Pink Martini is a 13-member "little orchestra" from Portland, Oregon, forme… Read Full Bio ↴Pink Martini is a 13-member "little orchestra" from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas Lauderdale. They draw inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop.
Pink Martini has twelve instrumentalists (and sometimes travels with string sections), and performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with over 30 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004 & 2008; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in NYC; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; and the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia.
Lauderdale met China Forbes, Pink Martini’s lead vocalist, at Harvard. He was studying history and literature while she was studying English literature and painting. Late at night, they would break into the lower common room in their college dormitory and sing arias by Puccini and Verdi – and the occasional campy Barbra Streisand cover –thus sealing their creative collaboration. Three years after graduating, Lauderdale called Forbes who was living in New York City, where she’d been writing songs and playing guitar in her own folk-rock project, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together for the band. Their first song “Sympathique”– with the chorus “Je ne veux pas travailler” (”I don’t want to work”) – became an overnight sensation in France, and was even nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards. Forbes, though fluent only in English, sings in 15 different languages.
Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000.
In October 2004, the group released its second album, Hang on Little Tomato.
In May 2007, it released its third album, Hey Eugene!.
A fourth studio album, Splendor in the Grass, followed on October 27, 2009.
Sympathique, Hang on Little Tomato and Hey Eugene! have all gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey; collectively, Pink Martini's records have sold more than two million copies worldwide.
On New Year's Eve 2005, Pink Martini performed live at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. This performance was aired live on National Public Radio's Toast of the Nation, and in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting was recorded for a live DVD and later broadcast on US public broadcasting and French television.[citation needed] The DVD has been rereleased to retail as Discover the World: Live in Concert, featuring not only the full concert, but several vignettes and a short documentary of the band's history.
The band has collaborated and performed with Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Henri Salvador, Jane Powell, Chavela Vargas, Georges Moustaki, Michael Feinstein, DJ Dimitri from Paris, clarinetist and conductor Norman Leyden, Hiroshi Wada, DJ Johnny Dynell and several drag queens from New York City, among others. On June 1, 2007, the band appeared on the long-running BBC Two Later with Jools Holland TV music program. On June 14, 2007, Pink Martini performed on Late Show with David Letterman, performing "Hey Eugene".
Pink Martini played Walt Disney Concert Hall on New Year's Eve for the first two years it was open (2003/4 and 2004/5). They returned to play NYE there again in 2008/9.
In May 2009, the band recorded three concerts with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Carlos Kalmar for the band’s fifth album … a symphonic record which is slated for a 2011 release.
Pink Martini songs appear in such films as In the Cut, Nurse Betty, Josie and the Pussycats, Tortilla Soup, Shanghai Kiss, Mary and Max, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and have been used on television shows such as Dead Like Me, The Sopranos and The West Wing, among others.[citation needed] Their song "Una notte a Napoli" is an integral part of the Italian movie Mine Vaganti (2010), by the Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek. The song "No Hay Problema" is included as background/setup music for Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and was also used as the background/setup music for an early build of Windows Longhorn, now known as Windows Vista.[citation needed]
In February 2011, the group's lead singer, China Forbes, recorded a video greeting to the European Space Agency's Italian astronaut, Paolo Nespoli, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri, on board the International Space Station. The astronauts were preparing to oversee the docking of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo vessel, Johannes Kepler, which took place at 17:08 CET on 24 February. The greeting was set to the sound track of Dosvedanya Mio Bombino - one of Pink Martini's signature songs - and was mixed with footage of the actual docking.
In November 2011, they played at the Balboa Theater with the Bonita Vista High School band, Club Blue.
Pink Martini has twelve instrumentalists (and sometimes travels with string sections), and performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with over 30 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004 & 2008; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in NYC; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; and the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia.
