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"Viva la Vida" (/ ˈ v iː v ə l ə ˈ v iː d ə /, Spanish: [ˈbiβa la ˈβiða]; Spanish for 'long live life' or 'live life') [4] [5] [6] is a song by British rock band Coldplay. It was written by all members of the band for their fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008).
Abridged version played before a football game at RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C., in 2011. In 1866, at the initiative of doctor Francisco Dueñas, who at the time was President of the Republic, the first national anthem of El Salvador was created by Cuban doctor Tomás M. Muñoz, who wrote the lyrics, and Salvadoran musician Rafael Orozco, who composed the music.
The song "Gracias a la vida" was considered as a "humanist hymn" by Chilean music journalist Marisol García. [4] In 2009 the former president Michelle Bachelet expressed her "affection and admiration" for Mercedes Sosa and "Gracias a la vida" with the following phrase: «As you know today, "Gracias a la vida" is a song of ours, but also a universal one.
La Vida es Sueño: Life Is a Dream: 1962: Huberman, Edward & Elizabeth: Spanish Drama, ed. Angel Flores: prose; reprinted as Great Spanish Plays in English Translation (1991) ISBN 0-486-26898-5: La Vida es Sueño: Life is a Dream: 1963: Alpern, Hymen: Three Classic Spanish Plays: El gran teatro del mundo: The Great Stage of the World: 1964 ...
Ars longa, vita brevis is a Latin translation of an aphorism coming originally from Greek. It roughly translates to "skillfulness takes time and life is short". The aphorism quotes the first two lines of the Aphorisms by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates: "Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή".
Vida, Marco Girolamo. The Christiad: A Latin-English Edition. Edited and translated by Gertrude C. Drake and Clarence A. Forbes. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-8093-0814-2; Vida, Marco Girolamo. Christiad. Translated by James Gardner. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, no. 39, ed. James Hankins.
Alaska y Dinarama's music video features a performance of the song for the television show La Bola de Cristal, which was hosted by Alaska herself. The performance was filmed by Televisión Española at its studios in Prado del Rey, and was first aired on the show on 29 November 1986 as part of a concert by the band. [3]
"Viva la vida" is a Spanish phrase, translated to English as "long live life". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Lyrically, the album contains references to love, life, death and war. Recording sessions for the album took place from November 2006 to April 2008 and featured production by Jon Hopkins , Rik Simpson , Markus Dravs , and Brian Eno .