Bendita tu luz
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| Single by Maná featuring Juan Luis Guerra | |||||||||||||
| from the album Amar es Combatir | |||||||||||||
| Released | November 7, 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download, Radio airplay | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | at The Hit Factory, Miami, Florida | ||||||||||||
| Genre | Latin pop, Bachata | ||||||||||||
| Length | 4:23 | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Fher Olvera & Sergio Vallín | ||||||||||||
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"Bendita Tu Luz" (Blessed (is) your light in English) is a bachata song, the second single released from Maná's seventh studio album, Amar es Combatir (2006). The song, which features Juan Luis Guerra on the vocals.
Chart success
Initially, the song proved to be less successful than its predecessor - "Labios Compartidos" - as it did not gain as much airplay as the latter. Nevertheless, the song reached the top spot of the chart for the week of November 16, 2006, being replaced on December 23 by the smash Ricky Martin hit "Tu Recuerdo". At this point, "Bendita Tu Luz" became Maná's third number-one single on the chart, and their second in a single year.
On January 13, 2007, the song regained its position at number-one ten weeks after its chart debut, which occurred on November 4, 2006. In Venezuela, the song peaked at #1 on the Record Report Top Latino chart.[1]
Music video
The music video tells the story of how two college sweethearts met. The young woman begins to gain interest in the young man as she sees him all over campus, and observes how he tries so hard to "impress her" or "tries to get her attention" by his goofy acts like bumping into her "on purpose" or "acting a fool with his friends". She thinks that's just his way of trying to get to her. When she sees that he's making no physical move to ask her out, she decides to be the one to do it instead. However, when she finally has the courage to talk to him she finds out that he's blind and that all his "stunts" weren't stunts at all but the real deal. The fact that he is blind doesn't stop her from still wanting to get to know him. The two soon become good friends and eventually their love blossoms. He shows her how life is for him by wrapping her eyes in a blind-fold; and she lets him get behind her car and drive it. Throughout the video Maná is playing in a small club with Juan Luis Guerra. At the end of the video the happy college couple go to the club and dance while Maná and Juan Luis Guerra sing "Bendita Tu Luz".
See also
- List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2006
- List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2007
References
- ↑ "Top Latino" (in Spanish). 2006-11-04. Archived from the original on 2006-11-04.
| Preceded by "Ser o Parecer" by RBD |
Number-one song (U.S. Hot Latin Tracks) (first run) December 16, 2006 |
Succeeded by "Tu Recuerdo" by Ricky Martin featuring La Mari |
| Preceded by "Tu Recuerdo" by Ricky Martin featuring La Mari |
Number-one song (U.S. Hot Latin Tracks) (second run) January 13, 2007 – January 27, 2007 |
Succeeded by "Sola" by Hector "El Father" |
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