“I said Já de Jé / de Jebe tu by Jébere Sebiunouva / Majabi An of Buygui / An of Buididipí”. If you have read this in your head, it is probably impossible for you to get the song to which this letter corresponds in a good time. This 2025, one of the most remembered ‘hits’ of Spanish music will turn 23.
He will do it in the month of June. In 2002, the sisters Lola, Pilar and Lucía Muñozdaughters of the well -known flamenco guitarist Juan Muñoz ‘El Tomate’, formed the group called ‘Las Ketchup’. That summer, the album created with the composer Manuel Ruiz ‘Queco’ left a song that will be linked to Spanish culture for ever and ever: ‘I said‘.
The song was a reworking of the start of the song ‘Rapper’s Delight’, the famous theme that The Sugarhill Gang launched in 1979, toned as someone would do without an idea of English. So, “I said a hip hop the hippie …“It became” Aderejé Ja de Je “.
“We found it weird, the truthand we believed that the chorus was impossible to sing itbut on the same day he went ahead, “said the Muñoz sisters in an interview with Efe. Since then, his musical career did nothing but climb.
Of being a global ‘hit’ to the judicial battle
The Cordoba trio began with the independent seal Shaketown Musicalthough it soon arrived at an agreement with Sony Music for the national and international distribution of the song. “There they already told us it was a ‘hit’“The artists confessed.
When they had not yet recorded the album, which they gave the name of ‘Daughters of Tomato’, ‘Aserejé’ had already reached the radios around the world to become the subject of summer not only in Spain, but also in Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Mexico or Australia.
More than 20 countries crowned the song, which was in the 100th of the best selling in history worldwide and had versions even in Chinese and Japanese. “We were very surprised, because it was overnight. We took airplanes like the one who took taxis and there was a time when at the hotel bedside table I had to put on: ‘I am in such a place’ to remember it when you wake up, “Pilar said in that interview with Efe.
However, things soon twisted. The judicial conflict between Sony Music and Shaketown Music He made his career paralyze his career overnight. In spite of everything, the rights of ‘said’ were never his own, but of the author ‘Queco’that in statements to ‘ABC’ assures that he gave him and continues to give him benefits to live and his descendants.
Four years later, ‘the ketchup’ were able to get their second album, ‘A Blodymary‘, In 2006. When they finally received the green light for that project, by the hand of Warner Music, their only promotion was, at least, peculiar. “The only promotion that was made, which was not promotion, was to send us to Eurovision“Lucia said.
“The ketchup ‘we do not disappearbecause we continue working, but when we are in other countries here in Spain nobody finds out, “the sisters regret, who were mothers and have not taken more music -not in single format or album.
Source: Lasexta
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