No Controles is a song originally written by Nacho Cano

Nacho Cano

Ignacio Cano Andrés, aka Nacho Cano, is a Spanish arranger, composer, musician and record producer. He studied solfège and was one of the members of the Spanish group Mecano along with his brother José María Cano and Ana Torroja.He has released 4 solo albums, including Vivimos siempre juntos with...

, a member of the Spanish band Mecano

Mecano

Mecano was a Spanish pop band whose debut coincided with La Movida Madrileña , a sociocultural movement that occurred in Madrid, Spain during the 1980s...

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The song was first made popular in Spain

Spain

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 and Europe

Europe

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 in 1983 by the band Olé Olé, with Vicky Larraz on vocals.

In Latin America

Latin America

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, particularly in Mexico

Mexico

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, the song was made popular by the band Flans

Flans

Flans was an all female Mexican pop music group, which enjoyed popularity from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. Its members were the singers Ivonne Margarita Guevara García, Ilse María Olivo Schweinfurth and Irma Angélica Hernández Ochoa...

 in 1985, Nacho Cano gave them the song because they were good friends. It was later made popular by Mexico's Café Tacuba on their album of covers Avalancha de Éxitos

Avalancha de Éxitos

Avalancha de Éxitos was Café Tacuba's third album. In 1996, two years after their acclaimed Re, the band had amassed enough new music to fill four CDs, but couldn't winnow it down to a single album...

 at 1996.

Recently the song has been featured in the musical Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar

Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar

Hoy no me puedo levantar is a Spanish musical, with music and lyrics by Nacho Cano, former member of the band Mecano. Based on 32 of the band's greatest hits and named after their first single, the musical centers on a pair of impoverished musicians trying to be part of La Movida Madrileña, after...

 also created by Nacho Cano.

It was also sang by Edurne

Edurne

Edurne García Almagro better known as Edurne is a Spanish pop singer. She came sixth in the fourth edition of the Spanish television series Operación Triunfo in 2005.She is the girlfriend of Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea.-Discography:...

in the TV Show Los Más de La Fiesta in Antena 3.

Paty Manterola a Mexican singer/actress also has sang the song (2006).

The song translates as 'don't control' in English, referring to a series of life choices that could possibly be controlled such as 'mi forma de pensar...vestir' the way I think or dress.