"Viviré" ("I Will Live") is a song by Dominican Republic singer-songwriter
Juan Luis Guerra released as the second single for his album ''
Fogaraté
''Fogaraté!'' is the seventh album of the famous Dominican songwriter and musician Juan Luis Guerra. It was released on July 19, 1994. The album mixed a variety of music genres including rural and flolklroic rots of merengue called " Perico Ripao" ...
'' (1994).
It is a Spanish-language adaptation of "Vivi" by Congolese musician
Papa Wemba
Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba (14 June 1949 – 24 April 2016), known professionally as Papa Wemba (), was a Congolese singer and musician who played Congolese rumba, soukous, and ndombolo. Dubbed the "King of Rumba Rock", he was one of the ...
with Guerra writing the song in Spanish. It became his first song to reach number-one on the ''Billboard''
Latin Pop Airplay in 1994. At the
1995 Latin Billboard Music Awards
The 2nd annual ''Billboard'' Latin Music Awards which honor the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music took place in Miami.
Pop
Song of the year
* "Vida", La Mafia
Pop album of the year, Male
* Luis Miguel — '' Segundo Ro ...
, "Viviré" won Tropical/Salsa Song of the Year.
It was recognized as one best-performing Latin songs of the year at the 1996
BMI Latin Awards. The
music video for the song was directed by Gustavo Garzón and received a nomination for
Video of the Year at the
1995 Lo Nuestro Awards.
On the review of the album for the ''
Miami Herald
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'', Fernando Gonzalez called the song "the best of the lot". A writer for ''
Music & Media
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'' described the track as a Cuban
son
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Social issues
In pre-industrial societies and some current c ...
.
Track listing
# "Viviré" -
# "Canto de Hacha"
Charts
See also
*
List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Airplay songs of 1994
References
1994 songs
1994 singles
Juan Luis Guerra songs
Songs in Spanish
Songs written by Juan Luis Guerra
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