You can of course listen to a song in a foreign language and never get the lyrics. (His grandfather had been kidnapped by the Basque ETA.) See his English Wiki-bio HERE. At age 11, he was sent to live Miami for security reasons. For the Wiki-bio in Spanish click HERE.Įnrique Iglesias (Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler) was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1975. Nicky Jam (Nick Rivera Caminero) was born in Boston MA, USA in 1981, but moved to Puerto Rico at the age of ten. The official Spanish YouTube video has had over 650 million views at this time. ' El Perdón' became a smash hit upon its release in 2015. Now listen to a much more recent song, ' El Perdón,' co-written and co-performed by Nicky Jam and Enrique Iglesias, both popular singers in the Latin pop scene. In one of our first posts on learning a foreign language with a song, we chose La Paloma, a song which originated in 1861 in Cuba. Listening to Spanish songs, first with the lyrics, and then without, is a great way to absorb words, phrases, and even grammatical structures. Posted on Novemby Ulrike Rettig 'El Perdón' – Learning Spanish With a Song
