Ciega, Sordomuda

"Blind, Deaf, Mute")[1] is a song by Colombian singer Shakira from her fourth studio album, Dónde Están los Ladrones?

A pop rock track, it utilizes mariachi trumpets and lyrically equates total love to a person being blind, deaf, and mute.

"Ciega Sordomuda" received positive reactions from music critics, who praised the instruments used and compared it to Shakira's breakout hit "Estoy Aquí".

After rising to prominence with the success of her major-label debut album Pies Descalzos (1995), Shakira was introduced to Emilio Estefan, the most important producer in the Hispanic market at the time, by her promoter and longtime friend, Jairo Martínez.

But many people wag their finger and tell me that the next one cannot take so long..."[3] "Ciega, Sordomuda" was composed by Shakira with Colombian musician Estéfano,[5] with production being handled by the singer and Lester Méndez.

"[7][8] Musically, "Ciega, Sordomuda" is a pop rock song that equates "total love to being blind, deaf, and mute" and incorporates mariachi trumpets at various points, arrangements which were composed by Shakira herself.

[10] John Lannert of Billboard noted that the track "strongly resembles" to her breakout hit, "Estoy Aquí" (1995).

[11] The Dallas Morning News critic Mario Tarradell regarded "Ciega, Sordomuda" as "an obvious first single" with its "jittery pop-rock feel" and also made a comparison to "Estoy Aquí".

[12] Mark Kemp, writing for the book The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, felt that the artist "pays tribute to her Latin roots in the Spanish guitars and trumpets".

[13] The Latin Beat Magazine editor Franz Reynold called the song a "mid-tempo rocker dedicated to the horrors of emotional co-dependency-with mariachi-style brass flitting in and out of the spare vocal and the airy strum of guitars.

[21] In the US, "Ciega Sordomuda" debuted at number seven on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart on the week of 24 October 1998.

[42] As part of The Latin Recording Academy tribute to Shakira, who was presented with the Person of the Year accolade in 2011, Mexican singer Alejandro Guzmán and Spanish musician Natalia Jiménez performed "Ciega, Sordomuda" as a duet.

The song was covered by Croatian singer Vesna Pisarović under the title "Da je meni (oko moje)".