In a backstage interview with Univision Musica at the Premios lo Nuestro in 2014, Iglesias stated that when Bueno presented the song to him, he did not like it and want to record it, however loved it after recording, and now considers the track one of his favourites from the album. “Bailando” was finished in 2013 by Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona without Iglesias’ vocals, and was not released as a single. The original Spanish version of the track features Cuban artists Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona, while the English/Spanglish version features Jamaican singer Sean Paul. But perhaps it was something no one was doing at the time.“Bailando” is a track released by Spanish artist Enrique Iglesias for his tenth studio album: “Sex and Love”, released in 2014. We used a harmony that doesn’t belong to anyone.
“In fact, there are a lot of similar songs that went after that same energy. “The song still sounds current,” says Bueno. As it was, Universal Music Latin and Interscope made the track into one of the biggest global hits of the decade anyway. Had “Bailando” been released even two years later, it would likely have benefited from the augmented streaming universe that served “Despacito” in its path to Hot 100 immortality. He was good at taking songs that were not in English them sound great.” Aided by the Sean Paul remix, “Bailando” rose to No. Iglesias then called Sean Paul for a new bilingual version of the song, “Because I knew he would get it. Iglesias played them “Bailando.” “And Monty said, ‘Translate that s–t,’” Iglesias recalls. Soon after, Iglesias met with Republic Records chairman/CEO Monte Lipman and Charlie Walk (at the time EVP of Republic), who asked him for a new single. He and Bueno re-recorded the track yet again, this time with Gente de Zona in the mix. “This is when you realize that a song that makes you feel like there’s lightning in a bottle is extremely difficult, and all the stars have to align,” muses Iglesias. Bueno released his version of the song with Gente de Zona, and Iglesias eventually heard it.
How Enrique Iglesias' 'Bailando' Became a Hit. They put their mojo into the track, including the bridge: “Yo quiero estar contigo, bailar contigo.” The pair even sent it out to other acts, and it languished until the singer-songwriter, who lived in Miami, went to his native Cuba and connected with Gente de Zona - at the time the most popular group on the island. Bueno brought him the track, which he had begun to pen in 2009, and the two finessed it and added to it - but Iglesias wasn’t fully convinced. Iglesias wrote “Bailando” with Bueno, his frequent collaborator, in one of many writing sessions the two had in Iglesias’ house. At a time when Cuban-based artists had long been absent from the Billboard charts, “Bailando” brought them back, with a vengeance in 2014 Gente de Zona became the first Cuban-based act to ever top Billboard’s airplay charts after they were featured on “Bailando,” which they co-wrote.ĭespite the results, “Bailando” coming together as it did was a musical accident that nearly never happened.
If “Despacito” broke ground with its mix of Latin reggaeton and pop, rapping and singing, “Bailando” opened the door to that possibility, marrying Iglesias’ up-tempo melodic fare with Descemer Bueno’s singer/songwriter vibe and, the coup de grace, the urban beats and gritty vocals of Cuban duo Gente de Zona. “And I remember thinking, ‘F–k, this is the reason I started to do this, and this is the reason I’ve been at it for a bunch of years.’ It’s weird to describe. It excited me,” Enrique tells Billboard today. “I remember ‘Bailando’ making me feel exactly like I felt when I released my first album.
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