"Procuro olvidarte" is the name of the song that was the first international hit of the Nicaragua

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n singer and composer Hernaldo Zúñiga

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, the song was composed by Manuel Alejandro

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 and Ana Magdalena, as the interpreter recognizes "based on a loving episode that I lived in thoses days", and because of his state of mind, he says, it was impossible for him to write it. This song put him in the international musical map, in a little time it reached the top of popularity and sales of Spanish tongue.

The song was included in the album: "Hernaldo, El Original" (Hernaldo, The Original) released in 1980, this album launched his international career, it was multi-platinum in the most part of Ibero-American countries, from it are these classic hits: "Procuro olvidarte" (I try to forget you), "Ven con el alma desnuda" (Come with the naked soul), "Un pasajero" (A passenger), "Insoportablemente bella" (Unbearable beautiful) or "Ese beso que me has dado" (That kiss that you have given me).

"Procuro olvidarte" and the other songs transform him in an international orbit interpreter.

This song, due to its firm and rolling success, has been object of multiple later versions in the voice of other great artists, as: Raphael

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, Rocío Jurado

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, Pandora

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, Ricardo Montaner

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, Simone, Isabel Pantoja

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, José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma"

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 and Raúl Di Blasio

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, Ray Conniff

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, Juan Bau, K-Paz de la Sierra

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, Los Nocheros, Bertín Osborne, José Vélez, Mayte Martin and Tete Montoliú

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, Tania Libertad, Sabú, Falete, Bambino, Grupo Cali, Industria del Amor, Karina, La Apuesta, Los Forasteros, María Dolores Pradera, Sergio Vargas, Wálter Romero, Javiera Parra, José el Francés, Adrián, Arte y Compás, Grupo Algodón, Jean Carlos, José Manuel Soto, Juan Camacho, La Tota Santillán, Mike Rodríguez, Oneil, Pecos Kanvas, Raulin Rosendo, Santaella, Sebastián, Sergio Torres, Virginia Innocenti, María del Monte, and others.