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Pereza
Pereza (Spanish for “laziness”) was a Spanish rock group from Alameda de Osuna (Madrid) comprising Rubén Pozo Prats and José Miguel Conejo Torres, artistically known as Rubén and Leiva. They have recorded six albums ''Pereza'', ''Algo para cantar'' (Something to Sing), ''Animales'' (Animals), ''Los amigos de los animales'' (The Animals’ Friends), ''Aproximaciones'' (Approximations) released in the summer of 2007, Aviones (Aeroplanes), released in August 2009, and a last compilation that includes two previously unreleased discs: “Mama Quiero Ser una Estrella del Rock'n’Roll” (Mama I Want to be a Rock’n’Roll Star) and “Baires”, recorded and mixed in Argentina. The group has also released two DVDs. The first was called ''Algo para encantar'' (Something to Enchant) and it contains videos from their previous album ''Algo para cantar'' and some live tracks. The second DVD is called ''Barcelona'', which is a recording of a live concert in that city along with a CD c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leiva (singer)
José Miguel Conejo Torres (born in Madrid, 30 April 1980), better known by his artistic name Leiva, is a Spanish singer, musician and songwriter. Between 2001 and 2010 he led with Ruben Pozo the Spanish rock band Pereza, with which he recorded 6 albums. After the dissolution of the band, he started a solo career with 3 charting solo albums: ''Diciembre'' in 2012, ''Pólvora'' in 2014 and ''Monstruos'' in 2016. Biography Leiva was born and raised in the neighborhood of Alameda de Osuna, in the northeast suburbs of Madrid. His great love of football coupled with his strong resemblance to Leivinha, a Brazilian footballer who at the time played for Atlético de Madrid, earned him the nickname Leiva. He would later use it as his stage name. In Pereza His first musical activity was in 1994, as he became part of the Malahierba band in which he was a drummer. In 1998 he formed a trio band together with Rubén Pozo and drummer Tuli with the intention of making cover versions of Leño. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laboratorio Ñ
Laboratorio Ñ was an initiative of the Spanish musicians Iván Ferreiro (ex member of Los Piratas), Quique González and Xoel López ( Deluxe), that took part between 8th and 22 November 2005. These musicians met in the house-musical study ''El Cielito'', 30 km from Buenos Aires, to compose music together. Some other musicians also took part: from Spain Amaral and Pereza, and from Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ... ( Bersuit, which was only for the welcome, Súper Ratones and Lisandro Aristimuño), but nevertheless the initial plan the only musicians really involved were the promoters of the lab. The project was a collaboration with SGAE. References * # 74 of the magazine Efe Eme (December 2005) * # 74 of the Rolling Stone, Spanish edition (De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaral (band)
Amaral is a Spanish rock duo from Zaragoza, who have sold more than four million albums worldwide. The band consists of Eva Amaral (vocals) and Juan Aguirre (guitar), who write their songs together. The two met in 1992 in a bar in Zaragoza. Amaral played drums in a local punk rock band called Bandera Blanca and also sang with Acid Rain. Aguirre was playing with a band called Días de Vino y Rosas at the time. Soon after they met, the two decided to play together and perform their own material. In 1997, they moved to Madrid and signed a major deal with EMI. Amaral's musical style is categorized ad pop rock, but it is often fused with Latin beats, folk rock, synthesizers, poetic lyrics, and in particular, traditional Spanish folk music. Aguirre was born in San Sebastián (also known as Donostia), in the Guipúzcoa province of Spain. He spent his childhood in the town of , while Amaral originates from Zaragoza. Inspirations for their songs include cinema, friends, and literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riff
A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition. Riffs are most often found in rock music, punk, heavy metal music, Latin, funk, and jazz, although classical music is also sometimes based on a riff, as in Ravel's Boléro. Riffs can be as simple as a tenor saxophone honking a simple, catchy rhythmic figure, or as complex as the riff-based variations in the head arrangements played by the Count Basie Orchestra. David Brackett (1999) defines riffs as "short melodic phrases", while Richard Middleton (1999) defines them as "short rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic figures repeated to form a structural framework". Author Rikky Rooksby states: "A riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low on the guitar, which focuses much of the energy and excitement of a rock song." BBC Radio 2, in compiling its list of 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs, defined a riff as the "main hook of a song", often beginning the song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Boston in 1970. The group consists of lead vocalist Steven Tyler, bassist Tom Hamilton (musician), Tom Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarists Joe Perry (musician), Joe Perry and Brad Whitford. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has also incorporated elements of pop rock, heavy metal music, heavy metal, glam metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many subsequent rock artists. Aerosmith is sometimes referred to as "the Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band".Whatever there is to say now about Aerosmith, the long-lasting, hard-rocking quintet that has often been billed or hyped as America's greatest rock and roll band, it could have been said two decades ago. The primary songwriting team of Tyler and Perry is sometimes referred to as the "Toxic Twins". Perry and Hamilton were originally in a band together, the Jam Band, where they met up with Tyler, Kramer, guitari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Petty
