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Mœnia
Mœnia is a Mexican electronic/synthpop/ ambient group. Popular within the Latin club scene while simultaneously pioneering a darker, more experimental, more poetic side of Spanish-language electronica, Mœnia has had three top-20 hits. Mœnia is often considered one of the first successful experimental Mexican music composers and performers, finding commercial viability in a market normally dominated by Latin ballad crooners, teenage vocal groups and musical styles with more mass appeal like cumbia, reggaeton and ranchera. Mœnia is also popular in other parts of Latin America, including the Argentinian and Chilean music markets, where they have also charted. Some of their most recognized singles include "Estabas Ahí", "No Dices Más" and "Manto Estelar". History Early years (1985–1990) The group's formation dates back to 1985 while attending junior high school. The project began when sophomore year student Juan Carlos Lozano along with Alfonso Pichardo and Jorge Soto sh ...
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Morbo (band)
Morbo was a Mexican band formed by Juan Carlos Lozano with Alexander Ortega and Jorge Soto. Lozano was one of the four founding members of Moenia, Mœnia, which originally included Juan Carlos Lozano as lead guitarist on their failed 1992 debut album ''Moenia'', later on as lead vocalist on their official eponymous 1996 debut ''Mœnia'' and its 1998 companion remix album ''Mœnia Mixes''. Despite the acclaimed success at the time in a risky and previously unnoticed novelty in the Mexican music industry, and due to disagreements between Lozano, Jorge Soto and Alejandro 'Midi' Ortega as to the creative route Moenia, Mœnia should take, Lozano decided to leave Mœnia as vocalist with original founding member Alfonso Pichardo returning as lead singer. Lozano then formed the perhaps less commercial, still synth-oriented, but more guitar-centered Morbo, whose musical vision first came to fruition in 2001's eponymous ''Morbo''. The musical and lyrical vision of Morbo has continued to de ...
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Alfonso Pichardo
Santiago Alfonso Pichardo Lechuga (born February 1, 1973, in Mexico City) is a co-founder and current lead singer of Mexican electronic group Mœnia. Pichardo served as Mœnia's vocalist in their early years but was replaced by Juan Carlos Lozano in 1993, and in 1998 he came back to record the group's second album, ''Adición''. His father is the politician Ignacio Pichardo and his brother is the politician José Ignacio Pichardo Lechuga José Ignacio Pichardo Lechuga (born 8 September 1966) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was a federal deputy in the 61st and 63rd sessions of Congress (2009–2012 and 2015–2018) representing the .... Alfonso Pichardo was once married to Mexican model, Victoria González. Alfonso has also started a solo project and released an EP album entitled ''Equivocal'' with the song "Dar la Vuelta". References 1973 births Living people Mexican electronic musicians 21st-century Mexican sin ...
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