Her breakout video as well as this Spanish version, also on heavy rotation here, further secured her association with that song by the dance-pop group 3rd Party.įiction became reality when this Taiwanese boy band took off from their fictional counterpart in the pioneering Asianovela Meteor Garden, which ABS-CBN has rerun, more than a decade after its widely received broadcast. JLo made "Waiting for Tonight" (not her original) her own launching pad, as her career skyrocketed in time for the millennium. Alt rock bands like Guster have recorded this tune, and it amazes grandparents today that not a few children have heard this song, whereas they might regard a group like Black Sabbath as an oldies band. But this quaint Yuletide ditty recorded by Augie Rios-the only major contribution to music by this 12-year-old (at the time) Hispanic-American-has since inspired several equally eccentric remakes, entirely in Spanish. " ❽onde Esta Santa Claus?" by Augie RiosĪll right, we're cheating a little with this "Spanglish" novelty number from 1959. Here are 10 songs keeping us in the loop of the entire planet.ġ0. It used to be said that the Philippines is in but not of Asia. Aside from the influence of el mundo hispanohablante (the Spanish-speaking world), the very region we live in has delighted us with their art-and with their pop.
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It's a complicated story to say the least, but it has also yielded many of our diversions that we still enjoy. Because much of our collective story is about foreign domination, after all.
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(SPOT.ph) We're sure there is a world of foreign-language songs beyond this list that won us over.