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Pregón, a Spanish word meaning announcement or street-seller's cry, has a particular meaning in both Cuban music and Latin American music in general. It can be translated as a song based on a street-seller's cry or a street-seller's song ("canto de los vendedores ambulantes").
In the song's lyrics, originally written in Spanish creole, the singer wonders aloud what to do with a statue of Babalú Ayé, now that a Santería rite had been invoked by others. [1] He suggests that seventeen candles be lit up, in the shape of a cross , and that a cigar and aguardiente be brought to him, as to pay homage to the deity.
After performing a handful of songs, including “Read Your Mind,” “Vicious” and a cover of Olivia Newton John’s “Hopelessly Devoted to You” (from Grease), Carpenter ended her opening ...
The immediate emotional response to the saeta, often of intense sorrow, may be the reason for its name, as the Spanish word saeta can mean "arrow or dart". [ 11 ] [ 12 ] One of the places with the most tradition and variety in the singing of the flamenco saeta in Spain is Jerez de la Frontera .
"Las Mañanitas" Spanish pronunciation: [las maɲaˈnitas] is a traditional Mexican [1] birthday song written by Mexican composer Alfonso Esparza Oteo.It is popular in Mexico, usually sung early in the morning to awaken the birthday person, and especially as part of the custom of serenading women.
"Djadja" is a song by French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura, released on 6 April 2018, as the lead single off her second studio album Nakamura (2018). It reached number one in France, the Netherlands and Romania. The music video for the song was shot in Barcelona, Spain. In June 2020, she released a new remix featuring Maluma adding new lyrics in ...
"Dos Oruguitas" was the first song Miranda wrote completely in Spanish. This amount of Spanish was far outside his comfort zone. [3] [4] Miranda said, "It was important to me that I write it in Spanish, rather than write it in English and translate it, because you can always feel translation". [5]