"Bachata en Fukuoka" (English: "Bachata in Fukuoka") is the first single released by

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for his album ''

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''. It reached No. 1 on the ''

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'' chart in 2010, the second

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song in the year to do so.

Background

"Bachata en Fukuoka" is based on Guerra's experience during his trip to

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, Japan, where he was performing for the local people and was impressed by the fact that the locals could sing and dance to bachata, merengue, and

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. He wrote the song while there.

Music video

In the video, directed by

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, a piece of paper drops mysteriously in front of an elderly Japanese woman walking on a city sidewalk. She picks it up, immediately recognizes it (a drawing of a

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shell), and promptly boards a bus heading out of the city to the beach. While on board, she reverts to being a young woman, then decides to disembark the slow-moving bus and travel to the beach by bicycle. When she finally arrives at the beach, she finds a familiar young man standing in the center of the same spiral pattern from the paper, drawn in large scale on the sand, and they begin to dance passionately together, first on the ground and later while floating through the air. At the end of the video, both the woman and her dance partner have reverted to their old age, but continue to dance on the beach.

Chart performance

''Bachata en Fukuoka'' reached No. 1 during the week of June 5, 2010, displacing Diego Torres's song, "

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". ''Bachata en Fukuoka'' was the second bachata song to reach No. 1 during 2010, after Aventura's "

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References

External links

Bachata en Fukuoka Entrevista a Juan Luis Guerra
2010 singles Spanish-language songs Juan Luis Guerra songs Bachata songs Songs written by Juan Luis Guerra Music videos directed by Simon Brand Capitol Latin singles Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song 2010 songs Japan in non-Japanese culture {{Latin-song-stub