Hay Amores

Infobox Single
Name = Hay Amores
Artist = Shakira
from Album = Love in the Time of Cholera (EP)
Released = November 13th, 2007
Format = Digital Download
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Soundtrack
Length = 3:28
Label = Epic Records, New line
Writer = Shakira (music and lyrics), Antonio Pinto (music)
Producer = Antonio Pinto
Last single = "Si Tu No Vuelves"
(2007)
This single = "Hay Amores"
(2008)
Next single = TBA
(2008/ 2009)

"Hay Amores" (English: "There Are Loves") is a single written and performed by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira and Brazilian Composer Antonio Pinto for the movie "Love in the Time of Cholera".

ong Information

The song is one of the two songs Shakira composed for the movie. [ [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-culture17nov17,1,7408232.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-entnews&ctrack=1&cset=true Shakira in pause mode - Los Angeles Times ] ] [ [http://www.myspace.com/litc_film MySpace.com - Love In The Time of Cholera - On DVD March 18th - 51 - Garçon - Cartagena, Bolívar - www.myspace.com/litc_film ] ] [ [http://www.newlinerecords.com/pages/cholera/cholera.htm New Line Records: Love In The Time Of Cholera ] ]

On his own initiative, García Márquez convinced Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shakira, who hails from the nearby city of Barranquilla, to provide two songs for the film. The songs were written with Brazilian composer Antonio Pinto. The full score was composed by Pinto, who also scored "City of God (film)" and "Lord of War".

She repeats the tune in a low sensual voice that fluctuates dramatically with melisma and falsetto: "Ay, mi bien, ta-ri-ri-da-da-ra, la-di di da di di da. . . . And it just started to come out of me like that, a spontaneous reaction. So I felt it was my duty, almost a moral one, to be involved with this project."

That snippet turned into "Hay Amores," a bolero full of romance, poetry and yearning. It's a style that dates to the late 1800s, matching the movie's era, and was popularized throughout Latin America in the 1940s and '50s by guitar trios such as Los Panchos and Los Tres Reyes, whose surviving member was invited to play on the recording, available on iTunes and soon on the soundtrack.

"The bolero is in my blood," says Shakira. "And it's undoubtedly the pinnacle of romantic music. Nothing can capture the sentiment of love like a bolero does, and nothing else could do justice to this story." [ [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-culture17nov17,1,3685208.story?ctrack=2&cset=true Shakira in pause mode - Los Angeles Times ] ]

The "Love in the Time of Cholera EP" and full soundtrack were released exclusively on iTunes on November 13, 2007.

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