In the song "The Angel Song" by Great White...what or who is "El Derado"?

Question

There's a line in the song that goes something like "glistening like El Derado's halls" and I never knew what they are talking about.

Answer 1

El Dorado (Spanish for 'the gilded one') is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water.

As the story was told and re-told, El Dorado came to be viewed as a city containing immense wealth, a legend that inspired many explorers from the 1500s on.