Running from the past in the early morning / I can't find any way to erase our history." "Huyendo del pasado en cada madrugada / No encuentro ningún modo de borrar nuestra historia," he sings.
"And even though he's not the best voice there is in the market, his lyrics are so good that his songs are good."īueno wrote "Súbeme La Radio" not expecting to solo in it, he says - but Iglesias insisted he write himself a special verse. Vistar(Bueno graced one of the magazine's first covers). "He's the best songwriter right now in Cuba," says Celia Mendoza of Cuban music magazine By the 2000s, Bueno was producing songs for pop stars and Hollywood movies.
and South Africa, his music turned grittier, bearing influences of everything from New York rap to Caribbean calypso and reggae. He started his music career playing bass with famed Cuban troubadour Santiago Feliú, later breaking out in his own jazz bands. The Cuban reggaeton sound of "Subeme la Radio" is a departure for Descemer Bueno, pictured here at a Spanish gala in July. "I come from more romantic songwriting," explains the songwriter, now 46. He was rehearsing the hit song for a solo concert in the historic Hotel Nacional.īueno's foray into Cuban reggaeton is a new turn for him. The lyrics to "Súbeme La Radio" may be filled with heartbreak, but the song is upbeat, Bueno says from a soundcheck in Havana. The song won several Latin Grammys that year. This isn't Bueno and Iglesias' first collaboration: They worked together on 2014's homage to dancing, "Bailando," with Bueno's fellow Cuban musicians Gente de Zona. Its lyrics depict a familiar scene: turning up the radio while nursing a broken heart. "Súbeme La Radio" is sung by Enrique Iglesias and was written by Cuban composer-turned-jazz bassist Descemer Bueno and Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Zion and Lennox. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's super-hit "Despacito." But "Súbeme La Radio" - a track about how a good song takes your mind off heartache - might just give "Despacito" a run for its money. In Latin America - and in the U.S., for that matter - it's been hard for a song this summer to break past
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