"Amigos Para Siempre", or "Friends for Life" (lit. "friends forever"), is a song written for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The lyrics, written by Don Black, are in English, except for the title phrase which is repeated in English, Spanish and Catalan. The 92 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (City of Counts) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Don Black OBE (born June 21, 1938) is an English lyricist. ... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...

José Carreras & Sarah Brightman version

The song was interpreted by Sarah Brightman and José Carreras during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games.The duet was also released world wide as a single to coincide with the Olympic games. A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... José Carreras Coll (Catalan: Josep Carreras i Coll) (born December 5, 1946) is a Spanish operatic tenor. ... Sarah Brightman (born August 14, 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up Classical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Don Black OBE (born June 21, 1938) is an English lyricist. ... Sarah Brightman (born August 14, 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer. ... Sarah Brightman (born August 14, 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer. ... José Carreras Coll (Catalan: Josep Carreras i Coll) (born December 5, 1946) is a Spanish operatic tenor. ...

Track listing

1. Amigos Para Siempre
2. Live Opening Ceremony Barcelona 1992 Games
3. Amigos Para Siempre (Spanish Version)

Other interpretations

In Spain the most famous rendition of this song was made by Spanish group Los Manolos with rumba arrangements and Spanish lyrics, except for the chorus. It reached number 3 in the Spanish charts. ^[1] It was later reinterpreted by Effie and Norman Gunston and reached the top 20 in Australia at the time. Rumba Flamenca, Rumba Flamenco, Flamenco Rumba, or Gypsy Rumba is a style of Rumba music from Southern Spain. ... Effie is an outrageous comedic character played by Australian actress Mary Coustas. ... Norman Gunston was a satirical character created by the Australian comic actor Garry McDonald. ...

In one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group's concerts in Beijing, China, a Chinese version of this song was performed with approximately half of the lyrics in Mandarin and half in English. In this version, "Amigos Para Siempre" was replaced by "永远的朋友", which is "Friends Forever" in Chinese. Peking redirects here. ...

This song was also used for the Shanghai 2007 Special Olympic Games, performed again by José Carreras and a Chinese soprano.

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