Yolanda Be Cool
Yolanda Be Cool is an Australian band made up of Sylvester Martinez and Johnson Peterson. They collaborated with Australian producer DCUP (real name Duncan MacLennan) to release an international single "We No Speak Americano" on the indie Australian label Sweat It Out they founded, sampling on a 1956 hit "Tu vuò fà l'americano" by Renato Carosone and written by Carosone and Nicola "Nisa" Salerno.
"We No Speak Americano" topped the German, Austrian, Irish, UK, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Belgian charts1 so far, and reached the Top 5 in Australia, France, Spain and Norway. It was also a chart hit in Italy, New Zealand, Argentina and several other countries. The video was directed by Andy Hylton at Lutimedia.
Prior to the hit, they had collaborated with DCUP when he remixed their hit "Afro Nuts" in 2009.
The name is a reference to the film "Pulp Fiction", where the character Jules (played by Samuel L. Jackson) shouts "Yolanda be cool" to a female armed robber named Yolanda (played by Amanda Plummer).
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Discography
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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| ARG | AUS | BEL | BRA | CAN | DEN | ESP | FIN | GER | AUT | SUI | IRL | ITA | NED | NZL | NOR | SWE | ROM | RUS | UK | US Dance | |||
| 2009 | "Afro Nuts" | - | - | - | – | – | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| "Holy Cow" | - | - | - | – | – | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2010 | "We No Speak Americano" | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 2 | 1 | 50 | |