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the leader and frontman of the Rock music, rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup (music), supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist. Over the course of his career, Petty sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the Best-selling artist of all time, best-selling artists of all time. His hit singles with the Heartbreakers include "American Girl (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song), American Girl" (1976), "Don't Do Me Like That" (1979), "Refugee (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song), Refugee" (1980), "The Waiting (song), The Waiting" (1981), "Don't Come Around Here No More" (1985) and "Learning to Fly (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song), Learning to Fly" (1991). Petty's solo hits include "I Won't Back Down" (1989), "Free Fallin'" (1989), and "You Don't Kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year career. With an estimated more than 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning Counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture. Dylan was born in St. Louis County, Minnesota. He moved to New York City in 1961 to pursue a career in music. Following his 1962 debut album, ''Bob Dylan (album), Bob Dylan'', featuring traditional folk and blues material, he released his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Martín (singer)
Daniel Martín García (born 19 February 1977) is a Spanish singer. He was the vocalist of the pop punk band El Canto del Loco (ECDL). Biography He was born on 19 February 1977 in Alcobendas, a city in the province of Madrid. When he was a child, he used to imitate his favorite artists in the living room and started to dream about creating his own band. As he was not a really good student, he started to work with his father and, at the same time, he began to study at the Drama School William Layton. Later, Dani decided to attend prestigious Drama School Cristina Rota, where he got his first jobs as a stage actor. The first time he appeared on television was with Martes y 13 in a show prepared for New Year's Eve. Then, he presented a program called ''Ponte las Pilas''. He has acted in several films, such as ''Sirenas'' by Fernando Leon de Aranoa, ''Sin vergüenza'' by Joaquín Oristrell, Auger Carlos Villaverde, Manuel Sanabria, and ''Yo soy la Juani'' by Bigas Luna. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Summers Rodríguez
David Summers Rodríguez (born 26 February 1964) is a Spanish musician who is the lead vocalist and bassist of the pop/rock band Hombres G. Early and personal life Summers was born in the Chamberí district of Madrid, Spain, to Manuel Summers Rivero, a Spanish film director and screenwriter of partial English descent, and Consuelo Rodríguez Marquez on 26 February 1964. Summers married Marta Madruga on 18 January 1992 and they're the parents of twins, Daniel and Lucía, born in 2000. Madruga played the role of Summers' girlfriend in the 1987 film ''Sufre Mamón'' and it is speculated that she is the subject of such songs as " Marta tiene un marcapasos".. In 2024, Summers married Christine Cambeiro, an American expat. Career The band When Summers was in his late teens, he and three other friends formed a group by the name of Molina formed a second group called "La Burguesía Revolucionaria". However, the three alone were not successful. Summers then met Rafael Gutierrez i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Piratas (band)
Los Piratas was a Spanish rock band from Vigo, founded in 1991. They were considered one of the most influential groups in the Rock music in Spain, pop and Rock music in Spain, rock scenes in Spain. They released five studio albums (one of them a Music recording certification, gold record), two live albums, three Compilation album, compilations and four albums of rarities, before disbanding in 2004. The band's influences included Björk, Aphex Twin, Los Planetas, Radiohead, Oasis (band), Oasis and 1980s Spanish pop. The group was in both the mainstream and Independent music, independent scenes, and evolved from pop rock to a sound with electronic touches and greater musical maturity. Their lyrics were initially about relationships, frustrated loves and loves to come, and later became darker and deeper. History Creation and early years (1989–1994) The band was founded in Vigo, Galicia (Spain) in 1989, when Iván Ferreiro and Paco Serén decide to create a group they call ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
