Latino singer ENRIQUE IGLESIAS is of dual heritage his father is the Spanish singing legend Julio Iglesias and his mother the Manila-born Filipina journalist/socialite Isabel Preysler. What was the song Bailando almost titled Is Enrique half Filipino 3. For vocal jazz oriented high school and beyond. The Bailando song title translates to Rhythmic Dancing in Spanish.
A true 'performance piece' and favorite in the repertoire of Swedish vocal giants The Real Group, Gota has quickly gained recognition world wide. "Gota" - The music line and wordless vocal jazz treatment fuses with ethnic folk music in a truly original way. "O Sapo" - In this irresistible Brazilian song setting, vocal lines imitate percussion patterns to create a truly infectious groove. This arrangement by Greg Jaspere id bound to get everybody swingin' along. A video for that song just completed filming in the Dominican Republic."Soul Bossa Nova" is not for the faint of heart! The Quincy Jones instrumental used in the Austin Powers' movies has been adapted to an a cappella vocal setting that really cooks and will totally wow your audience! Bailando is the gerund of the Spanish word, "bailar" which means to dance, move rhythmically to music, as well as to skip or bounce in a dance-like manner. Bueno, who has lived in Miami since 2000 and travels regularly to Havana, where he is a star in his own right, is in talks with with Universal Music Latin about recording a new solo album, a follow up to his 2012 EMI release “Bueno.”Ī bilingual version of “Bailando,” with Iglesias singing in English and featuring Sean Paul, has been released to radio stations. Members of the Buena Vista Social Club have been the only other artists residing in Cuba under Castro to appear on the Billboard Latin charts, with Gente de Zona’s participation in “Bailando” marking a first for a contemporary Cuban resident featured on a track at the top of Hot Latin Songs. The Bueno/Gente de Zona version of the song reached No. The new Iglesias video, also directed by Alejandro Perez in the Dominican Republic and featuring the Cuban artists and the flamenco dancers, has over 27 million views on Youtube. The song was revised and recorded by Iglesias with Bueno and Gente de Zona, and another hit for Iglesias was born. “Suddenly I got a call from Enrique Iglesias,” Otero recalls. The video quickly became popular on Youtube, where Iglesias saw it after a friend - not knowing it was the superstar’s song - told him it was a great video that he should watch. Director Alejandro Perez filmed a video for the song, featuring a flamenco troupe dancing in the streets of Havana.
“The song exploded in Cuba,” Javier Otero, Gente de Zona’s manager told Billboard. According to Bueno, Iglesias had not shown immediate interest in recording it after he and Bueno came up with the basics of “Bailando” during a writing session. Collaborators Bueno and Gente de Zona did their own version of the song in 2013.
1 is the second recorded version of the song. 2 spot, selling 5,000 copies for the May 17 chart date, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 1 on Top Latin Albums on Apand is currently in its sixth week at the No. “Bailando” comes off of Iglesias’ latest album “Sex & Love”, which debuted at No. Since then, he has ruled with smashes like “Enamorado Por Primera Vez” (12 weeks in 1997), “Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)” (11 weeks in 2007), and “Cuando Me Enamoro” (17 weeks in 2010), among a slew of others. The track spent eight weeks at the peak, and was only the start of his illustrious chart history. Iglesias has been placing hit after hit at the top of the chart for 19 years, logging his first when he was only 19 years old with “Si Tu Te Vas”. 1s on the Latin Airplay chart, also claiming the record for the most to reach the top. On Latin Airplay the track bounds 13-5, stretching to 9.5 million audience impressions (a 37 percent increase), according to Nielsen BDS.