Alberto y Los Trios Paraguayos was a

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from

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formed by

Luis Alberto del Paraná Luis Alberto del Paraná (21 June 1926 – 15 September 1974) was a Paraguayan singer and guitarist. During the fifties, sixties and early seventies, he traveled extensively around the globe with his group Los Paraguayos, popularizing Paraguayan ...

, with

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(1919–1984) and

Agustín Barboza Agustín Pío Barboza (5 May 1913 – 18 December 1998) was a Paraguayan singer and composer. Biography Childhood and youth Barboza was born in Asunción, Paraguay. While still an adolescent in 1929, he went to Buenos Aires to work as a seaman ...

. They toured the UK in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and released a number of UK records in the 1960s, on

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in Europe, and

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in the United States. In expanded form beyond trio the group included performers of the accordion, orchestral harp, as well as guitars. The band leader, del Paraná, died in England in 1974. The comedy

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Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias were an English comedy rock band, formed in Manchester, England in 1973. Their story is told in CP Lee's book ''When We Were Thin'' (published 2007 by Hotun Press). The name of the band is a corruption of the Pa ...

, from the 1970s took their name from a satirical version of this band's name.

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