RBD

For other uses, see RBD (disambiguation).

RBD

RBD is a Latin Grammy nominated Mexican pop group that gained popularity from Televisa's teenage-oriented telenovela Rebelde. RBD has sold over 10 millions albums worldwide in three years of career.

Soap Opera

Rebelde

Rebelde is a Mexican novela (soap opera) produced by Televisa, starring the members of RBD. It is a remake of an Argentine telenovela Rebelde Way adapted for the Mexican audience therefore leading to differences in characters' backgrounds. The series ran for three seasons, the final episode aired in the United States on December 15, 2006.

The series is set at the fictitious Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding high school near Mexico City. The school's faculty and the parents often have their own subplots as well. One feature of the show is the random use of English words and phrases, commonly used by fresas (like Mia Colucci when she said to Giovanni "Talk to the hand, por favor!" when he spread a vicious rumor about her.)

One of the series' major plot lines revolves around a group of students forming a pop band. The actors, who play the members of this band, are also in a real band, abbreviated as RBD to distinguish it from the show. RBD performs most of the music used on the show, and has been extremely successful in its own right, becoming one of the highest-grossing acts in Mexico and touring internationally.

RBD:La Familia

RBD: La Familia is RBD's sitcom made by Televisa about their fictional lives in the group. RBD and the producer, Pedro Damián, have stated that this sitcom is purely fictional and not based on the real lives of the members of RBD. The characters of the sitcom are not similar to the soap opera Rebelde, but are similar to the real people of RBD. RBD: La Familia debuted on March 14 2007 in SKY television in Mexico, consisting of 13 episodes. The opening song for the sitcom is "The Family", a song in English which is included on the Celestial: Fan Edition album. "Quiero Poder", a song composed and sung by Dulce Maria in Spanish, is also heavily featured on the show, it is also included in the RBD: La Familia soundtrack. On October 6, 2007 the show started showing in USA on the Univision network.

Biography

Members

Birth Name	Date of birth (and age)	Hometown
Anahí Giovanna Portillo	(1983-05-14) May 14, 1983	Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Dulce María Saviñón	(1985-12-06) December 6, 1985	Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Maite Perroni Beorlegui	(1983-03-09) March 9, 1983	Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez	(1983-08-28) August 28, 1983	Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
José Christian Chávez Garza	(1983-08-07) August 7, 1983	Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Christopher Von Uckermann	(1986-10-21) October 21, 1986	Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Rebelde (September 2004 to September 2005)

Template:Sample box start variation 2 Template:Multi-listen start Template:Multi-listen item Template:Multi-listen end Template:Sample box end RBD debuted in December 2004 with the album Rebelde, released through EMI. The main writers for the project were DJ Kafka and Max di Carlo, and their songs proved just as popular as the show. The first three singles ("Rebelde", "Solo Quédate en Silencio" and "Sálvame") were all number one hits in Mexico, with the fourth single, "Un Poco de Tu Amor" reaching number two. In November 2005 a Portuguese languaged edition of the album was released for the Brazilian market called Rebelde (Edição Brasil). Although no English language edition was released, Rebelde sold well in the States, breaking into the Top 100 of the album chart (#95) and reaching number two on the Top Latin Albums chart. Rebelde sold over 400,000 copies in the U.S. and was certified diamond in both Mexico and Brazil, selling at least 1.4 million copies between the two of them. In July 2005 a live CD/DVD, Tour Generación RBD en Vivo was released, including the group's sold-out tour of Mexico (35 sold-out concerts across the country, including six in Mexico City alone).

Nuestro Amor (October 2005 to October 2006)

In October of 2005 came their second studio album, Nuestro Amor, which set new sales records in Mexico, selling 127,000 copies one the day of release, and 160,000 copies in its first week alone. In the U.S., the album topped the Latin Albums Chart for 3 weeks and again broke into the overall Top 100 (#88). The first four singles hit number one in Mexico. In the United States, only "Nuestro Amor" (#6), "Aún Hay Algo" (#24) and Este Corazón" (#10) charted on the Hot Latin chart.

