La Bonita

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La Isla Bonita
Single by Madonna
from the album True Blue
Released February 25, 1987
Format 7, 12
Recorded 1986
Genre Latin pop
Length 4:02 (album version)
3:47 (radio edit)
Label Sire, Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Madonna, Patrick Leonard, Bruce Gaitsch
Producer Madonna, Patrick Leonard
Madonna singles chronology
Open Your Heart
(1986) La Isla Bonita
(1987) Who's That Girl
(1987)
Aliz'ee Singles chronology
Fifty-Sixty
(2008) La Isla Bonita
(2008) Les Collines (Never Leave You)
(2010)

La Isla Bonita (English: The Beautiful Island) is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released as the fifth and final single from her third studio album, True Blue, on February 25, 1987, by Sire Records. Originally written as a lament, the song was first offered to Michael Jackson before Madonna accepted it and re-wrote the lyrics with Patrick Leonard. La Isla Bonita is noted for being the first Madonna song to have a Spanish influence in it, with arrangements of Cuban drums and Spanish guitar, maracas, harmonicas and a mix of synthesized and real drumming. The lyrics of the song tell about a beautiful island and was a tribute to the beauty of the Latin people according to Madonna.

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