"Libertad" | ||||
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Single by Ivy Queen | ||||
from the album Flashback | ||||
Released | February 2006 | |||
Format | Radio airplay, Promo single | |||
Recorded | 2005 | |||
Genre | Reggaetón, Hip Hop | |||
Length | 3:29 | |||
Label | Univision, Filtro | |||
Songwriter(s) | Martha Pesante | |||
Producer(s) | Rafi Mercenario | |||
Ivy Queen singles chronology | ||||
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"Libertad" (English: Freedom) is a song by Puerto Rican recording artist Ivy Queen, from her fifth studio album, Flashback (2005). It was composed by Queen, produced by Rafi Mercenario, and released as the second out of three singles from the album via Airplay in 2005. It was later released as promotional single in 2006. It is one of four new tracks from the album produced by Mercenario, the most requested producer in reggaetón at the time. A promotional single was released in 2006 featuring two separate remixes, the instrumental of those remixes and the a cappella.
It is a reggaeton song taking influence from hip hop. Becoming a success in the Latin market, the song reached number thirteen on the Billboard Latin Songs chart, number twelve on the Billboard Tropical Airplay chart and number nine on the Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay chart. It was also included on Queen's first extended play (EP) entitled e5. Ivy Queen also performed the song as a part of the set of her 2008 World Tour which was held from the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum known as the Coliseum of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Following the failed commercial success of Queen's first two studio albums, Queen was dropped from the Sony label and took a hiatus from her musical career in 1999. Returning to the music industry with her third studio album, Diva, which was highly anticipated and acclaimed and later recognized as a factor in reggaeton's mainstream exposure in 2004 along with Daddy Yankee's Barrio Fino and Tego Calderon's El Enemy de los Guasíbiri, after being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. She then began working on her fourth studio album Real. It too was a commercial success, to a lesser extent, despite initially being Queen's debut full-length English-language studio album. She then embarked on the "Reggaeton Tour 2004" which also featured other artist including Aldo Ranks and La Factoria in various South American countries including Ecuador where she performed songs such as "Papi Te Quiero" and "Tu No Puedes" in promotion of the album. This was her first tour in South America which began in 2004 and lead into 2005.