Track 9 'Trapped By Love' by Manu Chao from his 2001 album Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (Next Stop: Hope). There are seventeen songs on the record, one in French, one in Portuguese, one in Arabic, two in English, nine in Spanish and two in Portuñol ("A jumble of Portuguese and Spanish, invented by people living in the border zones - my favorite places!").

Manu Chao was born in Paris, on June 21, 1961, into a family of Spanish Republican exiles living in France. In 1980, while still living with his family, Manu formed Joint de Culasse, along with a few friends. It was a rock band influenced by punk rock (The Clash), rockabilly and R&B. Joint de Culasse later changed its name to Hot Pants, and adopted a slight Latin feel after a stay in Manu's Spanish motherland. Hot Pants' album, Loco Mosquito, was released during this period.

From 1985 through 1995, Manu wrote and sang most of the songs that made up the albums of his next band, Mano Negra. This group turned out to be the hippest and most biting 'combo-gang' to have come out of France's crossbred culture. The result was nearly three million copies sold (one-third outside France) and legendary stage shows as far afield as South America (with the 'Cargo' tour at the beginning of the 1990s).

In 1995 Mano Negra disbanded. Interested in his Spanish roots, Manu moved to Madrid, Spain's hotbed for mestizo (crossbred) culture. In Madrid, Manu hooked up with local musicians and formed a new group, Radio Bemba. Radio Bemba means 'bush telegraph' or 'word-of-mouth' in Santo Domingo slang.