Vamos Is the First Spanish-Language Single From Lola Parks, Recorded in Tenerife
A Bright Latin Pop Love Song From a Canadian Songwriter, Produced by Fabio Harmanus
Vamos means “let’s go” in Spanish, and the title is the whole invitation. Lola Parks released Vamos, a Latin pop single, on 14 February 2025. It was her first record in Spanish, a love song set over synths and beats.
Lola Parks has Vamos in the playlist below, in the company of the Latin pop and reggaeton we follow, and every article about her is gathered on her artist profile. The single reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Give it a spin, then read on for how it was made.
A Valentine’s Day release suits it, because Vamos is about love, desire, romance and longing.
It also arrives at a good moment for the sound. Spanish-language pop is no longer a regional genre that crosses over now and then. Instead, it sits at the centre of global pop. Songwriters from outside the Spanish-speaking world now write for it too. Parks, a singer-songwriter from Langley, British Columbia, is one of them.
Vamos Opened a Spanish-Language Run for Lola Parks, Made With Tenerife Producer Fabio Harmanus
Two people made Vamos in Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands. Parks wrote the lyric and sings it, and the credits use her own name, Sandy Powlik. Fabio Harmanus, a Tenerife producer known for his urban Latin productions, built the record around her voice. He supplied the synthesizer and the beats, plus the composition, production, mix and master. Parks has written that the song would not exist without him. She also wrote the release notes twice, once in English and once in Spanish.
What comes out is playful and polished, with a light touch. Its maker also calls it catchy, uplifting, quirky and dreamy. It runs just under four minutes.
Before these songs, the catalogue lived in English, in soul, folk and Americana with jazz roots. Her albums include No Apologies (2020), The Hustle and Here, and her songs include It’ll Be All Right, inspired by the life and struggles of Billie Holiday. That music has taken her to five continents. It has also earned syncs, including a theme song for CBC’s Early Edition and placements on Fox/Lionsgate TV. So a Latin pop session in the Canary Islands is a bigger step than it looks on a release list.
The Duets That Followed Vamos
As it turned out, Vamos was the start of a run. Parks and Harmanus recorded Dime first, a flirtatious, dance-ready duet, but released it second, in September 2025. Then Sin Tí followed in October, a slower, melancholic reggaeton duet about a couple deciding whether to get back together. They wrote its lyric entirely in Spanish and split it between their two voices. Three Spanish-language releases in eight months make a clear strand in the catalogue, and Vamos is where that strand began. The next single, Nothing but Love in December 2025, turned to reggae, and it is on Apple Music. In September 2026 came a full-band version of It’ll Be All Right.
Shakira, Karol G and Nelly Furtado Show Where Vamos by Lola Parks Fits in Spanish-Language Pop
Parks names Shakira and Karol G as reference points for the sound, and both help explain the move. Shakira crossed in the opposite direction. Dónde Están los Ladrones? had been a success in 1998. Then she learned English well enough to write Laundry Service, her first English-language album, in 2001. Its lead single, Whenever, Wherever, went to number one in Canada, France, Germany and Spain, among others. Her friend Gloria Estefan had encouraged the change, convinced the songs could reach an English-speaking audience.
Karol G shows how far the Spanish-language side of pop has travelled since then. Mañana Será Bonito, her 2023 album, mixes reggaeton and Latin pop and counts Shakira among its guests. It became the first all-Spanish-language album by a woman to reach number one on the US Billboard 200.
The closest precedent, though, is Canadian. In 2009 Nelly Furtado released Mi Plan, her first Spanish-language album, on her own label. She filled it with love songs, and it reached number one on the US Latin Billboard chart. Vamos works the same territory on a smaller scale. It pairs an English-speaking songwriter and a Spanish love lyric with a producer who knows the sound from the inside.
Who Vamos Is For
This single is for listeners who like their pop light on its feet and sung in Spanish, at a party or on a long drive. It also suits Shakira and Karol G fans who want to hear a songwriter try Spanish for the first time. Fans of her soul and folk songs, meanwhile, will hear what changed. After that, play it next to Dime and Sin Tí to hear the partnership with Harmanus grow across a year.
PopHits.News’s curator team: “We placed Vamos in our Latin pop playlist beside reggaeton and Brazilian funk. It earns its place there as the love song of the list.”
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