Soleado

"Soleado" is a wordless song composed by Ciro Dammicco under the alias "Zacar", based on his earlier composition "Le rose blu" published in 1972. The first recorded version was 1974's version of the Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble, of which Ciro was a member.

It has been sung with various lyrics by many well-known artists, such as Percy Faith, Paul Mauriat, Mireille Mathieu, Bayer Full and several others.

The melody has also been adapted to the Christmas song "When a Child Is Born" (sung by Johnny Mathis, becoming a number one hit in the UK), to the German song Tränen lügen nicht (sung by Michael Holm, becoming a number one hit in Germany and a Top 10 hit in Austria and Switzerland), and to its techno version Tears don't lie (by Mark'Oh in 1995, a German Number 1-hit). There is also a parody Dänen lügen nicht (Danish people don't lie), sung by Otto Waalkes. Gigi D'Agostino has made a trance remix of the tune as well.

The Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese sing a custom cover in their New Year's Eve concerts, called Buon Anno Nuovo, with the words "Buon anno nuovo" (Happy New Year) as the only repeated lyrics. The Czech singer Karel Gott sings a cover called Měl jsem rád a mám (I loved and I still do). In Hungary Zsuzsa Cserháti did a cover in 1978 entitled "Édes kisfiam" (My sweet little child) which remains very popular today.