Eres Tu (It’s You) is one of my favourite Spanish songs. It was written by Juan Carlos Calderón and performed by the Spanish band Mocedades, with Amaya Uranga performing the lead vocal. We are not just talking about any song here, ‘Eres Tu‘ remains one of the few Spanish speaking songs to make the top 10 in the United States.
I brought it up in the comments of another post here, but if you listen to the beginning of Bob Dylan’s – Is Your Love in Vain (1978), it has an uncanny resemblance to the introduction of today’s song Eres Tu. Coincidence or Love and Theft?
In 1967, in the Basque city of Bilbao, three young sisters, including today’s singer Amaya formed a vocal trio singing folk and spiritual music and spent a year performing around their hometown. Producer Juan Carlos Calderón in Madrid took an immediate interest in the group and named them Mocedades, meaning “youths“.
Eres Tu was chosen as the Spanish entry in 1973 for the Eurovision contest. This song also has an English version titled “Touch the Wind” with lyrics by Mike Hawker.
I hope you enjoy the original below.
Like a promise, it’s you, it’s you
Like a summer morning
Like a smile, it’s you, it’s you
So, so, it’s you
All my hope, it’s you, it’s you
As fresh rain in my hands
Like a strong breeze, it’s you, it’s you
So, so, it’s you
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
Observation Blogger 
The song reminded me – probably because the word is in the song – when we were young and went camping we always referred to our tent site as “mañana” – “Time to go back to mañana!” I have no idea how the “tradition” started. An enjoyable song thanks Matthew.
That’s interesting. Weird the tent called ‘mañana’ (tomorrow). I liked camping in boy scouts and the military. I miss it. Glad you liked it Bruce. Thanks.
I think the “tomorrow” reference was sort of like “don’t do today what you can put off till tomorrow”!
‘Don’t delay gratification’ in other words?
I will always love the song “Eres Tu” in Spanish. I have sung this song since 5th grade at Hingham Elementary School when I was 14 years old. I absolutely love “Eres Tu” !!! I have been to Spain in 1977 with my Spanish high school class of 12 students. We went to Madrid, Malaga, Sevilla (La Fiesta de Sevilla). Granada, Bilbao, Cordoba, Toledo, Andalucia, and also Torremolinos. I still have my woven pocketbook (made in Madrid), my leather wallet, mis castanetas, photos taken of the 4 bullfights in one day (not a single matador got gorded), going to La Alhambra and I still practice my Flamenco with my music that the Flamenco dancer gave me. I loved being at the Alcazar, El Escorial, and La Mezquita. The Moorish influence in Spain was outstanding! I WILL NEVER FORGET SPAIN, FOREVER!!!!!!!!
Hello there Valentina,
I was delighted to read about your deep and intricate connection with ‘Eres Tu’. That trip to Spain you described back in ’77 sounds marvellous. Also that you still possess so much memorabilia from it is testament to its immense impact on you. The bullfighting must have felt like something straight out of an Ernest Hemmingway novel ala ‘The Sun Also Rises’. I love that book. I’m largely unfamiliar with Flamenco music but I did post on Madonna’s ‘La Isla Bonita’. I haven’t been to Spain, but I hope to one day especially after reading about your experiences here. Viva España!