Which are the most popular Spanish Songs Ever ?

Question

Contribute by giving your 2 most favourite singers name from each spanish speaking country that you know of and not more than 10 of your favourite song names. If possible, please give the full lyrics. I want to know because I am very interested in Spanish songs. My favourite are Shakira and Enrique whose many songs I know and can sing too. My favourite songs are 'Moscas en la casa" "estoy aqui", "ojos asi", "esperanza", "Desnudo", "Alguin como tu" Thanks in Advance.

• Hola ! Estoy de vuelta ! Thanks for the contributions from all of you guys. Please keep more coming. Based on the suggestions and some songs I heard on the profiles of the members, my singer and song list has got greatly enhanced. - Vijay Aug 30, 2009
• I have heard Luis Miguel, Miguel Bose', Luis Fonsi, Barbara Munios, Il Divo, Tizziano Ferro, Mana' and many more. I can now sing more than 100 Spanish songs by Heart. Thanks - Vijay Aug 30, 2009
• I looooove Barbara Munoz, Mienteme is an awesome song!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - LAtINaPunKRO Aug 30, 2009
• Only 5 votes? - TheSilentHer May 2, 2010

Answer 1

Celia Cruz : La Vida es Carnival - check it out on YouTube
<http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=lArGoRhFr4E>
and Elvis Crispo: Besame

Answer 2

The movie is also called 'Cuesta abajo'. Here is a colourised clip. He also sings 'Mi Buenos Aires querido' in that movie and I think 'Amores de estudiante'.

I was referring to my first sentence 'more like English than mine'.

Answer 3

got it! Su traducion es mas como el Ingles que la mia. Yes, mas como que. I have only heard Amores de Estudiante by El Trio Los Panchos. Thanks for the clip. I have a lot of searching to do. I am on a quest for beautiful lyrics...there's no better way to find new, creative expressions than to look into the past. Other than coming up with them ourselves, of course.

Answer 4

Millie, keep looking for Ernesto ''''''? I know he has to be famous, but don't even know what country he was from. I would remember the song if I heard it again.

Answer 5

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=OHPRLpF799E&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=OHPRLpF799E&feature=related[/url]
Isabel Pantoja
Asi Fue

Answer 6

Thank you. I will have to track down El Trio Los Panchos version of 'Amores de Estudiante'. I found a track list online for their album 'Serie De Coleccion: 16 Autenticos Exitos' and all the tracks seem to be songs by Gardel. It is striking how much the music of Gardel is still well regarded through the Spanish speaking world and not just among Argentines. Gardel died in 1935. Penelope Cruz sings a flamenco version of his song 'Volver' in the Almodavar movie of that name (at least I assume it's her voice). It's rather good. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=gQpmznpR99U&feature=related]Here[/url] is Gardel himself singing it. I can't remember which movie it's in; he always seems to end up going back to Buenos Aires. Here is a big Gardel fan site in spanish.

Answer 7

Mi cantante favorita es Susana Baca. Es de Peru. Si no conoce esta cantante, yo recomiendo totalmente!

Answer 8

Most mentioned so far are "here today, gone tomorrow". How about something proven like Maurice Ravel's Boléro or Agustín Lara's Granada. The hair stand up on my back when I hear this kind of music.

Answer 9

Yes, 'Granada' is a fine piece. Thank you for making me look up Lara on Wikipedia; now I want to hunt up some of his other songs. However, at least as 'Granada' is commonly performed, it does not seem representative of Spanish or Latin American music. Certainly Ravel's 'Bolero' is not exactly a spanish song; it is a wonderful piece of instrumental music by a French composer. Bizet's 'Carmen' is another example of a wonderful classical piece inspired by Spain. These attempts to translate the feel of Spain or Spanish music into classical idiom are very fine but I fear there is also much that is lost in the translation.

Answer 10

I agree completely, as Ravel's Bolero is expressive of a certain sentiment, so Lara's music is like any other composer's, he relates his own experiences. His Granada is his own and has been interpreted by many artists. He has several tango's and boleros that do relate a Spanish man's revelation of what it is to love, However, his artistic interpretation is quite singular and authentic, as Ravel's Bolero was unique to him, and Gardel's and so on. I am so glad that music, composers and lyrics are available to us so that we may interpret our own feeling through them, whether in our own cultural experience, or not. Ahora, en el mismo tema, Olga Guillot is a Cuban singer who has interpreted, divinely, these themes as a singer, not a composer. There are various You Tube videos of Lara singing his own music, do look at them Unfortunately, I am in the stone ages as far as the computer is concerned, todavia no lo domino! I hope to figure out how to download onto this forum some very old video I have copied onto the DVD medium. The best that we can do, besides create, is identify some of these pieces and bring them to life in today's world.

Answer 11

A MI TAMBIEN ME ENCANTA LA MUSICA DE SHAKIRA Y ENRIQUE IGLESIAS E IGUALMENTE ME GUSTA MUCHO SU CANCION DE "MOSCAS EN LA CASA" (ES MUY NOSTALGICA), Y DE ENRIQUE IGLESIAS TAMBIEN ME GUSTAN MUCHAS COMO "COSAS DE LA VIDA" Y "SOLO ME IMPORTAS TU"

Answer 12

Dan said
"Bizet's 'Carmen' is another example of a wonderful classical piece inspired by Spain.".

The Italian Rossini's 'Barber of Seville' is nothing to be sneezed at either.
I guess this conversation is getting to be really off topic.

Answer 13

Thanks for keeping us on track.. And the topic is...? Before we get back on track, take a side trip to this place http://www.mariafelix.com.mx/vida.html Oh yes, spanish lyrics. Still working on that.

Answer 14

Lo que me qusta de la musica de Shakira es que ella combina la musica arabe en sus producciones.

Answer 15

Sigo Intentando- Marta Sánchez (Spain)
Cuéntame al oído- La Oreja de Van Gogh