"Alegría" is a pop song by

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Ju ...

(from their show of the same name), which was recorded in 1994 with the voice of

Francesca Gagnon Francesca Gagnon (born August 6, 1957) is a Canadian singer and theatre actress featured in Cirque du Soleil's '' Alegría'' and ''Midnight Sun''. During her career of more than two decades, she has recorded several solo albums and toured three co ...

. The song is a multi-lingual adaptation (in English, Italian and Spanish) of another Cirque du Soleil song titled "Un pazzo gridar", written by

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and

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and featuring Italian-only lyrics. "Un pazzo gridar" is also a song from the show Alegría. In 1999, Cirque du Soleil recorded a new version of the song for their film "Alegría, the Film". This new version was also included in the soundtrack of the movie, and received a

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nomination for

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at the

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. In 2006, Cirque du Soleil recorded a new multi-lingual adaptation (in English, Portuguese and Spanish) titled "La nova alegría" for their arena show

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. This new adaptation was written by

, Robert Dillon,

, Paolo Ramos and Manuel Tadros.

Adaptations

"Alegría" was adapted in Hungarian by

Ibolya Oláh Ibolya Oláh (born 31 January 1978) is a Hungarian pop singer. She was the runner-up of the first series of Hungarian television singing competition series ''Megasztár''. Ibolya is of Romani ancestry. She was born in Nyíregyháza and grew ...

under the title " Magyarország" ("Hungary") and in Finnish by

Katri Helena Katri Helena Kalaoja (née Koistinen, born 17 August 1945) is a Finnish singer. Career Katri Helena released her first songs in 1963 and has since sold over 630,000 certified records, which makes her the second-best-selling female soloist ...

under the title "Minä toivon" ("I Hope").

References

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