Que Me Quedes Tú
Encyclopedia
"Que Me Quedes Tú" is a soft-rock song written and performed by Colombian
singer-songwriter
Shakira
for her 2001 breakthrough English album
Laundry Service
. She released it as the only promotional single from the album. It was also included on her first Spanish greatest hits album, Grandes Éxitos
.
-speaking market.
Colombian people
Colombian people are from a multiethnic Spanish speaking nation in South America called Colombia. Colombians are predominantly Roman Catholic and are a mixture of Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians.-Demography:...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
for her 2001 breakthrough English album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
Laundry Service
Laundry Service
Some critics criticized the effectiveness of Shakira's lyrics, claiming that her English skills were too weak for her to write in that language, but nearly all agreed on her unique poetic imagery...
. She released it as the only promotional single from the album. It was also included on her first Spanish greatest hits album, Grandes Éxitos
Grandes Éxitos (Shakira album)
-Personnel:* Shakira - Producer, vocals, guitar* Emilio Estefan Jr. - Executive producer* Tim Mitchell — Compilation producer* Luis Fernando Ochoa — Producer, songwriter* Lester Mendez — Producer* Pablo Florez — Producer, songwriter* Javier Garza — Producer...
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Song information
"Que Me Quedes Tú" was written by Shakira and composed by her and longtime friend Luis Fernando Ochoa. It was released as a digital single in December 2002, reaching the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart, becoming very successful throughout the SpanishSpanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
-speaking market.
Charts
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Billboard (magazine) 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 Tropical/Salsa Airplay |
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