 In 1993 , Dominican merengue musician Fernando Villalona covered the song on his album , El Nino <unk> and released it as the album 's first single . His version peaked at number 32 on the Hot Latin Songs chart . In 1997 , it appeared on his compilation album Historia de Una Vida . Stephen Erlewine of Allmusic considered the song to be " one of his finest " in his career . 
