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"La Maza" was written by Cuban composer and musician Silvio Rodriguez in 1979, and first released by him in 1982 as a part of his fifth studio album Unicornio. [2] [3] Mercedes Sosa performed the song together with Shakira in May 2008, [4] before releasing a studio recording of the duet on her thirty-second studio album Cantora 1 on 27 March 2009, [5] and on the double album Cantora, un Viaje ...
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.. He is widely considered as Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. [1]
The band had almost no personnel changes outside of the replacement of singer Leo Vera by Michel Maza and the addition of Danny Lozada as a third lead singer. This incarnation of La Charanga produced four historically important timba records. [3] By 1997, La Charanga was banned by the state for its “vulgar” lyrics and risqué stage show. [4]
"Toneladas" is a piano ballad, [3] and only the second song of the album that Shakira started to work on after "La Bicicleta". [4] It was released alongside the album El Dorado on 26 May 2017 and is the closing track on the album. [3] Lyrically the song is about Shakira being happy with "toneladas masivas de amor”" ("massive tons of love"). [5]
Haydée Mercedes "La Negra" Sosa (Latin American Spanish: [meɾˈseðes ˈsosa]; 9 July 1935 [1] – 4 October 2009) was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the region.
The score and lyrics of "El manisero" were by Moises Simons (1889–1945), [5] the Cuban son of a Spanish musician. It sold over a million copies of sheet music for E.B. Marks Inc., earning $100,000 in royalties for Simons by 1943. [6] [7] Its success led to a 'rumba craze' in the US and Europe which lasted through the 1940s. The consequences ...
For her work in La Comedia Musical Española Mendiola received a Premios Revelación in the television category, at a gala organized by the Vanity nightclub. María José Cantudo , who had met Mendiola in the Fernando García de la Vega series, invited her to be part of the cast of the musical show, "Doña Mariquita de mi Corazón", authentic ...
This cover radically changed the lyrics to fit the theme of the show, making numerous references to construction, repairs and roadway maintenance, as well as the show's characters. The women's names from Bega's version are also replaced with types of construction supplies and building tasks, e.g., timber, saw, waterproofing and tiling.