You know when there’s a song you heard a long time ago, you’d love to actually own it, but can’t remember ANYTHING about it?
I heard this song in passing a week ago; it was on a CD my parents had and it was one of my favorites. But I couldn’t remember the name to spare my life…I knew it was something-rrubina or something-rubina (r and rr are considered different letters in Spanish). Eventually, I remembered one of the other songs on the CD, and after poking in the Interwebs and iTunes…ah…there it is…La Bilirrubina (sometimes misspelled Billirubina)…
Other songs I’d recommend (some of these have multiple renditions, so the artist listed may not be the only one)
A Pedir Su Mano (Juan Luis Guerra)
Orgullo de Ti (Pedro Sanchez)
Merengue Passion (Camino De Lobo)
Amor de Mis Amores (Rosario Alvarez, al Sur, and others)
Just a dumb question–isn’t Bilirrubina the Spanish word for “bilirubin” the waste product in your blood that’s results from the breakdown of hemoglobin? The music was very cool but the name of the band seemed a little strange…
You are correct! The singer indicates his bilirubin levels spike because of a lack of love.
(My Spanish is way too poor to have understood that in song, but good enough to read some of it; here are the lyrics if you know Spanish)
The song’s name is “La Bilirrubina”, not the band.
Okay, THAT makes much more sense–I’m a little dense today :0