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"Pedro Navaja" (English: Peter Blade) is a salsa song written and performed by Rubén Blades from the 1978 collaboration with Willie Colón, Siembra, about a criminal of the same name. [1] Navaja means "folding knife" in Spanish. Inspired by the song "Mack the Knife", [2] it tells the story of a panderer's life and presumed death
An accompanying music video was filmed and features the artist sitting in a dark room with female violinists and celloists playing. [6] An editor for Latin Style magazine wrote that both "Déjate Querer" and "Que Alguien Me Diga" are "certainly on their way to becoming the favorites from this CD". [7]
"Yo Contra Ti" (Spanish pronunciation: [ʝo kontɾa ti]; English: "Me Against You") is a song by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee featuring the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra. It was composed for a breast cancer campaign in partnership with foundations Susan G. Komen Puerto Rico and J. Walter Thompson.
The song is about a young man who enters a nightclub while singing and dancing. In addition to the original Spanish version, the song exists in a form with Spanglish verses, although the nonsensical chorus is identical in both versions. "The Ketchup Song" was released on 10 June 2002 and became an international hit the same year.
"Matador" or "El matador" (Spanish for "Killer") is a song written by Flavio Cianciarulo, bass player of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, a rock band from Argentina. It was first released in their 1993 album Vasos Vacíos and it is considered their signature song since the song topped the charts all across Hispanic America.
The song was released in 1999 as part of the soundtrack to the film Wild Wild West (1999) and later included on Iglesias's fourth and debut English-language album, Enrique (1999). "Bailamos" reached number one on the Spanish Singles Chart and on the US Billboard Hot 100 , and it became a top-three hit in Canada, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway ...
"Clavado en un Bar" (English: "Stuck in a Bar") is a song by Mexican band Maná from their fifth studio album, Sueños Líquidos (1997). The song was written by the band's lead vocalist Fher Olvera, who handled the production alongside drummer Alex González and Benny Faccone. It was released as the album's lead single on 5 September 1997.
Cucurrucucú paloma" (Spanish for Coo-coo dove) is a Mexican huapango-style song written by Tomás Méndez in 1954. [1] The title is an onomatopeic reference to the characteristic call of the mourning dove, which is evoked in the refrain. The lyrics allude to love sickness.