This year’s official World Cup song is a catchy song called ‘Hayya Hayya (Better together)’
The maestro Ennio Morricone, the versatile voice of Plácido Domingo, the Italian ‘rock star’ Giana Nannini, the rock and soul singer Daryl Hall, or even Shakira… . Do you remember the song of the World Cup in Spain in 1982? The title was the most original. It was called ‘El Mundial’ and it was sung by Plácido Domingo. It starts like this: «The sun lights up the stadium, Spain dresses up for a party, you see the fans on the field and wave flags restlessly. The stands are full, cheerful songs are playing and so the delighted people always applaud the best, the Mundiaaaal… ». Four years earlier, another illustrious had performed the music of Argentina 1978: the great composer Ennio Morricone, who died two years ago. With the Buenos Aires Municipal Symphony, the Italian conductor, author of some of the best soundtracks in film history, set music to that unforgettable ‘Mundial March’.
The official anthem for this year’s World Cup is a catchy song called ‘Hayya Hayya (Better together)’ and features three artists: Trinidad Cardona, an American rhythm and blues singer; Davido, an icon of Afrobeats; and the Qatari Aisha. When they put the video on YouTube, it has already been viewed 30 million times and the first footballer to appear is… Maradona.
These are the different songs of the World Cups:
The official ones performed in Russia four years ago were those performed by Polina Gagarina, Egor Creed and DJ Smash, the closest thing to a Eurovision song of any year and from any country. And yet another also sounded like ‘Live it up’ sung by Nicky Jam, Will Smith and Era Isterefi. Jason de Rulo and Maluma also prepared an unofficial song called ‘Colors’. In 2014, Jennifer López, Claudia Leitte and an ‘accredited’ music player like Pitbull were the ones who signed the most listened song in Brazil for a month. The song was called ‘We are one (Olé, Olá) and logically started with the rhythm of samba and batucada, which the host team did not practice with its huge hit. Shakira also made a song with Carlinhos Brown entitled Dare (La, la, la). But with the one that most triumphed Gerard Piqué’s ex-partner was undoubtedly the one that did not stop being heard in South Africa, the famous Waka Waka (This time for Africa, this is Africa). “The time has come, the walls are falling, the only fair battle is about to begin… now let’s go for everything, luck is with you…”.
The Colombian Shakira performs together with the Black Eyed Peas during the opening ceremony of this World Cup in Qatar. The ‘football fan’ Rod Stewart will not be there, who turned down an offer of more than a million dollars “on principle”. Rod Stewart, like Gun and Simple Minds, is a fan of Celtic.
The official song of the World Cup in Germany in 2006 bore the seal of Il Divo and Tony Braxton. It was called ‘The Time of Our Lives’. In South Korea-Japan 2002, the protagonists were Anastacia, Brown Eyes and Lena Park, in addition to the hymn composed by Vangelis. And in France 1998 another ‘hit’ stood out, Ricky Martin’s ‘La Copa de la vida’, although they also had the good taste to make a Youssou N’Dour song prominent. The song for the 1994 World Cup in the United States was called “Gloryland” by Daryl Hall and Sounds of Blackness, a soundtrack featuring “We are the champions” by Queen, “New stars” by Tears for fears, “This is the moment” by The Moody Blues, ‘Blow by blow’ by Fleetwood Mac, ‘Blaze of glory’ by Jon Bon Jovi, ‘The Best’ by Tina Turner, ‘Rock’n Roll 94’ by Gary Glitter, ‘Celebration’ by Kool & The Gang , ‘No pain, no gain’ by Scorpions, ‘Luz, amor y vida’ by Santana and even a version of ‘You’ll never walk alone’. Almost nothing about the device, right?
The 1990 World Cup in Italy opted for elegance and reserved the compelling song for the torn voice of the great Gianna Nannini – the one behind the famous song ‘Bello e impossible’ and sister of former Formula 1 driver Alessandro Nannini – together with singer-songwriter Edward Bennato. The theme was called ‘Un’estate italiana’ (An Italian summer) and was composed by Giorgio Moroder. It is considered the best song in World Cup history.
Four years earlier, in Mexico, they decided that the artist Juan Carlos Abara would sing ‘Mexico 86, the world united by a ball’. And in Chile 1962 was the first edition with an official song to the rhythm of the beginning rock of The Ramblers. ‘El rock del Mundial’ was called a lively theme that always invites you to move your hips. If you can hear it, don’t miss it: “Even if it’s defeat, we’ll dance rock ‘n’ roll.” In England they chose Lonnie Donegan in 1966, in Mexico in 1970 for Los Hermanos Zavala and in Germany in 1974 for Maryla Rodowicz.
Before we mention Maradona, the first to appear in the video of the song that will be repeated thousands of times in Qatar these days. Since we are talking about the relationship between music and football in this text, the late Argentine star played in an unforgettable episode in the warm-up of a UEFA match in 1989, when Napoli visited Bayern Munich. With his boots loose and to the rhythm of Opus’ ‘Live is life’, number 10 danced and performed magic with the ball. It’s an iconic football moment starring a legend who, while playing for Sevilla, asked to put Los Rodríguez’s ‘My Illness’ on the Pizjuán. This connected him to Calamaro, who made a song for the boy. Like the Mano Negra did: ‘Santa Maradona’. In addition, the football god also recorded a song with Pimpinela and had an affair with Lucía Galán, the singer. Football and music relationships like Bob Marley’s with a sport he was a fan of; or the passion for Manchester City of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallaguer, the one thing that unites them; or the Iron Maiden parties, with the 666 on their backs, on their promotional tours against journalists and other groups. In Spain they played with Dos, Hamlet, Tam Tam Go and Hombres G against musicians from Def. But those are other stories.
Source: La Verdad
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