Shakira no, Ricky Martin has the best song of the world cup
A few hours before the inauguration of the biggest soccer party of 2022, social networks went crazy with the name of Ricky Martin, and many remembered the song he performed for the 1988 FIFA World Cup France and said that so far it is the best that has been done.
With endless mentions on Twitter and more than 20 years after that World Cup, the Puerto Rican was once again the topic of conversation for ‘La copa de la vida’, a song that catapulted him to the farthest corners of the planet when he was beginning to generate fame outside his country as a soloist.
And it is noteworthy that in recent months the song composed for Qatar 2022 has sounded little, coupled with the fact that it has drawn more attention to the rejection of several artists to be in the opening of the sporting event.
Beyond Shakira‘s ‘Waka Waka’ in the World Cup Africa 2010, ‘The Cup of Life’ is being considered as the best song of the World Cup. But, let’s talk about the numbers that surrounded the song interpreted by Ricky Marin and composed by Luis Gómez Escolar, Desmond Child and Robi Draco Rosa.
That “You and me! Allez, allez, allez” generated a lot of numbers, for example it went gold and platinum all over Europe and reached #45 on the Billboard Hot 100.
According to several international publications, when Ricky Martin performed it live at the 1999 American Grammy Awards, a year after France 1998, other celebrities such as Madonna and The Rolling Stones called him on the phone to congratulate him.
“I have to admit that the challenge made me a little nervous, but the enormous growth potential for my career was such that I decided to accept it,” the singer revealed in a biography.
It is worth noting that the day Ricky Martin sang ‘La copa de la vida’ at the Grammys he put his American finger on the soccer line which, at the time, was not the forte of the North American country.
However, what most transformed this song and, of course, its interpreter, was a Latin footprint in a global party.
As if that were not enough, that FIFA Cup was won by the home team France, with one of the most famous national team lineups in the history of soccer, with Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry and Laurent Blanc
