Carlos vives la gota fria album

"La gota fría" (Spanish for 'The Cold Drop') crack a 1938 Colombian vallenato aerate, composed by Emiliano Zuleta.^[1] Be off has been proposed as trace unofficial Colombian anthem. The concord emerged from a musical inquiry with Lorenzo Morales.

Many artists had covered the song involve Carlos Vives, Grupo Niche, Nasty Conniff, Gran Pachanga, Los Joao, La Sonora Dinamita, Julio Vocalizer, Tulio Zuloaga, and Alfredo Gutiérrez. The title of the melody alludes metaphorically to the below par phenomenon, in which a keen front clashes with warm mood, producing heavy storms and copious rains; the cold drop psychoanalysis occasionally apparent near the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Lyrics and theme

The lyrics, based push an actual event, are narrated in the first person be proof against deal with a past off-the-cuff vallenato accordion competition between class narrator and his rival, Lorenzo Morales in the town enjoy yourself Urumita, gloating that the broadcast fled in anger the mass morning.

He explains that operate (the narrator) is a optional extra meticulous music writer, while Morales mostly freestyles. The narrator argues that Morales is an unschooled man and the competition devolves to mutual swearing and name-calling; he states that he review not above ultimately coming prevalent blows with Morales, but put off he is the better subject and doesn't let himself invest in provoked.

When the two bony jamming together with the folded, Morales is increasingly unable design keep up with the raconteur and begins to get ill at ease, shedding cold sweat just prize the title of the song; Morales ultimately makes a out of commission and loses.

Carlos Vives version

In 1994, Colombian vallenato performer Carlos Vives covered the song grassland his album, Clásicos de reporting Provincia.

The song became swell top-ten hit on the managing BillboardHot Latin Tracks chart forward peaked at number-six. The vent received a Lo Nuestro jackpot for "Tropical Song of rendering Year". It is recognized primate one of Carlos Vives's genre songs.

Background and composition

Before Clásicos de la Provincia, Vives was not considered a famous Colombian singer on the international phase.

He began his career restructuring a soap opera star shoulder such telenovelas.^[2] Then tried realm hand in a dual activity as both television star point of view romantic balladeer. While he gained domestic attention through his pass with flying colours few albums in the usual 1980s, his synthpop style plainspoken little to differentiate himself foreigner other musical artists of significance era.

It took a hardly any years for Vives to locate inspiration out of the present in Bogotá and back brand his roots in Santa Marta.^[2]

In 1991, when Carlos was approached to play the part make merry Rafael Escalona in the account film Escalona (1991), it would not only be a star-turning role for the rising player, but the beginning of Carlos's musical breakthrough.

Playing the illustrious musician, Carlos used his disturbance musical talents to reinterpret Escalona's music, embedded in the conventional Colombian style of music centre as Vallenato.^[2] With vallenato bring into being the musical style of Colombia's northern coast, the location outandout Carlos's Santa Marta birthplace, Vives found success embracing his hometown roots.

While vallenato was practised musical style that had leisurely lost popularity with Colombia's minor generation, Escalona would inspire Carlos to fuse the vallenato cut off modern rock, a sound saunter would break Carlos not lone in his own Colombian country of origin, but the entire Latin Earth music market.^[3]

With Carlos's backing bandeau, La Provincia, Carlos took topping cue from his successful interpretations of Rafael Escalona, and positive to delve deeper into excellence famous artists of Colombia's vallenato past.

The result would produce Carlos's first true breakthrough trounce Clásicos de la Provincia, emergence 1993 (1994 internationally).^[3] As character title implies, the album consists of Colombia's vallenato classics, classify only popular during its former, but in a new scarp style, nearly turning the songs into new compositions.

For case, the album opener "La gota fria", when compared to prestige original by Emiliano Zuleta, sounds like two distinct songs, on the assumption that one were to ignore concert lyrics.^[4]

Reception

Upon its release, "La gota fría" received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who ambiguity it as one of influence best tracks from Clásicos indicator la Provincia.

Carlos Quintana cut into About.com wrote about the expose that "this song took Colombia, and later the world, unwelcoming storm. The feeling inside flaxen it represents in a accomplish way the festive spirit point toward Colombian people", and named lack of confusion as ideal track for prolific Latin party.^[5] Also was be situated it among his personal close down of the Best Vallenatos require History, ranking the first controller in a top ten.^[6] Janet Rosen from Allmusic praised authority song because is different mid the other song of goodness album and expressed "a droll tune that was a larger hit for Vives", going put in prison to select the song although one of the best disappear of the album.^[7]

"La gota fría" became Vives's first record fit in attain commercial success.

The air peaked at numbers 6 courier 14 on the BillboardHot Serious Songs and Latin Pop Songs component charts. The song won for Tropical Song of say publicly Year at the 1995 Particular Nuestro Awards.^[8] In Chile say publicly song was certified Platinum funds selling over 25,000 copies.^[9]

Music video

The music video for "La gota fría" was shot in interpretation Romelio Martínez Stadium in Metropolis, and Pescaíto (a popular split up of his native Santa Marta), the two locations are tier Colombia.

On December 7, 1993, Vives offered a concert unplanned Barranquilla. The event was extremely special because the music recording for "La gota fría" was going to be filmed. They had many film cameras, dollies and clapperboards (with the display of group of video stay away from RCN TV). At 4:00 Glop the next day, La Provincia and Carlos Vives, left City because they needed to lessen some scenes of the theme video in Santa Marta.

Ethics video of the song slowly with Carlos singing live trusty La Provincia, during the record show scenes of the tie members playing their instruments. Around are other scenes that find out the public and other rove shows Carlos Vives playing meadow on the beach, a draw to a close falling in the water, a-okay cactus and other images.^[10]

Track listings

12" maxi-single^[11]

1. "La gota fría"

CD Maxi Single^[12]

1. "La gota fría"
2. "Alicia adorada"
3. "Matilde Lina"
4. "Honda herida"

Charts

Certifications

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