I remember listening to “Scorpions” at the ‘Are you nuts’ volume level on my tape recorder (Oh I feel so old!) and my mom screaming at me – “Turn down the volume right now… Do you even understand what they scream?” Frankly speaking I don’t think I understood the lyrics at that time. And I just wondered… Why do I need to?

Recently I got invitation to play at a Spanish bar where we were asked to perform some Spanish songs. So my friend gave me a list of 15 Spanish songs that he thought we could play. And I had to listen to all of them. And that’s when I realized what people mean by “Music knows no language”. They all were so beautiful. I did not understand a word of what they spoke about. But I understood the language of music. And they spoke so much. So here I present to my top 7 favorite Spanish songs that any music lover must listen to:

7. Quizzas Quizzas Quizzas – Nat King Cole

6. Historia De Un Amor - Unknown

5. Balance – Sara Tavares

4. No Me Vayas A Enganar - Omara Portuondo

3. Volare – Gipsy Kings

2. Que Sera – Jairo (con Ana Belen)

1. Nadio El Mundo - Buika

P.S. Don’t be surprised if you see a fresh take of one of these songs in the next movie for which Pritam composes the music J I’m sure he would have become tired of ‘getting inspired’ from Japanese, Chinese, American and Pakistani music.