Song of the Day - La Tortura - Shakira, Alejandro Sanz

I don't think you need to know Spanish to figure out how today's song is pertinent.  Here's a live performance from Shakira and Alejandro Sanz...

Oh, me duele tonto!

Song of the Day - Waka Waka - Shakira

I caught the Super Bowl Halftime Show a day late and despite all of the hullabaloo, I quite enjoyed it.  I forgot how much I love Shakira!  Here's one of my favorites...

Hump Day Song of the Day - Ojos Asi - Shakira

I was listening to Shakira yesterday and knew I would play one of her songs today because they're all fiery and well-suited for Hump Day.  This one, sung in Spanish, is one of my favorite songs of hers.  It blends her own unique Colombiana-style with a hot hot Middle Eastern one and the results are, pardon the pun, hip-shakingly wonderful.  Here's Ojos Asi (Eyes Like Yours)...

Song of the Day - Waka Waka - Shakira

Greetings from Albany, New York.  I am currently chaperoning a group of Hispanic students from Long Island who are attending the Annual Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute, a wonderful program founded by Angelo De Toro, New York State's first Latino representative in New York State government.  Every year, Hispanic students from all over New York get together for a weekend of leadership activities designed to help these kids learn to be leaders of tomorrow.   The theme of this year's conference is social activism through art and the kids did an awesome job last night on their own artistic expressions, which brings me to Shakira's Waka Waka.  Some of the performances that the students wrote and performed reminded me of this song and video.  Check out Waka Waka...

Song of the Day - La Tortura - Shakira, Alejandro Sanz

Ay amor me duele tanto

Me duele tanto

Que te fueras sin decir a donde

Ay amor, fue una tortura perderte

Oh my love, it hurts me so

It hurts me so

That you went without telling me where

Oh my love, it was torture losing you

I heard this classic duet the other night at Posh Bar in New York City and ooh, I immediately remembered how good it was...one of my favorite Spanish language songs ever!  Here's an awesome live performance of the sultry, yet sad song featuring two legends.  Check out La Tortura...

Song of the Day - Waka Waka - Shakira

Today's your day

I feel it

You paved the way

Believe it

If you get down get up oh oh

When you get down get up eh eh

Tsamina mina zangalewa

This time for Africa

One of my favorite songs of all time reached a huge milestone the other day, and I mean huge. On Monday, Shakira's theme song for the 2010 World Cup, Waka Waka, reached the exclusive milestone of one billion page views on YouTube, putting the Colombian singer in company with Adele's Hello, Psy's Gangnam Style, Justin Bieber's Baby, and Wiz Khalifa's See You Again (The Citizen).  The uplifting and fun song brings me back to my Saturday nights at Splash a few years back, and so this news gets a resounding YES from me.  Check out Waka Waka... 

Tsamina mina eh eh

Waka waka eh eh

Tsamina mina zangalewa

Anawa aa

Metro Lyrics

Summer Jam Song of the Day - Waka Waka - Shakira

Here's a great summer jam for your Wednesday.  I remember this one from my days at Splash...such a happy song!  Oh so danceable, too!  Here's Shakira's Waka Waka...