"No Controles" is a song written by

Nacho Cano Ignacio Cano Andrés (b. Madrid, 26 February 1963), better known as Nacho Cano, is a Spanish arranger, composer, musician and record producer. He and his brother showed an interest in music in their young lives. At 5, he began to play the Spani ...

, and recorded and released by the Spanish band Olé Olé in 1983. 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".

History

The song was first made popular in

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and

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

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, particularly in

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, the song was made popular by the band

Flans Flans are an all-female Mexican 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. The ...

in 1985. Nacho Cano gave them the song because they were good friends. Later made popular by child Venezuelan band Payasitas Nifu Nifa, on their album ''Las Payasitas Ni Fu Ni Fa'' in 1995. It was later made popular by Mexico's

Café Tacuba Café Tacvba (Pronounced ''kaˈfe taˈkuβa'') is a band from Ciudad Satélite, Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, before they had the current lineup of Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega (lead vocals, ...

on their album of covers ''

Avalancha de Éxitos Avalancha de Éxitos (in Spanish: ''Avalanche of Hits'') is 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. So ins ...

'' in 1996. Recently the song has been featured in the musical ''

Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar ''Hoy no me puedo levantar'' (''Today I Can't Get up'') is a Spanish jukebox musical, with music and lyrics by José María Cano and Nacho Cano, former members of the band Mecano. Based on 32 of the band's greatest hits and named after their fir ...

'' also created by Nacho Cano. It was also sung by

Edurne Edurne García Almagro (; born 22 December 1985) is a Spanish singer, actress, and television presenter. She rose to fame in late 2005 when she took part in the Spanish casting show ''Operación Triunfo'' on TVE and finished in sixth place in ...

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

In popular culture

The song appears in the 2018 video game,

Just cause 4 ''Just Cause 4'' is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Square Enix's European subsidiary. It is the fourth game in the ''Just Cause'' series and the sequel to 2015's ''Just Cause 3'' and was released f ...

as a song that can play on the in game radio.

References

Spanish-language songs 1983 songs 1983 singles {{1980s-pop-song-stub