- Si Te Vas
Infobox Single
Name = Si Te Vas
Artist =Shakira
from Album =¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?
B-side =
Released = 1999
Format =
Recorded =
Genre =Rock en español
Length = 3:31 (album version)
Label = Sony
Writer = Shakira, Luis Fernando Ochoa
Producer = Shakira, Luis Fernando Ochoa
Chart position = * #74 (USA Hot 100 )
** #9 (Hot Latin Tracks )
Last single = "No Creo "
(1999)
This single = "Si Te Vas"
(1999)
Next single = "Ojos Así "
(1999)"Si Te Vas" (English: "If You Leave") is a song written and performed by
Colombia nsinger-songwriter Shakira . The song was released as a single from her multi-platinumalbum "¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? " (1998 ), beingSpain one of the countries in which this song succeeded notably. The song expresses how a female is being replaced by another girl and how she is hurt, and her willingness to move on with her life.No music video was filmed, so it was released only as a radio single. The song is also found on Shakira's live albums 'MTV Unplugged','Live and Off the Record' and 'Oral Fixation Tour'. It is also included on her first greatest hits album Grandes Éxitos.
Shakira has performed the song during all of her tours, making it one of her signature songs.
There is also an unrelated "Si Te Vas" by
Paloma San Basilio , which is sung in Spanish to the same melody asVicky Leandros 's 1972Eurovision Song Contest -winning song,Apres Toi .
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