Trampa de Amor
Studio album by Los Tinellers
Released	1995
Recorded	1995
Genre	Bachata
Length	45:48
Label	Elca Productions & Rincón Musical
Los Tinellers chronology
Trampa de Amor (1995) Generation Next (1999)

Trampa de Amor (English: Love Trap) is the original first album by the bachata music group Aventura, when they use to call themselves Los Tinellers (Los Teenagers).^[1] It was named after the song with the same name.^[2] It was released under Elca Productions & Rincón Musical. Seven of the ten tracks are the original versions of some of the group's songs.^[3] One of the songs, "Por Tu Orgullo (Because Of Your Pride)", was added to God's Project. The other six were added to Generation Next. These seven songs were added to these two albums with each of them being more modern remakes. The other 3 tracks were never put in other albums nor ever had a re-make.

Background

The group met Elvin Polanco during the 1995 Bronx Dominican parade. Polanco was the coordinator of that parade at the time so Anthony and Lenny approached him to ask if he could give them a chance to perform on stage for the parade. Polanco gave them the chance and was so impressed with their performance that he decided to become their manager to help the group in their pursuit of a music career. Polanco spend a few month trying to find an investor. He met Carlos Dalmasi, who was the leader of Dominican merengue group Los Paymasi. He help out trying to find an investor, but was also unsuccessful. This led to Polanco to use $5,000 dollars out of his savings, which he was originally going to use to buy his mother a property the Dominican Republic, to invest in at least record two to three songs. This would also lead to Dalmasi and Polanco to create their own independent record label called Elca Productions. The name came from the first two letters of their first names, Elvin and Carlos.

With the money to start making the first three songs, Polanco worked with Dominican bachata musician Nelson Herrera, who was working with Polanco at the time, as he asked him to help him create songs for the group. Later on, Polanco and Dalmasi made more money from other artist they were working with and along with Herrera made seven other songs, thus completing the creation of the album. Polanco said in an interview that he had spent a total of $11,000 to $12,000 dollars. The album was titled Trampa de Amor, because Polanco thought it was a beautiful name. The band wanted the album to be called Cuando Volveras, which later on became their debut single, to be the title, but Polanco thought his choice was better and the group at the end agreed.^[4]

Album cover

The album cover only featured Romeo and Lenny. This is because Henry and Mikey were late to the photo session due to getting stuck in train traffic. Elvin Polanco, who was in charge of the group at the time, mentioned this in an interview. He also mentioned that since the photo session was too expensive for them at the time, they did not have more money to pay the photographer for an extra hour. So he decided to only have the two members that were there. The other members agreed with the decision to release the production with only Romeo and Lenny on the cover because they were on the rush to release the album and the fact that they could not afford another photo session. Henry and Mikey were members of the group regardless of the album cover situation.^[5]

Track listing

References

External links

• Aventura official site
• Album Page From Buena Musica