One-hit wonders Antonio Monge & Rafael Ruiz

Although these two Spanish musicians were never all that famous by name in the United States, the name of their duo act was : Los del Rio (the river people, or those from the river). Their one big hit in the United States was a 4 million seller dance song: Macarena, from 1996.

The song was about a sexy woman in the Spanish city of Seville. It as written for a flamenco performer, and the name in the song was originally Ma'dalena, from Spanish slang that intimated sexuality and was an oblique reference to the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene, said to have been a one-time prostitute. Its U.S. popularity reached its peak in 1996 after the Engish-language cover done by the Bayside Boys. Just the same, this dance number is said to have made its two originators an enormous amount of money.