Mayito

Mayito Rivera, of Los Van Van, sings one of his signature tunes, ¡Qué Sorpresa! (What a Surprise!--available on their Lo Ultimo en Vivo disc), in this video clip filmed at Yoshi's San Francisco on December 12, 2010. He told us, from the stage, that this was the first song Juan Formell wrote for him specifically after he joined the group in 1992. Mayito made it a classic, with the coro: "Voy a publicar tu foto en la prensa" and "me dio agua caliente, agua salada, de madrugada", lamenting his chica's unfaithful behavior and his desire for revenge. He never really comes right out and says it. Everything is cloaked in metaphor except the part about publishing her picture in the newspaper-he, he. Check it out.