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"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 ...
4 time, this dance music spread to other countries, leaving behind what Ed Morales has called the "most popular lyric tradition in Latin America." [5] The Cuban bolero tradition originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century; [6] it does not owe its origin to the Spanish music and song of the same name. In the 19th ...
The latter also recorded the song in Spanish, English, French ("Où est passée ma bohême?"; Where Is My Bohemian?), Portuguese ("Inesquecivel boemia") and Italian ("Quando si ama davvero"). The recording by Jimmy Dorsey featured vocals by Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell [19] and was released by Decca Records as catalog number 3657.
This song was composed by Mexican songwriter Agustín Lara and originally performed by singer Ana María González and tenor José Mojica in the 1941 film Melodías de América. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After that, the original Spanish-language version was very popular in Mexico and Cuba as well as being recorded by many of the greatest Bolero interpreters ...
"Flores negras" ("Black Flowers") is a bolero song written and composed by Cuban musician Sergio De Karlo and published in 1937. [1] It was introduced by Mexican tenor Pedro Vargas in the 1937 film Los chicos de la prensa. [2] Vargas recorded it for RCA Victor.
Bolero is a Spanish dance in 3/4 time popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It originated from the seguidilla sometime between 1750 and 1772, [ 2 ] and it became very popular in Madrid, La Mancha, Andalusia and Murcia in the 1780s.
"Silencio" (Spanish for "silence") is a bolero written in 1932 by Puerto Rican musician and composer Rafael Hernández. [1] It has become a standard of the Latin music repertoire, with notable performances by artists such as Cuarteto Machín, Daniel Santos, Noro Morales and Ibrahim Ferrer.
In 1991, Mexican singer Luis Miguel covered "No Sé Tú" on his eighth studio album, Romance, a collection of boleros performed by the artist. [13] Released as the album's second single in February 1992 by WEA Latina, [14] it is one of two songs by Manzanero that Miguel covered in the album, along with "Te Extraño", as selected from among 500 others.