Ana Mena surprises her fans with the launch of the studio version of ‘The Cat Under the Rain’

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Ana Mena couldn’t have welcomed her 27th birthday in a better way. After getting your fourth non-consecutive number 1 for Madrid City in From 40 to 1 Coca Colathe double platinum record for the single and present it during the grand finale of OperaciĂłn Triunfo 2023our favorite Italian-Malagueña has fulfilled one of the most anticipated wishes of its fans by publishing the studio version of The cat under the rain.

A request that had been flooding the singer’s comments on her social networks for several months, specifically since at the beginning of last December decided to perform live a version of RocĂ­o Durcal’s song on her stop in Mexico with her Bellodrama Tour (and after having interpreted a little bit in their Instagram stories). Since then, The cat under the rain It has been part of the repertoire of his tour and we are sure that it will be present in El gran Bellodrama planned for the end of this year.

Ana Mena’s fans were already on notice a few hours before. And the artist herself used her X 24 account to announce that “Tomorrow there is a little surprise :)”. No sooner said than done. When it was ten minutes past midnight the bomb exploded and the song was already with us.

Ana Mena thus pays her particular tribute to the queen of boleros at a time when we are witnessing a greater prominence of the songs that are part of the legacy of the great folkloric artists of our time. She already did it at the end of last year, but 2 years before The cat under the rain He was resurrected with lip sync in the final of Drag Race Spain 1, which crowned Carmen Farala as the first queen of the format in our country. In recent weeks, furthermore, Naiara He left us with our mouths open after singing it at Gala 8 of OperaciĂłn Triunfo. Today his version has accumulated a whopping 2.5 million views on Spotify.

In a similar sense, Rosalía and Belén Aguilera have paid their particular tribute to Rocío Juradoanother of the greats of Spain, with its interpretations of Our love broke and Point respectively.

Be that as it may, the woman from Malaga has shown that she knows her fans and continues to surprise us while we wait for the arrival of a new single in the coming months. She, for the moment, He leaves clues along the way and we follow the breadcrumbs back home. His house.

And you, did you like this version of The cat under the rain?

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