Los Jaivas is a Chilean musical group who perform in folk, rock, psychedelic, and progressive rock styles formed in 1963 in Viña Del Mar, Chile. They are considered one of the most important and influential artists of all time in Latin America.
Los Tres also known as The Tr3s or The 3, is a Chilean rock band. The band was formed in 1987 in Concepción by Álvaro Henríquez, Roberto Lindl, Francisco Molina and later Ángel Parra Jr. joined. They are one of the most influential rock en español bands.
La Polla Records is a punk rock band from the Basque Country, formed in 1979 in Salvatierra/Agurain, a small town in Álava, Spain. Its founders were Evaristo Páramos "Evaristo" on vocals, Maleguin on bass, Fernandito on drums and Txarly and Sumé on guitars. The name was somewhat controversial because in Spanish, "polla" is vulgarly slang for "cock, penis". The lyrics of the band harshly criticized fascism, militarism, capitalism, and catholicism. La Polla Records has been very influential in the Spanish-language punk scene.
Mojiganga is a Colombian ska punk and Ska-core band from Medellín formed in 1995.
Barón Rojo is a Spanish heavy metal band from Madrid that achieved international success in the 1980s. The band is led by siblings Carlos and Armando de Castro, previously from the band Coz, and is considered one of the most important representatives of Spanish hard rock. Barón Rojo in Spanish means "red baron", the name of the band being an homage to Manfred von Richthofen; the 1981 eponymous song "Barón Rojo" is about him. In 2017, they were ranked number 18 on Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Spanish Rock Bands".
Reincidentes is a Spanish rock/punk rock band. They were formed in the 1980s as Incidente Local, by Manuel Pizarro on drums, Juan Barea on guitar, and Fernando Medina on bass and vocals. They performed their first live concert in 1987 at University of Seville. After they became finalists at a local rock contest and were joined by sax player José Luis Nieto, they recorded their self-titled debut album in 1989 released by '"Discos Trilita". After signing up to the "Discos Suicidas" label and participating in Seville Expo '92, they started touring Central America. Later, Selu left the band and Finito de Badajoz became the new guitarist. In 1997, the band signed to BMG and shortly thereafter their live album Algazara became their first gold record in Spain in 2000.
Los Violadores are a rock band from Argentina, pioneers of the punk rock genre in Latin America.
Los Chichos is a Spanish band that was formed in the mid-1970s by singer-songwriter Juan Antonio Jiménez and brothers Julio and Emilio González. The band reached its peak popularity in the 1980s and restructured in 1990 when Jiménez began his solo career. Los Chichos has sold 20 million records, making it one of the best-selling Spanish groups in history. They performed the popular rumba flamenca in the vein of Los Chunguitos.
Soda Stereo is an Argentinian rock band formed in Buenos Aires in 1982 by Gustavo Cerati, Héctor "Zeta" Bosio (bass) and Carlos Alberto Ficicchia "Charly Alberti" (drums). As the first hispanic group to achieve mainstream success in Latin America, critics have considered the group as one of the most influential and popular Spanish-language rock bands. The band ventured into many styles, such as "música divertida" in their beginnings, new wave, darkwave, hard rock, alternative rock and electronic rock during their final years.
Parchís was a children's music group from Spain which enjoyed great success in the Spanish-speaking world in the 1980s. Their significance in Hispanic popular culture comes from being perceived as an archetype of this type of band at the time. Parchís' original five members were Constantino Fernández Fernández, Yolanda Ventura Román, Oscar Ferrer Cañadas, Gemma Prat Termens, and David Muñoz Forcada. After several line-up changes, the group disbanded in 1982 with various members continuing successful careers in the world of entertainment.
El Cuarteto de Nos is an Uruguayan rock group formed in 1980 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Over the years, due to its particular sound that mixes elements of hip hop, alternative rock, comedy rock and Latin music, the group has developed an immense amount of popularity and praise in Latin America and Hispanic countries.
El Concierto Sinfónico is the second live album by the Puerto Rican rock band Fiel a la Vega and their fourth album overall. The album was recorded with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in Santurce, Puerto Rico, during the concerts the band held from March 26 to 28, 2001. It was released later that year.
El Ritmo Mundial Released in 1988 is the third studio album of the Argentine Ska, Reggae band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Recorded and edited in 1988, in this album the band expand their musical range to more commercials genres to the age. The album now include the classic Ska along with the apparition of a couple of ballads "Siempre me Hablaste de Ella" and "No. 2 en tu Lista".
The Popular University of Cesar, is a public, departmental, coeducational university based primarily in the city of Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia.
Fabiana Cantilo is an Argentine singer-songwriter. She has sold more than 6 million records in her career.
La dicha en movimiento is the first album by Argentine pop rock band Los Twist, released in 1983. In 2007, the Argentine edition of Rolling Stone ranked it 15 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock".
Los Número Uno: Éxitos 1968-2003 (2003) is the twentieth album and second compilation album by Mexican Rock, Blues band El Tri. Going back to the end of the Sixties when the band was only a trio known as Three Souls in my Mind the compilation take a couple of songs 30 years old as well as hits up to the latest albums.
Burbles was a Cuban rock band in the early 1990s. The band, formed mainly by Carlos Cobas and Raul Barroso, had a significant success among the rock bands in Cuba. "Canción por los Perros"(Song for Dogs),"Soy como no quiero" , “La alegría del mundo","Gaviotas en el mar", among others, were some of its most popular songs.
No Matarás is the name of an Argentinian band in the punk genre, formed in the years around 1990 in Buenos Aires, and currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Carlos Taibo Arias is a writer, editor, and retired professor of political science at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
