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Although he began his career in architecture and engineering, he graduated from the School of Communication Sciences of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC). He assures that he studied the career only because he had been bad in front of his parents after having renounced for basketball to a scholarship in one of the best private universities in Guatemala.
However, despite never having exercised the race, it did arouse some interest in himArjona was a talented basketball player who played for Leones de Marte and TRIAS. As a member of the Guatemalan national team, he toured Central America. Until recently, he held the record for the Guatemalan player with the most points (78) scored in a single basketball game. Before recording his first album and while he was in college, , He was a schoolteacher just like his father.

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He is a musical singer-songwriter, arranger and music producer of Guatemalan origin born on January 19, 1964.

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His musical style varies from ballads to Latin pop, rock, pop rock, Cuban music, among others. He has sold over 20 million copies of records throughout his career. He is considered one of the most successful artists in Latin America.

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At the age of 21, Ricardo Arjona has the opportunity to materialize his lifelong dream thanks to his first album, entitled Let me say that I love you.

Unfortunately this recording and its result are such an unsatisfactory experience that they decide to leave the world of professional music.
After this, for five years he oriented his life to the realization of very diverse activities: he works as a teacher, studies the career of advertising and plays basketball, becoming a holder of the official selection of his country.

But music is still a passion that Ricardo cannot forget and decides to try again to succeed in the song with the release of his second album, SOS rescátame. From that moment he did not leave the recording studios and continued to edit all his compositions.

His next work Jesus: Non-substantive verb becomes the great success he has been waiting for since the beginning of his career and means his definitive consolidation as a composer and singer. In addition, the spectacular sales figures achieved by this album in the Latin music market make it the best-selling in history in the countries of Central America.
In the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he meets Leslie Torres with whom he had two children: Ricardo and Adria. They then separated in 2002.

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At the age of 8 Ricardo is already a precocious musician who plays the guitar very well. He continues studying and goes through a stage of rebellious adolescence that leads him to have problems in school, but he never leaves aside his musical training, the only thing he really likes.
Although he initially enrolled in Architecture and Engineering courses, he graduated from the School of Communication Sciences of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC).

At USAC there is a room named after him in the Library building. There is also a street in Jocotenango, Antigua Guatemala.

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The next stage in the artist's career would take place in Mexico. There he moved to compose the main theme of "Alcanzar una Estrella", a highly successful telenovela that made Ricardo Arjona known internationally, not only as a composer and performer, but also as an actor. In that country, he achieved several important successes, both as a performer and composer, such as "La Mujer Que No Soñé" and "Sólo Una Mujer".

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His next album, "Historias", was a memorable work in which the genius of Ricardo Arjona, as composer and performer, reached his fullness. The album reached 2 million copies sold and, among others, contained the songs "Señora de las 4 Decades" and "Te conozco". "If the North Were the South" continued the line of its predecessor with equal repercussion on the public.