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‘Bidi Bidi Bom Bom’ is one of the most emblematic musical themes of Selena quintanilla, the queen of Tex-Mex, who became an icon of Latin music. Selena had a great commercial success, grossing more than 70 million albums worldwide, she was named the only female artist to have five albums on the Billboard list at the same time.
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At 23 years old Selena She was at the peak of her success, with a promising music career and a clothing line called Selena Etc. She sold millions of copies of her five albums and was about to release another when her voice was muffled. Yolanda Saldívar, the founder and president of the artist’s fan club, shot her dead. The tragedy shocked the whole world.
Though 25 years have passed since his death, Selena quintanilla is still valid and his music has crossed the barriers of the time and penetrated several generations. One of his most popular themes is ‘Bidi Bidi Bom Bom’, which appears on the disc Forbidden love, released in July 1994.
The catchy song reached # 1 on Billboard’s Hot Lating Songs chart in October 1994, six months before his unexpected death at the age of 23. ‘Offer Bidi Well Well’ It is so popular that it continues to dance and sing at parties and pay tribute to the artist. But do you know how the name of this hit musical came about? Here we tell you.
The first version of ‘Bidi bidi good good’ was in English and came up spontaneously during the sound checks of Selena and her group The dinosaurs early nineties.
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Musician Pete Astudillo, who backed up Selena as part of the band at the time, revealed that the singer started improvising with her brother and bassist AB Quintanilla and her husband and guitarist Chris Pérez during a rehearsal, uttering nonsensical sentences, such as “Itty bitty bubbles”, which means “little bubbles” in Spanish.
The melody hit so hard that Selena and Los Dinos kept playing it during rehearsals and sound checks. In a 1993 YouTube video, Selena is seen even more improvising on the musical phrase, singing, ‘If I had one wish I’d like to be a fish and swim, swim I’d swim under the sea. so free ”, translated into Spanish means“ if I had a wish, I would swim in the sea, I would be so free ”.
AB Quintanilla asked Astudillo to write new lyrics, and in Spanish, for the catchy melody of cumbia and reggae tones. In the new version, the theme changed from the sea and bubbles to the sound that makes a beating heart fall in love.
