The powerful music platform Spotify indicates, with precise figures, that the most listened to song by the emblematic Argentine group Soda Stereo is light music. Now, almost by accident, it came to light that said melody was composed in Mexico.
But before giving details about how it was born, it is necessary to state that such a composition has 302 million 69 thousand 444 reproductions, confirming what everyone has been saying for a long time, that such a piece is the anthem of the band.
The countries they like the most light music
Now, thanks to Google Trends, we can measure the global impact of light music. According to this measurement tool we know that the song is most searched first in Argentina, then in Uruguay, followed by the countries Chile, Paraguay, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Panama, Nicaragua and Mexico in the position 12.
Once the cultural impact of this composition has been confirmed, we can continue with the story.
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This is how it was born light music by Soda Stereo
light music It was the first single from the album. Animal Song, the band’s fifth studio album. The first chords of the song emerged in 1989, inside the Calafia Bullring in Mexicali, during a rehearsal prior to a concert that Soda Stereo would give at said venue.
The valuable piece of information, which emerged almost by accident as already mentioned, came out during a conversation Zeta Bosiobassist of the band, with the creator of the sounds of soda Stereo, Adrian Tavernathis within a video recorded for the channel Soda Stereo Rock Hall.
At the beginning of the conversation, Zeta made a mistake by commenting that those first chords of the song had emerged in Morelia, but Adrián intervened, as if to refresh his memory, that it had been in the capital of Baja California.
“That day they improvised until they achieved the sound”
The above happened during rehearsals, which Gustavo and the other members of Soda Stereo liked to record so that no ideas would slip away.
“That historic day during the general rehearsal at Calafia they were improvising until they managed to obtain the sound and rhythm that resulted in what is the current version of Música Ligera. I captured everything and it was captured in my publication in the newspaper La Voz de la Frontera, no one told me, like other Mexicans, I was there,” remembers journalist Rockaz.
It’s been decades since light music He was born in Calafia and many years after Cerati died. Even so, those chords and those lyrics continue to live in the heads of millions of human beings, and will remain so until the end of their lives.