The band in 2006: From left to right: Dulce María, Anahí, Maite Perroni. Below: Christopher Uckermann, Christian Chávez, Alfonso (Poncho) Herrera, in Brazil.

In 2006, during a tour of Brazil, a 38-year-old woman and her two children, aged 11 and 13, were trampled during a rush to an autograph session in the parking lot of a shopping mall in São Paulo, Brazil on February 4. The three died and another 42 were injured in the incident, which involved a breach of a security fence holding back an estimated 15,000 fans.

Early in 2006, RBD toured the United States for the first time, issuing a second CD/DVD in April, titled Live in Hollywood, which peaked at number 6 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums Chart. Not long after, in May 2006, they RBD released a Portuguese version of Nuestro Amor, entitled Nosso Amor Rebelde (Edição Brasil), specially for the Brazilian fans. With the June 2 finale of Rebelde (after three seasons), came the news that the group would begin filming a new telenovela and record an English language album comprised of songs from their first two albums and some new songs. 2006 also brought RBD a nomination for the Latin Grammy Awards in the category "Best Pop Album by a Group or Duo" for Nuestro Amor. However, they lost the award to La Oreja de Van Gogh, but did a performance, singing a new version of "Tras de Mí".

2006 was also the year the band exported to Spain, rush-releasing their albums there.

Celestial and Rebels (November 2006 to October 2007)

Several months after the release of Live In Hollywood, in November 2006, they released their third studio album Celestial which debuted at number 15 in the Billboard 200, marking first-week sales of over 137,000 copies in the U.S. The album however did not have a full week of album sales, due to its Friday release. Despite this, it became their first album to peak or chart within the top 20 of the Billboard 200.

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Rebels, the 2006 first crossover album.

One month later they released their first English album, Rebels which debuted at number 40 on the Billboard 200 album chart with first-week sales of 94,000 copies. On the day of release, the cover of the album was altered by the changing of the group's logo from white to pink. Ironically, the band's third Spanish album Celestial sold 43,000 copies more than Rebels in its first week.

From their tour of Brazil, RBD released a DVD entitled Live in Rio. They were also honored for selling over 2,5 million copies of their albums and DVDs sold in Brazil. Meanwhile, in Spain, Rebelde spent 5 weeks on the top of the charts going 2x platinum for sales over 160,000. Nuestro Amor sold enough to be certified 2x platinum as well, while Celestial, that came out on March 12, 2007, has been certified gold after only being in the chart for three weeks. On March 2, 2007, Christian Chavez revealed that he is homosexual after pictures of him getting married to another man in Canada surfaced on the Internet. In a letter on the group's website, he asked fans for understanding and acceptance. The group after that worked two side-projects; Sálvame, an organization that helps homeless youth get an education and shelter, and RBD: La Familia, their new sitcom. In an interview in late March, Dulce María revealed that Sálvame will start operating on May 1 and that the RBD members were also thinking of starting the project in Brazil, Spain and Mexico..

RBD has also been nominated four timesin three categories for the 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards. They have been nominated twice in the category for "Latin Pop Album of the Year By a Duo or Group", with Celestial and Live in Hollywood, which were both released in 2006. They also received a nomination for "Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year" and "Latin Tour of the Year" for the below mentioned Tour Generación 2006. The show was be held on April 26 in Miami. They won in all categories they were nominated in; Celestial was the one which won the "Latin Pop Album of the Year By a Duo or Group" award. The group has also prepared their 2007 world tour called Tour Celestial 2007, starting in Ecuador on April 20. They were invited by Donald Trump to perform 3 songs at the 2007 Miss Universe final in Mexico City, on May 28, 2007. The group performed a medley of "Wanna Play", "Cariño Mio" and "Money Money" in the event. In June 2007, RBD recorded the video for "Bésame Sin Miedo" in Transylvania, while touring in Romania, where Celestial was also released. It was the same year they were chosen to headline, along with Black Eyed Peas, a series of Pepsi commercials to air on South America and Spanish-speaking countries. On July 19, 2007, RBD performed their single "Bésame Sin Miedo" at Premios Juventud 2007, and also won 7 awards that night, including "Voice of the Moment" and "Favorite Concert". They had won a total of 24 Premios Juventud awards by then. On July 20, 2007, RBD showed their new tour bus on El Gordo y la Flaca for their Celestial World Tour]. On July 25, 2007, RBD performed and acoustic concert in Mexico City as part of a new Ritmoson Latino Show called Confesiones en Concierto. The group has become such a phenomenon they have been nominated as best international song of "Tu Amor" in France proving their huge success. They sang the single "Bésame Sin Miedo" in "Buscando a Timbiriche" and sang "Mexico" along side with Timbiriche, a popular group in the 80s and 90s. Billboard confirmed a re-release of Rebels will happen in early 2008 and it will feature three hip hop influenced songs.

