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Mar 28, 2022 · Academy Award ® Nominee for Best Original Song Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. See Disney’s Encanto now streaming on Disney+🕯️ 🦋Songs from Encanto, by LinMa...
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Feb 10, 2022 · Academy Award ® Nominee for Best Original Song Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. See Disney’s Encanto now streaming on Disney+🕯️ 🦋Walt Disney Animation Studio...
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Mar 27, 2022 · Sebastian Yatra Gives the Crowd Butterflies With ‘Dos Oruguitas’ Performance at the 2022 Oscars. The song was nominated at Sunday's ceremony for best original song, marking composer Lin-Manuel ...
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Acclaimed Colombian singer Sebastián Yatra remembers not knowing what to expect when he received a song recorded by Lin-Manuel Miranda titled "Dos Oruguitas," which means two caterpillars in Spanish.
After listening, he couldn’t help but wonder, "How am I going to make this even more beautiful than what it is already?" he told NBC News. "I thought about it a lot."
At a music studio in Los Angeles, take after take, Yatra meticulously perfected his interpretation of the song. He said changes in his tone needed to be purposeful and each word needed the right inflection to convey a complicated set of emotions in the most pivotal scene of "Encanto": The heart-wrenching backstory of Abuela Alma, the strict grandmother and matriarch of a multigenerational Colombian family whose children get magical powers on their fifth birthdays.
The heartfelt "Encanto" tune earned the composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda an Academy Award nomination for best original song, giving him a second shot at earning EGOT status — which is reserved for performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.
Yatra will perform the song at the Oscars ceremony Sunday.
“That’s something I’m super grateful for,” he said.
Paired with a simple melody, the sentimental folk ballad uses the image of caterpillars turning into butterflies as a metaphor to address Alma’s need to let her family grow through changes — as well as the hope that life can be beautiful after enduring pain.
Peppered with croony high notes, the song feels conversational and emotional, even for non-Spanish speakers.
Yatra had recorded an English version of the song, in case Disney wanted to use it when it released the film in certain countries. But the movie studio decided to keep "Dos Oruguitas" in its native Spanish all across the world.
"It's crazy that the Spanish version had so much emotion in it. It depicted the story so well, and it just told the story in such an honest way," Yatra said. "You don't have to understand a song to feel the words — there's an emotion that you're conveying."
"Encanto" resonated with many Colombians who, like Yatra, felt an overwhelming sense of pride watching a Disney animated film feature their native country in an enlightening way.
While watching the film in a full theater at Bogotá's Teatro Colón, "I felt such a beautiful thing and so much satisfaction," Yatra said. "I just started crying like a little kid."
The 27-year-old singer-songwriter is part of a growing wave of Colombian artists who are looking to showcase their country internationally through art and music.
Born in Medellín and raised in Miami, Yatra returned to Colombia to launch his music career, achieving breakout success in 2018 with the hit “Traicionera,” or traitor in English.
The artist released his third studio album "Dharma" in January, with 17 tracks spanning multiple genres and featuring numerous collaborations with artists such as the Jonas Brothers, Daddy Yankee, Rauw Alejandro, among many others.
The album effectively demonstrates his versatility as a musician — fusing pop and reggaeton, as well as some punk rock and Colombian music influences, a combination that for Yatra, “says more about me as a person than as an artist.”
The latest single, “Tacones Rojos,” or red high heels in English, quickly became a viral smash on TikTok earlier this month.
Yatra attributes the song’s popularity to “the amount of good energy” the chords and the lyrics inject on people.
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Mar 25, 2022 · The opportunities that have come his way in 2022, Yatra tells TODAY over the phone, have been both “surreal” and “very, very real” at the same time. “We are enjoying them all and having ...
Mar 28, 2022 · Lin-Manuel Miranda’s complex quest for simplicity with ‘Dos Oruguitas’ from ‘Encanto’. March 8, 2022. Yatra first made his breakthrough in 2017, when he recorded “Robarte un Beso ...
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Mar 27, 2022 · March 27, 2022. Sebastián Yatra, March 2022 (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) Tonight at the 2022 Oscars, Colombian singer and songwriter Sebastián Yatra performed “Dos Oruguitas” from Disney ...
