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They Dance Alone
"They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)" is a protest song composed by English musician Sting and published first on his 1987 album "...Nothing Like the Sun"; the song was the fifth and final single released from the album. The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands.
Sting was accompanied by Eric Clapton, Fareed Haque and Mark Knopfler on
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