Torreblanca (band)
Torreblanca is a Mexican rock and pop band based in Mexico City led by musician and composer Juan Manuel Torreblanca. History In 2007, Juan Manuel Torreblanca was selected by the Red Bull Music Academy to participate in forums and workshops in Toronto, Canada, where he also made several concerts. In 2008, Juan Manuel participated in the Sónar Festival. After the festival, he decided to form a band to make a new musical proposal. Through MySpace he met Alejandro Balderas, who plays the flute, saxophones, clarinet and the transverse flute. Also they invited Jerson Vázquez on the drums and Carlos Zavala "El Abuelo" on bass, with whom Juan Manuel had formed previously the group ''Un Teni.'' The new band with the name ''Torreblanca'', taken from the last name of Juan Manuel, published an EP, ''Defense'', with four songs, co-produced by Arturo "Turra" Medina and León Polar, LoBlondo from Hello Seahorse! and Natalia Lafourcade. After listening to them at Vive Latino festival, Quique ...
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Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ...
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