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Koji Kondo, composer at Nintendo, planned to use Boléro as the main theme for the first The Legend of Zelda video game, but reworked it into an original piece shortly before release due to copyright concerns. [45] Angélique Kidjo performed an adaptation of Bolero in the song "Lonlon" for her 2007 album Djin Djin.
"Bésame Mucho" (Spanish: [ˈbesame ˈmutʃo]; "Kiss Me A Lot") is a bolero song written in 1932 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez. [2] It is one of the most popular songs of the 20th century and one of the most important songs in the history of Latin music. It was recognized in 1999 as the most recorded and covered song in Spanish of ...
The bolero-son: long-time favourite dance music in Cuba, captured abroad under the misnomer 'rumba'. The bolero-mambo in which slow and beautiful lyrics were added to the sophisticated big-band arrangements of the mambo. The bolero-cha, 1950s derivative with a chachachá rhythm. The bachata, a Dominican derivative developed in the 1960s.
An accompanying music video for "No Sé Tú" was directed by Pedro Torres and filmed in Miami; it features Miguel and an orchestra performing in front of a building. [32] [33] The video premiered on 16 February on the Mexican variety show Siempre en Domingo. [14] At the 1993 annual Premios Eres, it won Best Video. [34]
The Bolero is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Allan Miller [2] and William Fertik. [3] It won an Oscar at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974 for Best Short Subject . [ 4 ]
Tito Guizar sang the song in the Roy Rogers film The Gay Ranchero (1948), while Ezio Pinza performed a version mixing Lara's and Gilbert's lyrics in Mr. Imperium (1951), with Lana Turner and the Guadalajara Trio. [21] Gene Autry sang the song in the film The Big Sombrero (1949). The song is used in soundtrack of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite.
In his early 1960s orchestra his group included Cuban dancer Martha Correa, who also played the maracas. In this period he also collaborated with mainstream American jazz artists. Notably, he invited jazz players Bob Brookmeyer , Al Cohn , Zoot Sims and Clark Terry to appear with him in performances at New York City's famed Birdland nightclub.
"Quiéreme mucho" is a criolla-bolero composed in 1911 by Gonzalo Roig with lyrics by Ramón Gollury and Agustín Rodríguez. The song was inspired by Roig's wife, Blanca Becerra, and premiered in Havana in 1911 without much success.