María de los Ángeles Felisa Santamaría Espinosa, professionally known as Massiel, is a Spanish pop and protest singer, actress, and songwriter. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la", being the first performer from Spain to ever win the contest.
La Renga is an Argentine hard rock band, formed in 1988.
Catupecu Machu is an Argentine rock band, usually classified as within Rock en Español. Its current band members are Fernando Ruiz Díaz on vocals and guitar; Charlie Noguera on bass guitar; Agustín Rocino and Julian Gondell on drums; and Macabre González on keyboards and samplers.
Ismael Serrano is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Spain, popular in Spain and Latin America, known for his often political lyrics and eclectic musical influences. During his creative career he has been influenced by other Spanish singer-songwriters such as Joaquín Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat and the Cuban Silvio Rodríguez amongst others. His music also shows influences from renowned poets such as Luis García Montero and Mario Benedetti.
The winners of the Second Annual Latin Grammy Awards were announced during a press conference on Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at the Conga Room in Los Angeles, California. The conference, which was broadcast live on the internet, was hosted by Jimmy Smits and Paul Rodriguez. Alejandro Sanz was the big winner winning four awards including Album of the Year. Juanes won three awards including Best New Artist.
Los Piojos were an Argentine rock band. Extremely popular, it became one of the seminal bands of the 1990s Argentine music scene.
Bailando En Una Pata is the third album by the Argentine hard rock band La Renga. It contains songs from Esquivando Charcos performed live and recorded at the Arena Obras Sanitarias. It was edited in "El Pie" Studios in July, 1995. The album has a live cover of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" but the title appears in Spanish and a new song at the time: El Viento Que Todo Empuja. The studio version of this song appears in 1996's album Despedazado por Mil Partes. The album achieved 2× platinum status in Argentina for selling over 120,000 copies.
InsoportablemENte VIVO is the seventh album and the second live album by the rock band La Renga. It was recorded at the Huracán Athletic Club stadium on May 19, 2001. It has two unedited songs: Un Tiempo Fuera De Casa and Oportunidad Oportuna. It achieved 2× platinum status in Argentina for sales in excess of 80,000 copies.
Esquivando Charcos is the first album by Argentine band La Renga. Until 1991 it was only available in cassette and it was not available in music shops, although the live versions of these songs can be heard in the album Bailando En Una Pata. It was recorded, distributed and produced in a totally independent way by the band.
Marcelo Chimento was an Argentine actor who made several appearances in film and television in Argentina in the 1970s and early 1980s.
El Tren De Los Momentos: En Vivo Desde Buenos Aires is the third live album by the Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz. It was recorded during the concert offered in front of 45,000 people in the River Plate Stadium on March 23, 2007. The album, released in digipack format, contains a CD with a selection of 10 tracks of the concert and a DVD of two hours.
Banda Cuisillos de Arturo Macías, or simply Banda Cuisillos, are a Mexican banda group from the city of Cuisillos, Jalisco. They are well known for wearing Native American costumes in their stage performances and album photographs as a tribute to their ethnic heritage. Also, unlike most brass bandas, they incorporate a piano and electric guitar into some of their songs.
Los Yonic's are a Mexican grupero band formed in 1975.
Airbag is an Argentine hard rock band formed in Buenos Aires in 1999, consisting of three brothers: Patricio Sardelli, Gastón Sardelli, and Guido Sardelli. They have released seven studio albums and one live album, and tour mostly around Latin America.
Colección Definitiva is a collection from 20 years of singing from Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz with WEA Latina. Alejandro's greatest works from Viviendo deprisa (1991) to Paraíso Express (2009) are in this album. Sanz released this album because after 20 years working with WEA Latina, He signed a contract with Universal Music Group. "Colección Definitiva" included 4 CD and 1 DVD. On 2 CDs, There are all duets and collaborations sanz made with other artist like Shakira, El Canto Del Loco, Joaquín Sabina, Miguel Bosé and The Corrs. and there is DVD, which includes all Alejandro Sanz's music videos up-to-date with additional content.
No Es Lo Mismo Tour is a concert tour by Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz as promoting his album No Es Lo Mismo.
Paulina García Alfonso, better known as Pali García, is a Chilean actress, stage director, and playwright.
Alberto Amado Ribero, known professionally as Tito Ribero, was an Argentine film score composer, composer, singer, and musician. In addition to having his own orchestra, he provided the film scores to over 200 movies, at his most prolific in the 1950s and 1960s. For Del otro lado del puente he won the Silver Condor Award for Best Original Score from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences in 1953.
Anabel Gutiérrez Aicua was a Mexican actress and comedian. Her most memorable works included her participation in the film School for Tramps (1955), as well as her appearances on the program Chespirito (1970), playing the character of Doña Espotaverderona in some sketches.
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in Latin music in the 1980s, namely in Ibero-America. This includes recordings, festivals, award ceremonies, births and deaths of Latin music artists, and the rise and fall of various subgenres in Latin music from 1980 to 1989.
