Mecano was a Spanish pop band formed in 1981 and active until 1992. Mecano became one of the most successful Spanish pop bands of all time. The band is still the best-selling Spanish band, with over 20 million records worldwide. They were considered by some to be avant-garde for their time and part of la Movida Madrileña countercultural movement. They had a brief comeback in 1998.
Vicente Amigo Girol is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist, born in Guadalcanal near Seville. He has played as an accompanying guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers Camarón de la Isla, and Luis de Córdoba, and he has acted as a producer for Remedios Amaya and José Mercé. His album Ciudad de las Ideas won the 2001 Latin Grammy for the Best Flamenco Album and the 2002 Ondas award for the best Flamenco work.
Ana Torroja Fungairiño, 3rd Marchioness of Torroja, is a Spanish singer. She was the lead singer of the pop trio Mecano, considered one of the most popular pop bands from Spain during the 1980s and 1990s. Mecano split in 1998 and she embarked on a solo career.
José María Cano Andrés is a Spanish visual artist, musician, composer, and record producer. From 1982 to 1998, he was a member and principal composer of the Spanish pop-rock band Mecano. Since 1998, he works primarily in the visual arts.
Hoy no me puedo levantar is a Spanish jukebox musical, with music and lyrics by José María Cano and Nacho Cano, former members of the band Mecano. Based on 32 of the band's greatest hits and named after their first single, the musical centers on a pair of impoverished musicians trying to be part of La Movida Madrileña, after the fall of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Through an analysis of the 1980s, the musical portrays the condition of these boys trying to survive in Madrid, under the shadow of drugs and AIDS. The musical ran for four seasons in Madrid's Rialto Theatre and for three seasons in Mexico City's Centro Cultural Telmex and Teatro Aldama. It was produced by Drive in Spain and OCESA Teatro in Mexico.
Mecano is the eponymous debut studio album recorded by Spanish synth-pop band Mecano, released on April 5, 1982, under the label Discos CBS.
María José Loyola Anaya, known professionally as María José is a Mexican singer, ballerina, flamenco dancer, athlete and television personality. Her career started at age 15, in the 1990s, when she joined the iconic Mexican band Kabah as a vocalist. After leaving the band in 2006, she continued her successful solo career, having released six studio albums to-date.
¿Dónde está el país de las hadas? is the second album recorded by Spanish synth-pop band Mecano, in 1983. The album was produced by Jorge Álvarez and Mecano.
Ya Viene el Sol is the third studio album by the Spanish synth-pop band Mecano, released on October 16, 1984 by CBS Discos. The album was the beginning of a more sophisticated and mature sound. It included new sounds in the band's music, utilising the Fairlight CMI, a digital sampling synthesiser. After this album, the band assumed the production of their records from the start. This album includes the only song that the band's lead vocalist Ana Torroja wrote with the band ("Mosquito"). The importance of the songs written by José María Cano and the fact that, for the first time, one of his songs was released as a single - and became the biggest hit of the summer - kept the band together, since at this point he was considering leaving the band.
Lo Último de Mecano is a compilation album by the Spanish band Mecano.
Descanso dominical is the fifth studio album by Spanish pop band Mecano. It was released on May 24, 1988, in Spain and Spanish America, 1989 in Italy and 1990 in France under Ariola Records. This was the album that reaffirmed their stardom as worldwide artists. Before its release, this album was intended to be a 2-disc album due to the large amount of material, but that intent was cancelled. The album is also known in France as Une Femme Avec Une Femme and as Figlio della Luna in Italy. The title of the album was taken from a line in the fifth single "El blues del eslavo".
Aidalai is an album by pop group Mecano. It was released in 1991 and produced by the group. Its launch was in the middle of rumors of the separation of the group due to differences between Nacho Cano and José María Cano. It was their third release with Ariola Records. The title refers to a game word: Aidalai → ¡Ay Dalai!, meaning in English something like Oh Dalai!.
Ana José Nacho is a compilation album by the group Mecano. It was released in 1998, and was produced by the group itself. There are two editions: Spain and France. It includes 8 new songs by the brothers Cano: José and Nacho; these tracks were recorded in CTS Studios and Belsize Park in London; and Red Led and Eurosonic in Madrid.
Javier Godino is a Spanish actor.
Ignacio Cano Andrés, better known as Nacho Cano, is a Spanish arranger, composer, musician and record producer. He and his brother showed an interest in music in their young lives. At 5, he began to play the Spanish guitar and at 12 he started his first band called "Prisma", with Toti Arboles and Eduardo Benavente, both of whom would later make up the core of the sociocultural movement that took place in Spain after Franco's death, known as the "Movida Madrileña". After playing in several different bands in his early teens, Nacho formed Mecano with his brother Jose and his brother's friend Ana Torroja. At 16, Nacho wrote "Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar". Mecano signed their first record deal with CBS, when Nacho was 17 years old. This first album smashed all sales records in Spain, selling 1,000,000 copies in three months.
Gonzalo Alcaín is a Spanish singer and musical actor. He has been one of the contestants on the second season of the musical talent show The Voice in Spain.
Los Secretos are a Spanish rock band founded in Madrid in 1978 and often associated with the movida madrileña movement.
Olé Olé was a popular Spanish band of the 1980s. The group went through three phases of popularity broadly coinciding with three female vocalists. The group began with singer Vicky Larraz (1982–1985). After Larraz went solo came Marta Sánchez (1986–1991) in years that saw increasing success in Latin America. After Sánchez also went solo came the third singer es:Sonia Santana (1992–1993).
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.
"Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar" is the debut single by Spanish band Mecano released in June 1981. The song is from their 1982 self-titled debut album.
