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Edgar Ricardo Arjona Morales (born January 19, 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo arˈxona]), is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter and former basketball player and school teacher. Arjona is one of the most successful Latin American artists of all time, with more than 20 million albums sold. He is often called El Animal Nocturno (The Nocturnal Animal), thanks to his breakthrough success with his fourth studio album which bears the same name. His music ranges from ballads to Latin pop, rock, pop rock, Cuban music, and more recently [[a cappella] performances and a mixture of Tejano music and Norteño music, and other Afro-American and Latin sounds. Arjona is noted for his lyrical style, and often addresses topics such as love, sexuality, violence, racism and immigration.
As of 2014, Arjona had released fourteen studio albums, one live album, nine compilation albums and forty-three singles. His work earned him numerous awards and accolades, including one Grammy Award, one Latin Grammy Award, and a "Latin Trajectory of the Year" Award at the Orgullosamente Latino Awards of 2010.