{"id":298619,"date":"2017-03-03T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298619"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:00:25","slug":"pop-stars-shakira-and-vives-accused-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/pop-stars-shakira-and-vives-accused-of-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop stars Shakira and Vives accused of plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Cuban singer has filed a complaint against the Colombian pop stars Shakira and Carlos Vives, accusing them of plagiarising part of a song he wrote 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
Their hit, La Bicicleta, won last year’s Grammy Latino.<\/p>\n
Cuban musician Livan Rafael Castellanos claims that Shakira and Vives copied a line and part of the chorus of his 1997 song Yo Te Quiero Tanto.<\/p>\n
The complaint was filed at a court in Spain, where Shakira lives.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the court said the case centred around an intellectual property problem and focuses mainly on the melody and the lyrics of the choruses of both songs.<\/p>\n
In La Bicicleta (or The Bicycle) Shakira and Vives sing “que te sueno y que te quiero tanto” (I dream of you and love you so much).<\/p>\n
The Cuban artist, known as Livam, sings “yo te quiero, yo te quiero tanto” (I love you, I love you so much).<\/p>\n
El Mundo newspaper in Spain reported that the two sides had a meeting in October but they failed to reach a settlement.<\/p>\n
AFP news agency says Shakira’s team has refused to comment on the case.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Cuban singer has filed a complaint against the Colombian pop stars Shakira and Carlos Vives, accusing them of plagiarising part of a song he wrote 10 years ago. Their hit, La Bicicleta, won last year’s Grammy Latino. Cuban musician Livan Rafael Castellanos claims that Shakira and Vives copied a line and part of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[403,137],"tags":[4617,4618,4619],"yoast_head":"\n