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“Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” is one of the most emblematic musical themes of Selena quintanilla, Queen Tex Mex, who became an icon of Latin music. Selena was a huge commercial success that generated sales of over 70 million albums worldwide, she was named the only female artist to have five albums at the same time ranked on the Billboard charts.
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At 23 years old selenite She was at the pinnacle of 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. The tragedy shocked the whole world.
Although 25 years have passed since his death, Selena quintanilla it is still valid and its music has overcome the barriers of time and penetrated in several generations. One of his most popular topics is “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom”, which appears on the disc Forbidden love, released in July 1994.
The catchy song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Lating Songs chart in October 1994, six months before his unexpected death at the age of 23. “Bid bidi good good” He is so popular that he continues to dance and sing at parties and tributes to the artist. But, do you know how the name of this musical hit came about? Here we tell you.
The first version of “Bidi bidi well well” it was in English and appeared spontaneously during the sound checks of Selena and her group Dinosii in the early nineties.
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Musician Pete Astudillo, who at the time supported Selena as part of the band, revealed that during a rehearsal, the singer began improvising with her brother and bassist AB Quintanilla and her husband and guitarist Chris Pérez, vocalizing meaningless phrases such as ” Itty bitty bubbles “, which means” small bubbles “in Spanish.
The song hit so hard that Selena and Los Dinos continued to sing it in rehearsals and sound checks. In a 1993 YouTube video, Selena is seen improvising even more on the musical phrase, singing “If I had a desire, I would like to be a fish and I would swim, I would swim under the sea I would be so free.” translated into Spanish means “if I had a desire, I would swim in the sea, I would be so free.”
AB Quintanilla asked Astudillo to write a new verse, and in Spanish to go with the catchy song of cumbia and reggae nuances. In the new version, the theme has changed from sea and bubbles to the sound that makes the heart beat in love.