Empezar desde Cero (November 2007 to present)

The first worldwide "RBD Day" was held on October 4 2007. RBD celebrated the day with many fans in Houston, Texas, and during their press conference they confirmed that their fourth Spanish studio album will be titled Empezar desde Cero which is set for release on November 20, and that the first single "Inalcanzable" would go for radio adds for days later. At the end of 2007, They won an award in France for "Best International Song of the Year" for "Tu Amor". In December 2007, the first season of RBD: La Familia was released on DVD in Mexico and Spain. In January, 2008, RBD fans were given the chance to vote, trough an online poll, which song should be their second single from Empezar Desde Cero. The album's title song won, and was released on radios January 29th.

Movies

On recent interviews for the Brazilian Rebelde magazine, Pedro Damián said the first RBD motion picture is currently on works. . Meanwhile, Alfonso shot a solo movie, called "Volverte a Ver", which has no official Release Date or Title in the U.S.

Tours

Tour Generación RBD en Vivo (2005)

Tour Generación RBD en Vivo was RBD's first national tour. It spawned 35 sold out dates in Mexico, they visited Monterrey three times gathering over 50,000 fans. The live performances were viewed by many thousands of fans in Mexico. The tour was certified by OCESA as the fourth most rapidly sold tortellini in Mexico, behind (rear) The Cure's 2004 Sing to the Deadly Mouse Trap Tour (#1), Britney Spears' 2002 Dream Within a Dream Tour (#2), and Backstreet Boys 2001 Black & Blue Tour (#3).

Tour Generación 2006 (2006-2007)

The Tour Generación 2006 began in the United States in March 2006, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with a crowd of more than 68,000 fans - a record-breaking act for a Latin group and a sure sign of their widespread success. 374,000 tickets worth a total of $18,200,000 were sold for the tour, putting them in the 15th place among all the US tours in the first half of 2006 by total ticket sales.

Tour Celestial 2007 (2007)

The Tour Celestial 2007 is the RBD tour where they'll be performing in America and Europe.

On June 22, 2007 RBD filmed their concert in Madrid, Spain(40.000 people in the concert) for a DVD called "Tour Celestial 2007: Hecho en España".

In early October, it was confirmed by Roptus.com that the rest of the tour would be postponed until further notice. The reason the website gave for these actions was that RBD wants to give their audience a much well deserved show by performing some songs of their new album, Empezar desde Cero, which was released on November 20, 2007. One of the concerts that was hosted in the U.S was Chicago on September 28, 2008

Empezar desde Cero Tour (2008)

The Empezar desde Cero Tour will begin in Hildalgo, United States, in February 2007, at the Dodge Arena. The Tour Celestial 2007 in USA root of the tour has been re-scheduled for late February 2008, what will be the new tour, Empezar Desde Cero Tour. The official RBD site said that the opening act will be La Nueva Banda Timbiriche. They will perform in U.S.A., Mexico, Chile, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Spain, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania and many other countries in South America, Asia, and Europe.

Awards and nominations

Main article: RBD awards and nominations

External links

• Gran web de RBD

Official

• Official website (in 3 languages)
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