Lento (Julieta Venegas song)
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"Lento" is the second single from the third album by Mexican singer Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas Percevault , known professionally as Julieta Venegas, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer, who sings pop-rock in Spanish. She speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish fluently. She has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer...

, called
Si
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Song information

The song was written by Coti Sorokin and Julieta Venegas. Julieta plays the accordion, drum machine and keyboards on the track. It made the Billboard
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chart, and reached positions 31 and 13 on the Hot Latin Songs
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 and Latin Pop Airplay
Latin Pop Airplay
Latin Pop Airplay is a record chart published on Billboard magazine. It features Latin music information from pop music usually in Spanish. It was established by the magazine on October 8, 1994 with Mañana by Cristian Castro being the first song to reach number-one...

 respectively.
Julieta performed a new version on piano
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 for her MTV Unplugged
MTV Unplugged (Julieta Venegas album)
- DVD :- Personnel :* Gustavo Borner: Recording engineer, mixing, mastering. Mixed at: Igloo Music * Juan Pablo Falluca: Movil recording* Juan Carlos Ertze: Recording ssistant* Gabriel Castanon: Recording assistant...

 in 2008.
Erika Martins brazilian
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 singer performed a cover
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 of this song in Portuguese in 2009, and sings a few bars of the song in Spanish position in the lists of popularity in Brazil
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.

Live preformand

The performance of the MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica 2004
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 in Miami, Florida
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 does duet with the group Hip-Hop mexican
Mexico
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 Cartel de Santa
Cartel de Santa
Cartel de Santa is a Mexican band from the "barrio de la Aurora", Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. The band started playing in 1996 as part of the Avanzada Regia musical movement and is currently composed of Eduardo Davalos de Luna, also known as MC Babo , MC Dharius, Rowan Rabia and DJ Agustín...

 in a hip-hop version, singing and playing her accordion and vocalist of the band rapping to Juliet.

Music video

The music video
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 was filmed in Japan
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, and featured her twin
TWINS
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 sister Ivonne.

The video begins with Julieta Venegas walking the streets of Japan and following her sister Yvonne. The two are dressed in the same clothes and have the same hairstyle (except that Yvonne has shorter hair). Animated flowers and plants begin to grow each time Julieta goes through a street and on anything she touches. The video ends with the sisters playing a crane game.

Official versions

  1. "Lento (Mijangos Bootleg Mix)" — 4:51
  2. "Lento (Portugués)" featuring Érika Martins — 4:00
  3. "Lento (MTV Unplugged)" — 4:26

Charts

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Mexican Airplay Chart 1
Spain (PROMUSICAE
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)
2
US Hot Latin Songs
Hot Latin Songs
Hot Latin Songs is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. It is often recognized as the most important music chart for Spanish language Latin music in the American music market. It was established by the magazine on September 6, 1986 with La Guirnalda by Rocío Dúrcal being the first song...

 (Billboard
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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...

)
31
US Latin Pop Airplay
Latin Pop Airplay
Latin Pop Airplay is a record chart published on Billboard magazine. It features Latin music information from pop music usually in Spanish. It was established by the magazine on October 8, 1994 with Mañana by Cristian Castro being the first song to reach number-one...

 (Billboard
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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...

)
13
Venezuela Singles Chart 9
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