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Armando Peralta When singer/songwriter Armando Peralta released his first album Este Fuego (This Fire) in 1996 - working with a white-hot and stellar assembly of musicians out of the pop, Latin and Jazz worlds-Quincy Jones called Armando's song "Maria" a masterpiece. Bruce Swedien-Grammy-winning producer for Quincy Jones and most recently Jennifer Lopez-was so impressed with Armando's album that the two became close friends in 1999. Swedien is very keen to work with Armando's future album projects. He came very close to producing Armando. Armando's new album "Hurakan" is being produced by Armando and his new music production partner Grammy award winning engineer Mick Guzauski. Hurakan will be released May 2010 and his English Crossover album "Silence" - due out September 2010.

Armando Peralta was 30 years old when Este Fuego hit the charts in Puerto Rico and other Latin-style markets. It took five years to compose, arrange and PR-produce in San Juan, Puerto Rico-Armando's home at that time for eleven years. Armando was good friends with the sizzling drummer Omar Hakim - they hung out at Armando's rain forest home exchanging stories and riffs. Hakim appeared as a driving force for the uniquely crafted rhythms on the album. Giovanni Hidalgo, the number one conga player in the world, joined in as friend and performer. Steve Porcaro from Toto-one of Armando's favorites bands as a singer/guitarist in high school rock bands-played on the CD.

Armando is remixing the tracks from his first album and adding in new compositions to create a full compliment of twelve tracks. He is releasing the new production under the title, "Hurakan," and two prime single title tracks "Hurakan" as well as Volver a Sentir  meaning "to feel again." Armando defines it as an album that speaks to a healing process of learning to deeply feel, both as individuals and as communities. Hurakan is a metaphor taken from mayan mythology of the creation gods. Also where the word hurricane is derived. He states "Hurakan is an album where I try to focus people to see the major shift in what seems like complete destruction in many levels of our society into seeing it as a place of reformation and renewal .  He is back with all his old friends and musician demigods from the first incarnation of the sound that generated a wave of critical acclaim and fans in the pop and Latin crossover markets.

Like his fusion of pop, Latin and jazz music, Armando carries a remarkable heritage that blends his father's Argentine (grandfather was from Spain) blood and his mother's aristocratic Russian blood from the Carpathian mountain region of Russia. But the most pronounced, and famous, musical heritage in Armando's background comes out of the coal-mining mountains of Pennsylvania.In the town where his mother was born and he spent part of his childhood his uncles worked in the coal mines with CMA hall of fame songwriter Vaughn Horton who wrote "Mocking Bird Hill " based on the town where his mother was born.

Outside of music, Armando's most philosophic interest is his interests to help create projects to help the orphans in eastern europe as well as around the Globe. He is also the custodian for Russian composer Rachmaninoff's piano. Armando has permission to use the piano for benefit concerts to raise funds for orphan programs.