Conga is a song by Gloria Estefan, one of the world’s most famous singers and actresses, part of the Miami Sound Machine band.
She was born in September 1957 and is known as a Cuban-American actress, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.
She started her career leading the group Miami Latin Boys, and she experienced worldwide success with her single Conga, in 1985.
Conga is the first hit single released by her in the Miami Sound Machine band. It is on their second English-language album, which was their ninth album overall, named Primitive Love.
The song is written by Enrique Garcia.
The song was released in July 1985, as a dance-pop song, with a length of 4:14 minutes.
Gloria said about the background of the song that Conga was written after the band had performed Dr. Beat in Utrecht in a club, in the Netherlands.
Conga won a lot of prizes, was certified Gold by the RIAA in the US, reached number 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and won the Grand Prize at the 15th annual Tokyo Music Festival in Japan.
The song was certified GOLD in the US for shipments of more than 500,000 copies.
We all know that it had enormous success over the world; we all danced on it at least once in our lives, even if it was just from our chair at the office or a party, or radio.
The free Conga piano sheet music song was also re-recorded in 2001 as a new remix, including parts from Dr. Beat and Rhythm Is Gonna Get You.
Conga also became a worldwide success and was used in commercials, movies. It has also been covered by many famous artists as Charo, in 1988, La Toya Jackson, in 1989, George Lam in 1986, or The Broadway in 1989.
The music video was filmed in a fictional Miami nightclub named Copacabana when holding a reception for an unspecified ambassador.
If you are interested also in the instruments present in the free Conga piano sheets, there are a lot of fun and cheerful instruments in the song line, such as lead drum – Quinto, bass drums, metallic sounds such as cowbells, spoons, frying pans and "bombos"- bass drums.
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