Its original writing credit was the suitably Brazilian-sounding Chico de Oliviera. Kaoma's first single was simply called "Lambada"-although it was in fact a retitled, slightly more vigorous cover of "Chorando se foi," with a cry of "dançado lambada!" thrown in at the end. He subsequently organized a band called Kaoma, which mostly consisted of ex-members of the Senegalese-French band Touré Kunda (here's an early Touré Kunda song, " Salaly Muhamed"). A French producer named Olivier Lamotte d'Incamps apparently heard "Chorando Se Foi" on a trip to Brazil in 1988, and saw a bunch of young people doing a dance they called lambada. The next year, the Brazilian pop singer Márcia Ferreira juiced up the rhythm of the Cuarteto Continental arrangement, translated Los Kjarkas' Spanish lyrics into Portugese, and recorded the song as "Chorando Se Foi." In Ferreira's version, she's still singing about crying, but you wouldn't know it from her come-hither delivery. The Peruvian group El Cuarteto Continental, covered " Llorando Se Fue" in 1985, and turned the panpipe line of Los Kjarkas' version over to an accordion. (That video linked above was made a bit later, but it's worth watching for its ridiculous karaoke-laserdisc production values.) It takes a lot to make panpipes sound cool even outside of a música folklórica context, but they pulled it off. In 1981, the Hermosa brothers's folk group Los Kjarkas recorded an insanely catchy song called " Llorando Se Fue." Its lyrics are boilerplate stuff-"the one who made me cry is crying now"-but it's got a terrific, sneaky melody, with phrases that go on longer or shorter than they seem like they're about to, and a skipped beat near the end of the chorus. You probably don't know their names, but it's a sure thing you've heard at least one of their melodies. American Idol also provided a platform to debut the single's music video, as well as the stage for Lopez's first live performance of the song.Among the eight names listed as co-writers of Jennifer Lopez's new single "On the Floor," a couple stand out: Ulises Hermosa, who died in 1992, and his brother Gonzalo, a pair of Bolivian folk musicians who belonged to a movement called música folklórica that's pretty much what it sounds like.
The debut and release of "On the Floor" coincided with Lopez's appointment as a judge on the tenth season of US reality TV show American Idol, as well as several other product endorsement deals.
Lopez described "On the Floor" as an evolution of her classic sound and as something which sounded very current. Interpolated within the song are recurrent elements of the 1982 Bolivian composition "Llorando se fue" written by Gonzalo and Ulises Hermosa, a composition that gained notoriety when it was sampled by Kaoma in their 1989 single "Lambada". Its development was motivated by Lopez's Latin heritage and pays homage to her career-beginnings as a dancer. Lopez recorded a Spanish-language version of the song titled "Ven a Bailar" (English: "Come to Dance"), which includes additional lyrical contributions from Julio Reyes Copello and Jimena Romero. "On the Floor" incorporates elements of electro house and draws further musical influences from eurodance, Latin music and techno music.
It is an up-tempo electro-house and dance-pop song with a common time tempo of 130 beats per minute. "On the Floor" was written by Kinnda "Kee" Hamid, AJ Junior, Teddy Sky, Bilal "The Chef" Hajji, Pitbull, Gonzalo Hermosa, Ulises Hermosa, along with the song's producer RedOne. Featuring American rapper Pitbull, it was released by Island Records on Februas the lead single from the album. "On the Floor" is a song recorded by American singer Jennifer Lopez for her seventh studio album, Love? (2011).