Marcia Baïla was recorded by the French duo Les Rita Mitsouko. It was dedicated to a dancer with the band who died in 1981, this song was a big hit both in France and abroad and can be considered as being one of the band's signature songs.
The song was composed by both members of the group, Catherine Ringer and Fred Chichin. It's a tribute to Argentine dancer and choreographer Marcia Moretto, who participated in the band's tours before her death from breast cancer in 1983 at the age of 36.
Philippe Gautier directed the vibrant and widely viewed music video that accompanies the song and gathered in a global concept representative of the arts of its time, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler for the costumes and graffiti painters from the 'Figuration libre' movement as well as Xavier Veilhan for the set design.
In 1997, the song was covered in Spanish by Los Del Sol. Gloria Lasso covered the song under the title "Baïlando con Marcia". In 1998, Ricky Martin covered the song on his album Vuelve, on which it features as the 11th track. Christer Björkman also made a version of the song, released as a single in 2002. The French band Nouvelle Vague covered this song for their fourth album 'Couleurs sur Paris', released in 2010.