As Fangoria we did a remix and this remix triumphed again in Spain. Meanwhile, Alaska had this to say in a 2013 Vanity Fair interview: “ Macarena triumphed in Spain in 1993. Decades later, Fangoria’s question continues to be the one they’d rather not discuss.
“When Macarena hit the big time, everyone wanted to get on board, ”says Ruiz. They demanded money and took the case to the courts as far as Strasbourg. “Īnother remix was made in the 1990s by the Spanish duo Fangoria, made up of Alaska and Nacho Canut, before the song’s American success. We just hope she is doing well in Venezuela because she and her family are a delight.
We think it’s great that she took advantage of what happened that day to open her own dance school and land a role in a soap opera. Far from hiding his identity, we have been very open on this subject. “But since I have a daughter named Esperanza Macarena, I decided to change Magdalena into Macarena.”Īccording to Ruiz, “she Did very well because, being our muse, she was able to tell everyone that she is the real Macarena.
” The young lady started dancing and I said to her: ‘ Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Magdalena, que tu cuerpo es pa ‘darle alegría y cosa buena‘- put joy in your body Magdalena, for your body is made to receive joy and good things.’ That’s what inspired me to write it, ”says Romero. dancer named Diana Patricia Cubillán Herrera. The catchy words came to Romero when he and Ruiz were invited to a party in late 1992 by businessman Gustavo Cisneros in Caracas, Venezuela, where they rubbed shoulders with then-Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, and a local flamenco. While this is the anniversary of the song’s remix, it’s worth remembering that the original was released on the duo’s 1993 album. What we need to do now is live and have fun. We are always asked when we will dial another Macarena, to which we reply that we have already done so. Just as Spain has only won the World Cup once, luckily we were able to be world champions when it comes to music. As Romero points out, “Becoming number one on five continents is extremely difficult. Not that at 73, it ruffles their feathers. The duo had other successes in Spain like Seville has a special color or You noted in the mirada, but outside of Spain they are considered unique wonders. It was the greatest sacrifice we could make. Basically because it was the only thing that gave us money that could help our mothers. It wasn’t until the death of our fathers that we said to ourselves, “We have no choice but to take this music seriously. We started at 14 and being young we played both song and bullfighting. “We never panicked because at that point we already had a 30-year career and had to face a lot of difficulties. Maybe it all got out of hand? “Not at all,” Romero said. Among other surrealist achievements, the duo performed it on Januat the Super Bowl in front of a live audience of over 70,000 spectators and tens of millions of home viewers. A quarter of a century ago Macarena was performed at the Democratic National Convention with Hillary Clinton applauding it was also used by the US women’s gymnastics team at the Atlanta Olympics. Speaking only a few words of English and with the internet still in its infancy, Los Del Río has revolutionized the world’s largest and most competitive music market with its dance song. However, no one can claim that what these two Seville city friends of Dos Hermanas achieved was phenomenal. But the Bayside Boys’ dance remix, which incorporated vocals females in English, remained atop the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks that summer, and remained in the charts for 66 weeks.Īs the world’s most influential music barometer, it was an incredible feat for middle-aged crooners, surpassed only in 2017 by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee who enlisted Justin Bieber to collaborate on a Spanish version of Despacito, which topped the US charts for 16 weeks, a record. The original flamenco hit by the Seville duo known as Los del Río – composed of Antonio Romero and Rafael Ruiz – had already soared in Spain in 1993. In 1996 the whole world was swept away by Macarena Madness.
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