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The album consists of twelve of Roxette's ballads and downtempo tracks, translated into Spanish by songwriter Luis Gomez Escolar, of whom very little is known. [1] Escolar's translations have been criticised by both fans and media for being poorly representative of the original English lyrics, as well as for being overly-simplistic and juvenile.
Latin ballad (Spanish: balada romántica) is a sentimental ballad derived from bolero that originated in the early 1960s in Los Angeles, California and Southern California. Some of the best known artists of the Latin ballad are Julio Iglesias , Mocedades , José Luis Rodriguez , Luis Miguel , Camilo Sesto , Emmanuel , Nino Bravo , Roberto ...
A romancero is a collection of Spanish romances, a type of folk ballad (sung narrative). The romancero is the entire corpus of such ballads. As a distinct body of literature they borrow themes such as war, honour, aristocracy and heroism from epic poetry, especially the medieval cantar de gesta and chivalric romance, and they often have a pretense of historicity.
According to the Billboard electronic database, the first was "La Guirnalda" by Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986. [3] However, in the listings included in the first printed publication of the chart on October 4, 1986, the first number-one song was " Yo No Sé Qué Me Pasó " by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel . [ 1 ]
The corrido (Spanish pronunciation: ) is a famous narrative metrical tale and poetry that forms a ballad. The songs often feature topics such as oppression, history, daily life for criminals, the vaquero lifestyle, and other socially relevant themes. [1]
The epic forms trace back to the cantares de gesta (the Spanish equivalent of the French chansons de geste) and the lyric forms to the Provençal pastorela. In the Spanish Golden Age , however, which is when the term came into wide use, romance was not understood to be a metrical form, but a type of narration, that could be written in various ...
Amor (Great Love Songs in Spanish) is an album by Eydie Gorme & The Trio Los Panchos. It was produced by Pete Rosaly and released in 1964 on the Columbia Records label. The album spent 22 weeks on the charts and included the hit single "Sabor a Mi". It was the best-selling album in Gorme's career. [1] [2]
The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.First published in 1928, it is composed of eighteen romances with subjects like the night, death, the sky, and the moon.