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Al Norte del Sur

album by Franco De Vita

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4704558 ↗
Source-derived summary

Al Norte del Sur (North of South) is a 1988 studio album by Franco De Vita, released on the CBS Records label. The album produced four hit singles: "Louis", "Te Amo", "Promesas", and "Esta Vez". All four singles reached the top 10 on the Billboard Latin music charts in the United States.

Track listing

All songs written by Franco De Vita.

Editorial summary

“Al Norte del Sur” enters the record as album by Franco De Vita. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Norte, album and Franco can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Norte, album and Franco.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Al Norte del Sur” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Norte, album and Franco provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4704558. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Al Norte del Sur”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Al Norte del Sur primary sources, Al Norte del Sur archive and Norte research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Al Norte del Sur”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Al Norte del Sur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.