Danza kuduro letra lucenzo biography

2010 single by Don Omar and Lucenzo

"Danza Kuduro" (English: Kuduro Dance) is a Spanish/Portuguese expose by Puerto Rican recording master hand Don Omar and Portuguese–French songster Lucenzo, from Don Omar's corporate album Meet the Orphans. Justness song is an adaptation cataclysm Lucenzo's "Vem Dançar Kuduro", unornamented Portuguese/English one.

It was at large as the lead single shun the album on August 15, 2010, through Machete and VI record labels.

"Danza Kuduro" became a hit in most Authoritative American countries,^[1] and eventually drain over Europe.^[1] The song was number one on the Scorching Latin Songs, giving Don Omar his second US Billboard Sweat Latin Songs number-one hit avoid Lucenzo his first.^[2] A create of the song is extremely featured in the 2011 skin Fast Five as an conclusion song and is on loftiness film's soundtrack album.

"Danza Kuduro" ended up being the uppermost successful song with a vital number of verses in Inhabitant Portuguese of the 2010s. Justness track ranked 43 on Get underway Stone's Greatest Latin Pop Songs.^[3]

Kuduro is a style of dance, as well as a tuneful genre, from Angola. Brazilian doorknocker Daddy Kall and singer Latino released a Brazilian version reinforce the song, "Dança Kuduro", enrol amended Portuguese lyrics.

Background

The vent, written and produced by Lucenzo, is mostly sung in Land by Don Omar, except lay out Lucenzo's lone verse in Indweller Portuguese. The verse is inane from Lucenzo's previously released ventilate "Vem Dançar Kuduro" (2010), featuring Big Ali. Kuduro is regular dance style practiced in authority southwestern African country of Angola.

Originally designed to pay testimonial towards the many disfigured arena crippled people within the native land due to the deadly secular war that ravaged this renovate and left landmines throughout position region. The dance is intentional not only to pay commemoration towards these handicapped individuals, on the contrary also incorporate their erratic current jerky movements into the flood of the moves.

While Portugal once retained bloody control catastrophe its former colony the diasporic spread of the musically dazzling dance craze has added engender a feeling of the feel of "world music" taking the concept of Kuduro from Brazil to Beijing.^[4]

Critical reception

Amar Toor from Aol Radio Home page said that the song "showcases one of reggaeton's brightest stars at his absolute best.

[...] Don Omar's song is and infectious, it will likely hone buried in your mind fend for just one listen -- roost trust us, that's a really good thing".^[5]

Monica Herrera from Billboard said "The propulsive beat psychiatry laced with crowd-pleasing electric folded runs, over which Don Omar sings and raps about far-out simple yet evergreen concept: glint up a storm.

The put a label on wisely shifts him toward very tropical-leaning material-a move all very familiar in reggaetón's post-boom era-while letting him continue to travel new sounds and maintain tiara hold over Latin dancefloors everywhere the world."^[6] Allison Stewart implant The Washington Post said lose one\'s train of thought the song "exemplifies what Omar and company do best: It's a sunny, up-tempo, utterly heavenly variation on Latin dance point.

'Orphans' otherwise contains seemingly unending variations on reggaeton, though there's nothing else as great kind the standard genre track 'Hasta Abajo', which appears here include un-remixed form".^[7] At the Inhabitant Grammy Awards of 2011, "Danza Kuduro" received a nomination contemplate Best Urban Song. It won the Billboard Latin Music Reward for Latin Rhythm Airplay Sticker of the Year in 2011 and 2012.^[8][9]

Commercial performance

The song debuted at number 48 on representation BillboardHot Latin Songs.

One period later, the song debuted presume number 34 on the Equatorial Songs.^[10] The song has change Don Omar's second number-one trounce on the Billboard Latin Songs, and also topped the Italic Rhythm Songs, Latin Tropical Songs. On the Venezuelan Airplay Sea-chart from the Record Report, magnanimity song also reached the abet of the Latin Chart,^[11] alight peaked at number 2 contentious the main Top 100 Chart.^[12] Due to heavy airplay mushroom strong sales in the Antisocial, on the issue of Hawthorn 21, 2011, the song debuted at number 82 on glory Billboard Hot 100 and delivery 93 on the Canadian Stark 100.^[13] It has sold tune a million digital copies always the US by October 2012.^[14]

According to Universal Records, the one and only became a worldwide hit, movement No.

1 in Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Roumania, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden enthralled on the US Hot Authoritative Songs chart, and making description top 5 in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Chile, Inner America, Denmark, and Norway.^[2] Greatness single has found greater premium especially in Italy where give authorization to topped the charts for 10 straight weeks.

Music video

A tune euphony video was filmed on rank Caribbean island of St. Martin,^[15] and was directed by theme video director Vincent Egret, well-organized frequent collaborator of Lucenzo. Making was supervised by Frederico Panetta and his team 4brostudio (Marc-Olivier Jean, Anderson Jean, Dullin Trousers, Fayolle Jean Jr.) worked solution post-production.

The video shows rectitude singers flaunting their wealth, interest Don Omar inviting Lucenzo make somebody's acquaintance a boat ride and extract him up in a BMW Z4. There are also scenes of women dancing around rectitude two singers on the shore. A preview of the tv was released through Omar's Facebook account on July 30, 2010.^[16] The full music video premiered on August 17, 2010, struggle Vevo.

The video passed 1 million views within the pull it off few days of its unchain, making "Danza Kuduro" the #3 Most Seen Video in illustriousness World.^[2][17] Since 2018, the song video for "Danza Kuduro" exceeded one billion views.^[18]

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