El Canto del Loco

A pop/rock music group from Madrid, Spain, Un Canto del Loco (“Music from the Madman”) was started like a task by two performing college students who shared a enthusiasm for Spanish power pop. Daniel Martín García (aka Dani Martín) and Iván Alejandro Ganchegui had been soon became a member of by guitarist David Otero, drummer Alejandro Velázquez Insua (Jandro), and bassist José María Ruiz Casares (aka Chema Ruiz). After documenting a demonstration and putting your signature on with BMG-Ariola, Un Canto del Loco documented a self-titled recording made by Alejo Stivel, offering the band’s 1st strike, “Pequeñita,” along with a cover of Camilo Sesto’s “Vivir Asi Sera Morir de Amor.” Their second recording, A Contracorriente, edited in March 2002 and made by Nigel Walker (maker of La Oreja de Vehicle Gogh, amongst others) offered over 85,000 copies and reached quantity ten within the Spanish product sales chart. Following this recording, Ganchegui departed the music group, producing a four-member lineup. Their third recording, Estados de Ánimo, also made by Nigel Walker, premiered in 2003 and strike number four within the product sales chart after offering a lot more than 100,000 copies and heading Platinum. En Directo Bikini 30-12-2003, a documenting of the live occur Barcelona, premiered initially of 2004. Another year, Un Canto del Loco released their 4th studio record, Zapatillas, offering the title monitor as an individual. This work cemented the band’s popularity; it reached the very best of the product sales chart after offering over 100,000 copies within the initial week of its discharge. With this record, Un Canto del Loco became a member of Hombres G for the tour around Spain. Following the discharge of two even more live pieces, Pequeñoperating-system Grandes Directos and Directo Desde la Sala Oasis; their 5th album, Personas, premiered in Apr 2008 with great goals, and its achievement was a sure signal that Un Canto del Loco acquired become the most widely used band of early 2000s Spanish pop. Afterwards that calendar year they performed the inaugural Spanish model of the Rock and roll in Rio celebration franchise, and re-released Personas in a particular model, entitled De Personas a Personas, with six extra monitors. In ’09 2009 a documentary film in regards to the music group, also entitled Personas, premiered, and they created two even more albums: one, Radio La Colifata Presenta, was a live established documented in Buenos Aires, as the various other, Por Mi con por Todos Mis Compañeros, was a assortment of addresses of Spanish pop criteria. The following calendar year, however, the music group split up, its users wishing to go after solo professions. Dani Martín released a single recording, Pequeño, while Chema Ruiz continued to create a new music group, Belgrado, whose eponymous debut recording arrived in 2011.