"La Bicicleta" is a song by Colombian singers Carlos Vives and Shakira from Vives' fifteenth studio album Vives and is also included as an album track on Shakira's eleventh studio album El Dorado. The song was written by both singers, and produced by Andrés Castro and it marks Shakira's first collaboration with a fellow Colombian artist. "La Bicicleta" was intended to be representative of both singers' homelands musical styles in Colombia. It is a song with a mixture of various musical elements - vallenato, pop and cumbia and instrumentally, it features indigenous Colombian wind instruments and accordions. Lyrically, it is a nostalgic song, describing the duo's excursion on bikes to places of their childhood. Music critics reviewed the song positively, praising it for its catchiness and inclusion of various Colombian music elements. The song won two Latin Grammy Awards at the 17th Latin Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
| Recorded | 2016 |
| Genre | Vallenato, pop, reggaeton |
| Label | Sony Music Latin |
| Writer(s) | Shakira, Carlos Vives, Andrés Castro |
| Producer(s) | Shakira, Carlos Vives, Andrés Castro, Luis Fernando Ochoa |
About La Bicicleta
Single from Carlos Vives and Shakira that won Latin Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year in 2016. The music video for the song also earned acclaim, receiving the Video of the Year award at the 2017 Premio lo Nuestro ceremony.
Achievement of La Bicicleta
The song appears on two of Shakira's albums, both of which were released in 2017: Vives and El Dorado. The song went 7× Platinum in Spain and was a #1 hit in Colombia, Mexico, Chile and several other countries.
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Latest information about La Bicicleta updated on July 28 2021.
