"Cuando" (English: "When") is a song written and performed by Guatemalan singer-songwriter

Ricardo Arjona Edgar Ricardo Arjona Morales (born 19 January 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona (), is a Guatemalan singer and songwriter. He is one of the most successful and best-selling Latin American artists of all time, with more than 20 million records sold ...

for his eighth studio album, '' Galería Caribe'' (2000). It was released as the album's

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in 2000. It became his second number-one song on both the ''Billboard''

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and

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charts in the United States. A pop version was also recorded for the album as well as a Portuguese-language version titled "Quando". The song was inspired by an Internet chat Arjona had with a woman. Michael Paloetta of ''Billboard'' magazine called it "dreamy". The

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for the song was filmed in Barcelona, Spain and directed by Pedro Aznar.

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