Lauderdale met China Forbes, Pink Martini’s lead vocalist, at Harvard. He was studying history and literature while she was studying English literature and painting. Late at night, they would break into the lower common room in their college dormitory and sing arias by Puccini and Verdi – and the occasional campy Barbra Streisand cover –thus sealing their creative collaboration. Three years after graduating, Lauderdale called Forbes who was living in New York City, where she’d been writing songs and playing guitar in her own folk-rock project, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together for the band. Their first song “Sympathique”– with the chorus “Je ne veux pas travailler” (”I don’t want to work”) – became an overnight sensation in France, and was even nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards. Forbes, though fluent only in English, sings in 15 different languages.
Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000.
In October 2004, the group released its second album, Hang on Little Tomato.
In May 2007, it released its third album, Hey Eugene!.
A fourth studio album, Splendor in the Grass, followed on October 27, 2009.
Sympathique, Hang on Little Tomato and Hey Eugene! have all gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey; collectively, Pink Martini's records have sold more than two million copies worldwide.
On New Year's Eve 2005, Pink Martini performed live at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. This performance was aired live on National Public Radio's Toast of the Nation, and in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting was recorded for a live DVD and later broadcast on US public broadcasting and French television.[citation needed] The DVD has been rereleased to retail as Discover the World: Live in Concert, featuring not only the full concert, but several vignettes and a short documentary of the band's history.
The band has collaborated and performed with Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Henri Salvador, Jane Powell, Chavela Vargas, Georges Moustaki, Michael Feinstein, DJ Dimitri from Paris, clarinetist and conductor Norman Leyden, Hiroshi Wada, DJ Johnny Dynell and several drag queens from New York City, among others. On June 1, 2007, the band appeared on the long-running BBC Two Later with Jools Holland TV music program. On June 14, 2007, Pink Martini performed on Late Show with David Letterman, performing "Hey Eugene".
Pink Martini played Walt Disney Concert Hall on New Year's Eve for the first two years it was open (2003/4 and 2004/5). They returned to play NYE there again in 2008/9.
In May 2009, the band recorded three concerts with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Carlos Kalmar for the band’s fifth album … a symphonic record which is slated for a 2011 release.
Pink Martini songs appear in such films as In the Cut, Nurse Betty, Josie and the Pussycats, Tortilla Soup, Shanghai Kiss, Mary and Max, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and have been used on television shows such as Dead Like Me, The Sopranos and The West Wing, among others.[citation needed] Their song "Una notte a Napoli" is an integral part of the Italian movie Mine Vaganti (2010), by the Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek. The song "No Hay Problema" is included as background/setup music for Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and was also used as the background/setup music for an early build of Windows Longhorn, now known as Windows Vista.[citation needed]
In February 2011, the group's lead singer, China Forbes, recorded a video greeting to the European Space Agency's Italian astronaut, Paolo Nespoli, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri, on board the International Space Station. The astronauts were preparing to oversee the docking of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo vessel, Johannes Kepler, which took place at 17:08 CET on 24 February. The greeting was set to the sound track of Dosvedanya Mio Bombino - one of Pink Martini's signature songs - and was mixed with footage of the actual docking.
In November 2011, they played at the Balboa Theater with the Bonita Vista High School band, Club Blue.
Donde Estas Yolanda?
