They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)

"They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)"
Single by Sting
from the album ...Nothing Like the Sun
B-side	"Ellas Danzan Solas"
Released	2 September 1988[1]
Recorded	1987
Genre	Rock jazz world
Length	7:16
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Gordon Sumner
Producer(s)	Gordon Sumner
Sting singles chronology
"Fragile" (1988) "They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)" (1988) "All This Time" (1991)
Music video
"Sting - They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)" on YouTube

"They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)" is a protest song composed by English musician Sting and published first on his 1987 album ...Nothing Like the Sun; the song was the fifth and final single released from the album. The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands.

Sting was accompanied by Eric Clapton, Fareed Haque and Mark Knopfler on guitar, by Branford Marsalis on the saxophone, and with Rubén Blades providing additional Spanish vocals.