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El Día Que Me Quieras (song)

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Released
  
1994

Recorded
  
1994

Length
  
3:58

Format
  
Promo single

Genre
  
Latin

Label
  
WEA

El día que me quieras (English: The day that you love me) is a tango with music by Carlos Gardel and lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. Originally featured in the 1935 film of the same name, it became a heavily recorded tango standard, even by artists outside of the realm of tango. It has subsequently been covered by various artists such as Luis Miguel and Roberto Carlos. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

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Luis Miguel version

Mexican singer Luis Miguel recorded a cover version of the song, his Grammy Award-winning album Segundo Romance, in 1994. This single peaked at number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1994, one of the two songs along with La Media Vuelta from the album to do so.

Gloria Estefan version

Gloria Estefan has written and recorded the first-ever English translation of the song ("The Day You Say You Love Me") for her 2013 album The Standards. “It was the wedding song that Emilio and I danced to!” she relates. “I wanted to record it. It was never done in English, and I wanted it to be as close to the author's version as possible and I was so inspired. Before we started doing the record, I wrote the translation. It’s always nice when you can write a standard!” Some editions of Estefan's album also include a cover with the original Spanish lyrics.

References

El Día Que Me Quieras (song) Wikipedia