Pink Martini Lyrics
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Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Tus ojos me miraron
Tus labios me besaron
Con ese fuego ardiente
Ardiente de mujer
La luz de tu mirada
El fuego de tus labios
Flecharon a mi pecho y de ti me enamore
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Me dicen que paseabas
En un carro Yolanda
Muy guapa y arrogante
Y todos te silbaban
Si un dia te encontrara
No se que puedo hacer
No se me vuelvo loco
Si ya no te vuelvo a ver
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Your eyes watched Your lips to me kissed to me With that Ardent ardent fire of woman The light of your glance the fire of your Flecharon lips to my chest and of you enamors to me Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Dikedikeda! Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda They say to me that you took a walk In Very handsome and arrogant a Yolanda car and all they whistled to you. If a day found you Not that I can do Not I return crazy If no longer I return to see you Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Tus ojos me miraron
Tus labios me besaron
Con ese fuego ardiente
Ardiente de mujer
La luz de tu mirada
El fuego de tus labios
Flecharon a mi pecho y de ti me enamore
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Me dicen que paseabas
En un carro Yolanda
Muy guapa y arrogante
Y todos te silbaban
Si un dia te encontrara
No se que puedo hacer
No se me vuelvo loco
Si ya no te vuelvo a ver
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Donde estas, donde estas, Yolanda
Que paso, que paso, Yolanda
Te busque, te busque, Yolanda
Y no estas, y no estas Yolanda
Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Your eyes watched Your lips to me kissed to me With that Ardent ardent fire of woman The light of your glance the fire of your Flecharon lips to my chest and of you enamors to me Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Dikedikeda! Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda They say to me that you took a walk In Very handsome and arrogant a Yolanda car and all they whistled to you. If a day found you Not that I can do Not I return crazy If no longer I return to see you Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda Where these, where these, Yolanda That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda
The song "Donde Estas Yolanda" by Pink Martini is a Spanish-language song that tells the story of a man who is searching for a woman named Yolanda. The man talks about how he fell in love with her when she looked at him with her fiery gaze and kissed him with her passionate lips. He expresses his frustration at not being able to find her, even though he has been searching for her. The lyrics suggest that Yolanda is a charismatic, confident woman who attracts attention wherever she goes, and the man fears that he may never see her again.
The song has a catchy, upbeat melody that is influenced by Latin American music, particularly Cuban son. The lyrics are written in a poetic, romantic style, with repeated phrases and a refrain that emphasizes the importance of finding Yolanda. The song's title translates to "Where Are You, Yolanda?" and the lyrics suggest that the man is desperate to find her.
Overall, "Donde Estas Yolanda" is a song about love, longing, and the search for a lost object of desire. It captures the passion and energy of Latin American music and conveys a sense of urgency and longing that is relatable to anyone who has ever searched for a lost love.
Line by Line Meaning
Where these, where these, Yolanda
Where are you, Yolanda?
That step, that step, Yolanda it looks for to You, looks for to you, Yolanda and not these, and not these Yolanda
What happened, Yolanda? I looked for you, but you're not here.
Your eyes watched Your lips to me kissed to me With that Ardent ardent fire of woman
Your passionate eyes and fiery lips made me fall in love with you.
The light of your glance the fire of your Flecharon lips to my chest and of you enamors to me
Your gaze and kiss have captured my heart.
They say to me that you took a walk In Very handsome and arrogant a Yolanda car and all they whistled to you.
I heard that you were seen riding in a beautiful car and everyone whistled at you.
If a day found you Not that I can do Not I return crazy If no longer I return to see you
If I were to ever find you again, I don't know what I would do. If I never see you again, I will go crazy.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: MANUEL JIMENEZ FERNANDEZ
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@kalafinwe5498
Came for the song
Stayed for the dog
Pressed replay for the song
@PinkMartiniOfficial
We came to read your comment
hearted it cuz of the Dog part
Pinned it cuz we love it so much.
@kalafinwe5498
Thank you ! Beautiful dog, and you are an amazing group.
@evamartaharbar1403
Hermoso bolero!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peruanísimooooooooooooooooooo ... verdad!!!!!!
@user-gu8gd5zo7h
Soy mexicana y es un honor escucharla en voces extranjeras. En México la canta la sonora Santanera.
@simonamar.trujillo7036
BUEN!!! BOLERO PERUANO. GRACIAS POR TOCARLA EXCELENTES MÚSICOS!!
@jorgemunozzuniga3378
Me gustaria saber quien es el autor de esta hermosa cancion
@simonamar.trujillo7036
@@jorgemunozzuniga3378 AUTOR:MANUEL JIMÉNEZ FERNÁNDEZ, INTERPRETADO POR PRIMERA VEZ POR: RAMÓN AVILÉS
@jorgemunozzuniga3378
@@simonamar.trujillo7036 Muchas gracias Simon
@jorgemunozzuniga3378
Aca en mi amado Chile . La popularizo el gran Luisin Landaez . Yo era niño y tiene que haber sido a fines de los sesenta y comienzos de los sesenta . Tambien recuerdo haber escuchado una version del gran Lucho Barrios (Muy querido y respetado en Chile )