Así Fue

"Así Fue" ("That's the Way it Went" or "How it Was" or "It is what it is") is a song written and produced by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel and performed by Spanish singer Isabel Pantoja. It was released in 1988 as the second single from her studio album Desde Andalucía (1988). The song tells of the singer dealing with her ex-lover after she has a new fiancé. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States, and was the fifth best-performing Spanish-language single of 1989 in the US. The song's composer, Juan Gabriel, performed a live rendition of the song at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City which was recorded and released as a live album titled Celebrando 25 Años de Juan Gabriel: En Concierto en el Palacio de Bellas Artes (1998).

De Juan Gabriel's 1998 version was released as a single from the live album and reached No. 3 on the Hot Latin Songs chart. It was the best-performing Spanish-language single of 1998 in the US, and won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Latin Award for "Super Song of the Year" in 1999. The track was well received by music critics, who called it one of Juan Gabriel's best compositions. "Así Fue" has been performed and recorded by several other artists, including Toño Rosario, Playa Limbo, and Jenni Rivera. Rosario and Playa Limbo's versions led to Juan Gabriel winning another ASCAP Latin Award for their covers, while Playa Limbo received a nomination for Pop Song of the Year at the 22nd Annual Lo Nuestro Awards in 2010.