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Color Esperanza
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Wikipedia article
"'Color Esperanza'" (English: Color of Hope) is the lead single from Diego Torres's fifth studio album 'Un Mundo Diferente'.
Lyrical content and background
The song's lyrics reflect on themes of hope and overcoming hard times in life and the song's uplifting beat reflects the lyrical themes. The song was written by Coti Sorokin along with Cachorro Lpez and Spanish journalist Paco Garca Caridad. The song was performed on MTV Unplugged featuring group La Chilinguita.
Special performance for the Pope John Paul II
In 2003, the song was performed specially by Torres for the Pope John Paul II in Cuatro Vientos Airport in Madrid, Spain by the festival of the Youth, in order to welcome the Pope.[http://www.mtvla.com/news/articles/1471704/20030505/story.jhtml Diego Torres le canta "Color Esperanza" al Papa] (in Spanish) MTVla.com
Music video
A music video for the song was directed by Nahuel Lerena and Eduardo Pinto with whom Torres has worked in previous videos.
With a simple plot, the video begins with Torres sleeping in a bed, where he later begins to dream and finds himself in a forest where the landscape is green with a beautiful lake where everything revolves around the song.
The music video was nominated for the video of the year on the MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamrica 2002.
'Cover versions'
*The song has been covered on several singing talent contests as are La Academia, Objetivo Fama, etc.
*Daniela Romo covered the song for her 2008 album Sueos de Cabaret.
*In 2013 several Spanish female singers covered the song for the project 'Por ellas', an initiative against breast cancer. Their version of 'Color esperanza' became a number one hit in Spain.
Charts
Certifications and sales
2020 version
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On May 18, 2020, Sony Music Latin and Global Citizen joined forces to release a new version of song to benefit the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new version featured several Latin American and Hispanic artists:
Lali, Coti and ngela Torres (Argentina); Thala, Camila's Mario Domm, Sin Bandera's Leonel Garca, Reik's Jess Navarro, Ro Roma and Carlos Rivera (Mexico); Camilo, Fonseca, Manuel Turizo, Jorge Villamizar and Carlos Vives (Colombia); Pedro Cap, Farruko, Kany Garca and Rauw Alejandro (Puerto Rico); Ivete Sangalo and Dilsinho (Brazil); Rubn Blades (Panama); Gente de Zona (Cuba); Mau y Ricky (Venezuela); El Cigala and Dani Martn (Spain); and Leslie Grace, Nicky Jam, Ara Malikian and Prince Royce (USA).
For the 2020 edition of Premios Juventud, the version was nominated for Best Quarantine Song or "The Quarentune", a special category that was created to honor the best songs born during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Following the success of this version of the song, Peruvian girl group Son Tntacion released a salsa cover featuring all female vocals mostly from Peruvian artists such as Maricarmen Marn and drag queen Chola Chabuca, and also Puerto Rican singer La India.[https://radiomar.pe/noticias/salsa/color-esperanza-version-salsa-son-tentacion-paula-arias-video-oficial-24828#1 Paula Arias reuni a las ex Son Tentacin en video versin salsa de Color esperanza]
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
*List of number-one singles of 2013 (Spain)
References
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