“Encanto” takes Luis Fonsi and Sebastián Yatra to Oscars. Movie wins statuette

Latinos Luis Fonsi and Sebastián Yatra debut at Oscars 2022. The most successful song of the animated movie “Charm” was performed live during the gala ceremony by the singers Luis Fonsi and Becky G.who surprised the public by performing the song “No one talks about Bruno.”

Although was not nominated for Best Original Song at the 2022 Oscars, the organizers of the Oscars decided that he had a special role during the award ceremony. This decision was made due to the great popularity of the song and the tape.

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“Charm” premiered last November, and since then it has become the most listened to song from a Disney animated movie in more than 26 years, surpassing “Let It Go” from “Frozen”.

So much “No one talks about Bruno” and “Dos oruguitas” were written by Lin Manuel-Miranda. In the case of this last song, which is also part of the sound track of “Encanto”, it was Sebastián Yatra. who played it at the award ceremony, who is at the Hollywood ceremony for the first time.

The Colombian singer wore a black suit with butterflies on the right side, while a couple of dancers accompanied Yatra on stage.

After walking the red carpet, he said that he never imagined that he could be at the Oscars, much less performing a song, so he promised to do it “with a lot of love, with a lot of respect and with a lot of pride in being the representative of Colombia and of the Spanish language.”

“Two caterpillars” It is the first song in Spanish nominated for the Academy Award since “Al otro lado del río” from Uruguayan Jorge Drexler’s “Motorcycle Diaries” won it in 2005.

The statuette for Best Animated Film It was precisely the movie “Encanto” that took her away. With that, They leave out the Mexican Arlos López Estradadirector who competed in the same category with the film Raya and the Last Dragon.