Noelia Album: “Golpeando Fuerte”

Spanish female singer with a great voice. The songs are very rhythmic, exciting and sensual. Noelia can wonderfully let roll the "R". Her Spanish temperament is overtly expressed. My favorite songs are "Golpeando fuerte" (Strongly Struck), "Fuera" (Outside), "Me faltas tu" (I Need You), "Ni una Lagrima mas" (Not One More Tear) and "El Suspiro de un Angel" (The Sigh Of An Angel).

In this CD, Noelia takes advantage again of Mr. Estefano's talent to produce a coherent, well-designed work. The songs are extremely good! The best song on this CD is Con el Alma Abierta, a masterpiece of writing and melody. Noelia's voice in this song is mermerizing and at times plain hypnotic, and her performance of the lyrics is mature and solid beyond her years. The other songs I enjoyed are El suspiro de un Angel and Cera Derretida, written by Pablo Manavello, who produced 2 of Yolandita's (Noelia's mother) best CD's; Cara de Angel and Portfolio. At this point it is fair to say that yes, Noelia sounds at times hauntingly like Yolandita, but I think that in this CD she has finally found her own voice. And hey, she IS her mother's daughter. She HAS to sound a little bit like her!

This is most definitely her best work to date. The songs are catchy, very upbeat; some of them could be called modern classics. The only con with this wonderful album is the lack of a ballad with the beauty of 1999's "Tu"--though there are some exceptional ones to be had on this album