I hear complaints that Bad Bunny doesn't sing in the King's English. [View all]
But is that really the problem? Is it because no one wants to hear an artist sing in Spanish?
There was a plane crash in an Iowa field 67 years ago this week. Killed along with Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and JR Richardson was rock icon Richie Valens.
Valens had the hit record "La Bamba", the first song written and sung in Spanish to chart in the US. It reached #22 and found its way to corner jukes from coast to coast. ...In Spanish,
Los Lobos remade the song in the '80s for the Lou Diamond Phillips movie La Bamba and it went straight to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there. People still love that song.
Valens' version was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of 500 songs that were influential in shaping rock and roll.
How is Bad Bunny different?
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