Me Estoy Enloqueciendo Por Ti (‘I’m Going Crazy For You’) is one of the first Latin America Salsa songs that I adored instantly and listened to repeatedly over the years. If I was forced to choose my favourite salsa song then it would be today’s track although I’m hardly a connoisseur of the genre. I used this song as an emblematic track to a family holiday video we had in Giradot, in the state, Tolima Colombia. It is the second latino song from Jerry Rivera to presented after Amores como el Nuestro (Loves’ like Our One). This is pure ‘Salsa Rosa‘ which I described recently as:
‘Salsa Rosa‘ is a colloquial term which typifies Salsa music romantical which garnered notoriety in the mid-1980s. I imagine the Rose (flower) is used because it is delicate and in general these types of Salsa songs raise emotions of romance and sex and how men try to entice or capture women with Roses. So, it is a mix between ballads and orchestral music that is adorned with sensual, sexual, flirtatious and romantic lyrics.
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A crude English translation of the opening stanzas of Me Estoy Enloqueciendo Por Ti (‘I’m Going Crazy For You’) follows:
Your look has my heart
tied in four parts
and falling at your feet
I get to the bottom of you
and I dance alone in the air
Without knowing my name
I no longer have a head
and my legs are shaking
to think of your love
I am
I’m going crazy for you
I’m sticking to your shadow to die
completely losing control
Jerry Rivera like Eddie Santiago whose song I presented recently Lluvia is from Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is located on the continent of North America, in between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico has produced a plethora of influential Salsa artists whose music is adored in Latin America. Jerry Rivera was born in 1973 in the town of Humacao located on the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. His entire family consists of musicians, including tropical recording artists Edwin Rivera and younger sister Saned.
‘Fabiolasanchez5003‘ wrote the following about Me Estoy Enloqueciendo Por Ti (‘I’m Going Crazy For You’) in the you tube comments below:
Those times… They fill me with nostalgia and sadness… it was an innocent time, with poetic and metaphorical lyrics, where childhood and youth were lived to the full. Valuing the small details as it should be, without the current coldness of technology and music without rhythm and without lyrics.
Jerry Rivera has performed in Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, Panama, the United States, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Sweden, France, and Japan.
References:
1. Jerry Rivera – Wikipedia
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