Cetu Javu was a German

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band that was active between 1987 and 1994, consisting of singer Javier Revilla Diez, Chris Demere on

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s, Stefan Engelke and Torsten Engelke. Vocalist Revilla Diez was born in Germany, and although his parents had emigrated from Spain, most of his songs are sung in English with several in Spanish. Cetu Javu had several dance hits with "Situations", "Have in Mind (The Kalimba Mix)" and "A Dónde". After Cetu Javu ended, vocalist Revilla Diez became a professor of

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at the

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. Since April 2014, Revilla Diez holds a Chair in human geography at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne. On November 19, 2020, after 25 years without appearing in any media, Javier Revilla gave an exclusive interview with Spanish radio host Miguel Moreno in which he told the entire story of the Group. Cetu Javu released two albums, '' Southern Lands'' (

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, 1990) and '' Where Is Where'' (Blanco y Negro Music, 1992).

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Matthias Blazek Matthias Blazek (born 1966) is a German local historian and journalist. Biography Matthias Blazek was born in Celle and spent his youth in Hanover, where he completed his ''Abitur'' at the Lutherschule Hannover in 1987. From 1987 to 1999 he s ...

: ''Das niedersächsische Bandkompendium 1963–2003 – Daten und Fakten von 100 Rockgruppen aus Niedersachsen''.

Celle Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle (district), Celle in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller (Germany), Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about ...

2006, p. 36

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