Son de Amores

About the song

«Son de amores» is the song that introduced Andy & Lucas to the whole of Spain. It belongs to «Andy & Lucas», the debut album of the duo from Cádiz, released by Sony BMG on 27 May 2003, and it soon became one of the songs of that Spanish summer. More than twenty years later it is still the title most people think of when they hear the duo's name, and the official video on the group's YouTube channel had passed 238 million views in October 2026.

Andy & Lucas are Andrés Morales Troncoso, known as Andy, and Lucas González Gómez, known as Lucas. Both were born in Cádiz in 1982, Andy in April and Lucas in September. They met at school in their home city, and their friendship grew into a musical partnership. Their sound mixes Spanish pop with the guitars, handclaps and rhythms of flamenco and rumba, a style that filled Spanish radio in the early two thousands. The debut album was produced by Alejo Stivel, the Argentine-born singer of the Madrid band Tequila, who by then had become a successful record producer.

The song was written by Lucas, who is credited as its author in the chart listings, and according to the Spanish-language Wikipedia it was inspired by a romantic disappointment. The narrator speaks to a young woman whom people have seen crying alone in the streets late at night, after her boyfriend has left her. He tries to comfort her: he asks her to stop crying, tells her that she is worth much more than this story and promises that one day someone will give her the love she dreams of. The chorus is a long list of the faces of love: love that hurts, love that makes people laugh or cry, love that tells lies, love that weighs on you, love that plays games and love that is simply not there.

The arrangement rests on Spanish guitars and a light rhythm that invites people to dance, with the two voices joining in the chorus. It is a sad story told over a cheerful beat, a contrast that helps to explain why it worked so well on the radio and at parties, and why, two decades later, a new generation discovered it again through a dance on social media.

For a learner of Spanish, «Son de amores» is a very useful song. The imperative of «tú» comes back again and again (perdona, deja, piensa, sécate), together with the negative imperative, which uses the present subjunctive (no llores, no te veas). It shows «dejar de» + infinitive to say that someone stops doing something and «volver a» + infinitive for an action that happens again. Several tenses appear in a short space: the present perfect for recent news (han comentado, han visto, ha dejado), the imperfect for past habits (favorecía, hacía, tenías), the preterite (tragó) and the simple future (dará, volverá). The lyric also offers the affectionate diminutive «lagrimillas» (little tears), the colloquial adjective «mona» (cute), the expression «altas horas» for the middle of the night and the concessive «y eso que», which means «even though». In the chorus the relative pronoun «que» follows the noun «amores» line after line, a perfect model of a relative clause.