Song has reached No. 1 on Lat radio in US
Multi-platinum Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra collaborates with award-winning artist John Legend for a powerful bilingual celebration of “Tacones Rojos,” a song that has already enchanted multi-millions of hearts around the globe, reaching No. 1 on Latin radio in the US. The song is from his multi-platinum new album Dharma, which is also the current No. 1 streamed Latin album on Spotify released this year. In a fun music video filmed in Los Angeles, Yatra greets the neighbor played by Legend, of his new love interest after a special night on the town. Legend invites him in for coffee to talk about the girl in the red high heels, tacones rojos.
“’Tacones Rojos’ has such a beautiful sunny vibe. It’s about meeting someone new who brings love, light and wonder into your life” Legend shares. “I love that energy and that we were able to create something new together for this lovely song.”
“It has the happiness of the original, but for me, it’s a brand new song. It sounds like it was born this way. It was meant to be with John’s voice on it with me,” Yatra adds.
The viral smash, which ranked in TikTok’s Top 10 in the US and globally is rising on Spotify’s Top 50 Global, with more than 500 million streams and proving the hitmaker’s strength for making feel-good music, an outlier in an otherwise Reggaeton-dominated Latin genre.
“It was already such an amazing track but this was the first time I’ve tried to translate a Spanish song into English,” Legend states. “It’s not as simple as a word for word conversion. You have to translate the sentiment, but re-shape and massage the language flows so that it flows naturally and feels like an original song in English. That was my challenge and I had so much fun doing it.”
“Creating this version with John has been so beautiful,” Yatra shares, “he’s one of the most talented musicians. When you hear his voice, you know it’s him and it resonates. To have him sing a song that I wrote, these melodies and this message of love, it just makes me so happy and gives me a lot of professional and personal satisfaction.”
This weekend, Yatra will also perform at the Oscar-nominated song “Dos Oruguitas” (“Two Caterpillars”) from The Walt Disney animated film Encanto on the 94th Academy Awards.
