¿Cómo te va mi amor? is a song written by Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga is a Nicaraguan singer and music composer. He was born in Managua but lived his childhood and adolescence in Masaya.-Career:...

, and first made famous by Mexican group Pandora

Pandora (musical group)

Pandora is a female Mexican singing trio.The original line-up consisted of sisters Isabel Lascurain and Mayte Lascurain and their cousin Fernanda Meade...

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Background

Pandora made their professional debut on 2 June 1985, on the TV program "Siempre en Domingo" (Always on Sunday), where they interpreted the song "¿Cómo te va mi amor?", from the Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

n composer Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga is a Nicaraguan singer and music composer. He was born in Managua but lived his childhood and adolescence in Masaya.-Career:...

. Less than a week later their first production in LP format was released, simply titled "Pandora", which by October of the same year had gone gold.

"¿Cómo te va mi amor?" was included in that debut album and defined the group's romantic style. This song was the first single to be promoted by the group and their first super hit, instantly Pandora got a wonderful welcoming inside the musical world.

Pandora's original version was nominated for the Grammy in 1987 in "Latin Pop

Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album

The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album was awarded from 1984 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop Performance*From 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album...

" category. At the end of 2007, the song was included on the VH1

VH1

VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

 Latin America

VH1 Latin America

VH1 Latin America is a music channel from Viacom-owned MTV Networks Latin America. The network was launched in April 2004 exclusively on Cablevisión D.F. in Mexico, and in the rest of the region some months later. The channel targets audience from 19 to 44 years old and plays local and...

 chanel countdown of the 100 Best Songs of the 80's in Spanish at number 16.

Since Pandora's success with the song, many other artists have made cover versions, extending in this way the importance of this melody into the musical romantic world. Among the singers that have interpreted the song are: Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga is a Nicaraguan singer and music composer. He was born in Managua but lived his childhood and adolescence in Masaya.-Career:...

 himself (live), Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri is a Mexican singer. He is widely known only by the name Luis Miguel and is often referred to as "El Sol de México"...

 and Pandora

Pandora (musical group)

Pandora is a female Mexican singing trio.The original line-up consisted of sisters Isabel Lascurain and Mayte Lascurain and their cousin Fernanda Meade...

 (together alive), Los Horóscopos de Durango

Los Horoscopos de Durango

Los Horóscopos de Durango is one of the longest recording groups in the Regional Mexican genre performing Duranguense banda.This successful group was started by Dn. Armando Terrazas in Chicago during 1975...

, Patricia Manterola

Patricia Manterola

Patricia Manterola is a Mexican singer, actress, model, and fashion designer born in Mexico City.-Background:...

, Nicho Hinojosa, Fher Manjarrez, Área 305, Freddy y Los Nobles, La Rondalla de Saltillo, Chicos De Barrio, Tierra Canela, Myriam, Marcos Orozco y Rebelde, Secuencia con Banda, and others.

The 2006's versión by Los Horóscopos de Durango was nominated for the 2008 Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Latin Music Award in the category "Regional Mexican Airplay Song of the Year, Female Group or Female Solo Artist".

On 16 May 2008, the version by Los Horóscopos de Durango, which sold more than one million copies during 2007, won the Latin Award 2007 Best Regional Song delivered by The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP), the main American composers society. The song's composer, Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga

Hernaldo Zúñiga is a Nicaraguan singer and music composer. He was born in Managua but lived his childhood and adolescence in Masaya.-Career:...

, received a tribute during the ceremony. This song released for the first time in 1985, still awarded in 2008 (23 years later), has demonstrated that was composed to surpass the barrier of the years and even those of the musical genres.