Aguanilé

"Aguanilé" (Watered Down) is a song taken from Roberto Faz's song "Para gozar la vida" by American-Puerto Rican trombonist Willie Colón and Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe and being recorded by themselves as the first single from their seventh studio album El Juicio released in 1972.

[1] Its origin comes from the Yoruba culture in Cuba and means "spiritual cleansing for your house" perhaps referring to Lavoe's drug problems.

The song has a small verse that is interpreted by Lavoe in Greek: "Kyrie eleison", which means: "Lord have mercy", belonging to the ordinary of the mass.

It fuses the sound of contemporary Boogaloo and incorporates Latin percussion instruments the timbales, congas, maracas, trombones and the trumpet.

[3] American singer-songwriter Marc Anthony recorded a cover version of the song for his soundtrack album El Cantante in 2007.