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RBD
Dulce María, Maite Perroni, Alfonso Herrera, Christopher Uckermann, Anahí and Christian Chávez.
Background information
Origin	Mexico City, Mexico
Genre(s)	Latin Pop, Teen Pop, Pop, Pop/Rock
Years active	2004–present
Label(s)	EMI / Virgin Records / Capitol Records
Website	Official Site
Members
Anahí - vocals, tambourine Dulce María - vocals, guitar Maite Perroni - vocals Alfonso Herrera - vocals Christian Chávez- vocals Christopher Uckermann - vocals

RBD is a Latin Grammy nominated Mexican pop group that gained popularity from Televisa's teenage-oriented telenovela Rebelde. RBD has sold over 20 million albums worldwide in almost four years of career.

Rebelde is a Mexican novela (soap opera), produced by Televisa, starring the members of RBD. It is a remake of an Argentine telenovela 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 with my hand, please!" 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 is RBD's sitcom made by Televisa about their fictional lives in the group. RBD and its producer, Pedro Damián, has 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 and Gonzalo 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.

RBD debuted in December 2004 with the album Rebelde, released through EMI. The main writersand producers for the project were Carlos Lara (aka D.J. 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.^[1] 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).

In October of 2005 came their second studio album, Nuestro Amor, produced by Carlos Lara 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 produced by Carlos Lara, which peaked at number 6 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums Chart. Not long after, in May 2006, they 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 composed 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.

Several months after the release of Live In Hollywood, in November 2006, they released their third studio album Celestial produced and directed by Carlos Lara 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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5].

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.^[6] 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.^[7] 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" alongside 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.^[8]

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 produced again by Carlos Lara and Armando Avila which is set for release on November 20, and that the first single "Inalcanzable" from the songwriter Carlos Lara and maybe the best song of all their albums 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. According to Anahi, the second single will have a video that was originally to be filmed in Spain, but due to time constrains the video will be shot in Mexico by the same director that shot Inalcanzable. On the 11th of April the group won an award in the Latin Billboards Awards 2008 called "El Premio Tu Mundo", which is fan awarded. In April 21st, RBD played to their biggest audience ever in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, on a concert in celebration of the city's 48th birthday. The estimated audience was of over 500,000 fans.^[9]On April 23rd, it was stated that RBD was the first artist to have 6 different albums among the Top 10 records in Slovenia in the same weekend.^[10] On May 12th, RBD premiered their new music video with the Chilean music group, Kudai and Lola called "Estar Bien" (Be Well). The song is apart of a campaign for awareness of obesity, anorexia, bulimia, and for being well, happy, and getting active. The video shows the singers on a tour bus singing around the City of Mexico while citizens do various stretches and cardiovascular exercises. In June 05th, RBD announced that the third single from Empezar Desde Cero would be "Y No Puedo Olvidarte" ^[11]The single was chosen and a video is scheduled to be made soon. They also announced the release of a special edition for Empezar Desde Cero, "Empezar Desde Cero Fan Edition", which will come with 3 bonus tracks ("Tal Vez Mañana", "Te Daria Todo" and "Estar Bien"), a DVD with the videos from their "Empezar Desde Cero", singles, and karaoke. ^[12]

Main article: RBD discography

Tour Generación RBD 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).

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. The final outcome for the tour was over 23 million in only 37 shows list^[13].

Tour Celestial 2007 is RBD's third tour where they'll be performing in America and Europe and South and Central America.

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.^[14]

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.

The Empezar Desde Cero Tour began in Hildalgo, United States, on February 2008, at the Dodge Arena. In late 2007, their Celestial Tour 2007 in U.S.A was re-scheduled for late February 2008, and became part of their new tour, Empezar Desde Cero Tour. La Nueva Banda Timbiriche was their opening act in the U.S.A. The tour took place in the 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. RBD performed in Brazil for over 500,000 people, breaking the Rolling Stones's record. In September, they will do 2 concerts in Slovenia, and the first concert was sold out in only 30 minutes, and the second in only 10 minutes.

In early 2008 Pedro Damián gave interviews for the Brazilian Rebelde magazine and stated that the first RBD motion picture was currently in the works; however nothing else has been heard about the film since then. ^[15]. Meanwhile, Alfonso shot a solo movie, called "Volverte a Ver", which has no official Release Date or Title in the U.S. He is working on a television series during the summer of 2008. Maite is staring in her first leading role on a telenovela titled "Cuidado con el Ángel" that premiered on June 9th, 2008 in Mexico. Dulce will begin shooting a film titled "Una Vez Mas" in which where her character falls in love with a man twenty years older than her at the end of summer of 2008.

Main article: RBD awards and nominations

• Official Site
• RBD at MySpace
• English Fansite (RBD Rocks!)

• Brazilian Fan Club (RBD Sin Limites!)
• Bolivian Fan Club (RBD Bolivia)
• Spanish Fan Club (RBD Spain)
• Serbian Fan Club (RBD Serbia Fan Club)
• Romanian Fan Club (RBD Romania)
• Romanian Fan Club (RBD Romania)