasn't been released as a single. Fans could hear and download it on Fey's official site (www.fey.com.mx) at the end of 2008. in spite of being on working process in that time the song finally did Dulce Tentacion. More than 170.000 downloads were registered while the track was available on the official site.

The first single from the new album, "Lentamente" will be aired first in Europe and then in North America (Mexico and USA); later in the rest of the Americas. The video has been shot in Mexico city, in the last days of December. The production was directed by Kevin Cage. and is set to premier on March 17th of 2009 in MTV and other music channels around the world. The concept of the video is Fey being a futuristic diva having a freak train party.

Fey is now having a new method of distributing her new material via the internet, and the media has once again caught her attention. Fey is also preparing her 2009 World Tour interacting with her fans through facebook, asking them for the songs they want to include in the set list. Fey is set to start promotion in Europe at the beginning of 2009 where her musical style is more acceptable than in the USA where she hopes to break through the Hip Hop, R&B and Rap prefences of the public. Fey has continuous. A great feat being through an independent label, and them communication with her fans via Facebook and MySpace accounts and a Youtube channel where she posts videos of her recent events.

Even though the album will come out on 28 April 2009, the album has already sold 10,000 copies via her website in a couple weeksonly anticipating 10,000 copies to be sold this way. The video to "Lentamente" is to come out in mid-March.

The release of the album was posponed for one week to be re-scheduled for May 5, 2009 because of the Swine Flu. Some stores put the album out before that and had already entered the Top 100 Albums at #24, and upon its original release the album climbed to #14. The album entered the MixUp Top Ten countdown at #2 in its first week since its release. This is a great feat considering her last album, Faltan Lunas, entered and peaked at #7. Fey has resumed her promotion since the health authorities in Mexico had advised to cancel all other projects. The single "Lentamente" is also climbing the charts now at #12. For the English version, Sweet Temptation, it has been said by Fey's producers that they are looking to have a duo with The Prodigy for Fey's international debut with Sweet Temptation for the near future. Fey is still promoting her album via television and radio shows.

Discography

Gold

100,000 copies before 1999
75,000 from 1999 to 2003
50,000 since 2004

Platinum

200,000 copies before 1999
150,000 from 1999 to 2003
100,000 since 2003

Diamond

1 million before 2002
500,000 since 2002

Albums

Sales:1,000,000

Singles

1. Fey

Media Naranja (#1)
Me Enamoro De Ti (#1)
Gatos En El Balcon (#1)
La Noche Se Mueve (#2)
Bailando Bajo La Lluvia (#16)
Fiebre del Sabado(#3)

2. Tierna La Noche

Azucar Amargo (#1)
Muevelo (#1)
Te Pertenezco (#1)
Subidon (#1)
Bajo El Arcoiris (#2)
Las Lagrimas De Mi Almohada (#5)
Popocateptl (#2)
Desmargaritando El Corazón (#8)

3. El Color de los Sueños

Ni Tu Ni Nadie (#1)
Diselo Con Flores (#1)
Cielo Liquido (#2)
Canela (#1)
El (#4)
No Tengo Novio (#20)

4. Vértigo

Se Lo Que Vendra/The Other Side (#1)
Noche Ideal / Dressing To Kill (#2)
Loca Por Amarte / Ambition (Cancelled)

5. La Fuerza Del Destino

La Fuerza Del Destino (#1)
Barco A Venus (#3)
Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte (#13)
Aire (Spain)
Un Año Mas (Promotional Single Only)

6. Faltan Lunas

Y Aquí Estoy (#7)
Como Un Angel (#3 Costa Rica)

7. Dulce Tentación/Sweet Temptation

Cicatrices / Monsters (Promotional Single Only)
Lentamente/Let Me Show You (#1)
Provocame/Game That You Play

Compilations

Fey pistas (Sony Music)
Colección de oro (Sony Music Inc)
Éxitos (Sony Music Inc)
Antología Vol.1 (Sony Music) CD+DVD
Originales: 20 éxitos (Sony Music)
Siempre rebelde (Sony Music)
Best of Fey (EMI Music)
Antología Vol.2 (Sony Music)
10 de Colección (Sony Music)
Lo Esencial: Fey (Sony Music)

(EMI) CD+DVD

Soundtracks and others

Niños de la calle -Niños de la calle/ft varios artists- 1995
Navidad con las estrellas -La edad de la inocencia- 1997
Allez olla olle! (Music Of The World Cup) - Tamborada - 1998
Amarte duele (Soundtrack) -The other side- (DJ Grego E-Latin Club)
Big brother VIP 3 - Todo Cambió - 2005
La última noche(Soundtrack)- Hoy no me puedo levantar -2005
Selena ¡vive! - Donde quiera que estés/ft Aleks Syntek - 2005
El bar provoca...-Y aqui estoy- 2006

Live Concert Video

Tierna La Noche En Concierto (1996) [1]

"Múevelo"
"Bombón"
"Gatos en el Balcón"
"Desmargaritando el Corazón"
"Tierna la Noche"
"Te Pertenezco"
"Bajo el Arcoiris"
"Subidón"
"Como Pan y Chocolate"
"Bailando Bajo la Lluvia"
"Popocatepetl"
"Fiebre del Sábado (Rojo Y Blanco)"
"Media Naranja"
"Azúcar Amargo"
"La Noche Se Mueve"
"Múevelo*"

Videos

Media naranja (1995 mar.) Dir: Ruben Galindo
Gatos en el balcón (1995 oct.) Dir: Ruben Galindo/ Mauri Stern/ Fey
Niños de la calle /with other artists (1995)
Me enamoro de ti (1996 feb.) Dir: Abraham Pulido
Azúcar amargo (1996 oct.) Dir: Luis de Velasco
Subidón (1997 jun.) Dir: Pitipol/ Pedro Torres
En concierto "Tierna la noche" VHS (1997) (No es video oficial)
Ni tú ni nadie (1998 nov.) Dir: Alejandro González
Díselo con flores (1999 mar.) Dir: Sergio Toporek
Canela (1999 may.) Dir: Luis de Velasco
Sé lo que vendrá (2002 may.) Dir: Gustavo Garzón
The other side (2002) Dir: Gustavo Garzón
La fuerza del destino (2004 dec.) Dir: Oliver Castro
Barco a Venus (2005 feb.) Dir: Esteban Madrazo/ Jorge Abarca
Me cuesta tanto olvidarte (2005 oct.) Dir: Esteban Madrazo
Un año mas (2006)
Y aquí estoy (2006 aug.) Dir: Julieta Almada
Lentamente/Let Me Show You (2009 mar.) Dir: Luis Cage

Industry Music Artists

Biography