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Locomía
Locomía (also known as Loco Mía) was a Spanish pop group popular in the 1980s. They combined elements of tropical with British music of the new wave and New Romantics. Their first hit was the eponymous song "Locomia". The original members were Francesc Picas, Manuel Arjona, Gard Passchier, and Luis Font. In 1982, the latter two were replaced by Juan Antonio Fuentes (later replaced by Santos Blanco) and Carlos Armas, and later Francesc Picas replaced Xavier Font. They often appeared in extravagant outfits that combined Spanish matador pants with frilly jackets done in eighteenth-century style. Fan-twirling was an important part of both their stage performance and their music videos. Both their outfits and their fan-twirling became trademarks of the group and contributed to their popularity. On June 15, 2018, their singer Santos Blanco died at the age of 46, from natural causes. On July 16, 2018, another ex-member, Frank Romero, died at the age of 46, in Huelva Huelva (, ) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiyo (Locomía Album)
''Taiyo'' is the debut studio album by Spanish Europop group Locomía. The formation consisted of four members: Xavier Font, Juan Antonio Fuentes, Carlos Armas and Manuel Arjona. The word that gives the title its name means "sun" in Japanese. Its music incorporates the pop music that was successful at the time in Europe with Latin rhythms. To promote it, three singles were released: "Locomía", "Taiyo" and "Rumba Mambo", Which were performed in several TV shows, and to each one was recorded a music video in which their androgynous clothing stood out: shoes 1700s style, exaggerated shoulder pads and giant hand fans. It was commercially successful, and went gold and platinum in ten countries, most of them in Latin America, and sales reached 1 million copies worldwide, making it the best seller of their career. Background and production The Locomía group began their career in 1984 as a group of fashion designers, their first members were Xavier Font and his brother Luis, Gard Passc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loco Vox
''Loco Vox'' is the second studio album by Spanish Europop group Locomía. As in the debut, the line-up consisted of a quartet, which included: Xavier Font, Juan Antonio Fuentes, Carlos Armas and Manuel Arjona. Its music incorporates the pop music that was successful at the time in Europe with Latin rhythms. To promote it, four singles were released: "Loco Vox", "Fiesta Latina", "Niña" and "Magia Negra" all of them were sung in various TV programs and two music video were made that highlighted their new visual, now more sober than those used at the time of '' Taiyo''s promotion, with the predominance, above all, of black and white colors. It was commercially successful, went gold and platinum in five countries, most of them in Latin America, and sales reached 800,000 copies worldwide, making it the second best seller of their career. At the end of the publicity work, Juan Antonio Fuentes left the group and was replaced by Santos Blanco López. Background and production The year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Rock
British rock describes a wide variety of forms of music made in the United Kingdom. Since around 1964, with the "British Invasion" of the United States spearheaded by the Beatles, British rock music has had a considerable impact on the development of American music and rock music across the world.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Èrlewine, ''All music guide to rock: the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul'' (Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), pp. 1316-7. Initial attempts to emulate American rock and roll took place in Britain in the mid-1950s, but the terms "rock music" and "rock" usually refer to the music derived from the blues rock and other genres that emerged during the 1960s. The term is often used in combination with other terms to describe a variety of hybrids or subgenres, and is often contrasted with pop music, with which it shares many structures and instrumentation. Rock music has tended to be more orientated toward the albums market, putting an emphasis on inn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Wave Music
New wave is a loosely defined music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many popular music styles of the era, including power pop, synth-pop, ska revival, and more specific forms of punk rock that were less abrasive. It may also be viewed as a more accessible counterpart of post-punk. Common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, the use of electronic sounds, and a distinctive visual style in music videos and fashion. In the early 1980s, virtually every new pop/rock act – and particularly those that employed synthesizers – were tagged as "new wave". Although new wave shares punk's do-it-yourself philosophy, the artists were more influenced by the styles of the 1950s along with the lighter s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Romanticism
The New Romantic movement was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The movement emerged from the nightclub scene in London and Birmingham at venues such as Billy's and The Blitz. The New Romantic movement was characterised by flamboyant, eccentric fashion inspired by fashion boutiques such as Kahn and Bell in Birmingham and PX in London. Early adherents of the movement were often referred to by the press by such names as Blitz Kids, New Dandies and Romantic Rebels. Influenced by David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Roxy Music, the New Romantics developed fashions inspired by the glam rock era coupled with the early Romantic period of the late 18th and early 19th century (from which the movement took its name). The term "New Romantic" is known to have been coined by musician, producer, manager and innovator Richard James Burgess. He stated that "'New Romantic' ..fit the Blitz scene and Spandau Ballet, although most of the groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huelva
Huelva (, ) is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is between two short rias though has an outlying spur including nature reserve on the Gulf of Cádiz coast. The rias are of the Odiel and Tinto rivers and are good natural harbors. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 149,410. Huelva is home to Recreativo de Huelva, the oldest football club in Spain. While the existence of a pre-Phoenician settlement within the current urban limits since circa 1250 BC has been tentatively defended by scholars, Phoenicians established a stable colony roughly by the 9th century BC. History Protohistory At least up to the 1980s and 1990s, the mainstream view was that Huelva at first was an autochthonous Tartessian settlement (even the very same Tartessos mentioned in Greek sources) yet some later views tended to rather stress a pluri-ethnic enclave mixing natives with peoples with a mainly Phoenici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
