Mocedades

Mocedades was a Spanish-Basque singing sextet.

In 1967 was by some students from Bilbao founded Voces y Guitarras. A year later they sent a tape to a record company in Madrid . Juan Carlos Calderón immediately saw potential in the group and took them under his wing. The name was changed in Mocedades. In the beginning there were 8 members; Family Uranga (the 3 sisters Amaya, Estíbaliz and Izaskun and brother Roberto), the brothers Rafaél and Sergio Blanco and further José Ipiña and Francesco Panera. The latter two left the group in1970 and Javier Garay joined the group. In 1972 the Blanco brothers and Estíbaliz Uranga also left the group, Sergio and Estíbaliz were in love and continued as the duoSergio y Estíbaliz . José Ipiña returned to the group and Carlos Zubiaga there was also at. Under this formation, the group scored his biggest hits.

The band represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 with Eres tu. The song was second behind Anne-Marie David, but later was the moral winner. The song was a big hit and in the English version (Touch the wind) was even in the top 20 in the United States . In 2005 the song was also elected the 14 best Eurovision songs in the television broadcast Congratulations .

In 1980 the group had a major hit with Amor de Hombre (which 500 000 copies sold was in Spain alone).

Amaya left the group in 1984 and was replaced by Ana Bejerano. Iñaki Uranga, a sister Amaya came in 1988 with the group after José Carlos and walked out. Izaskum and Javier left the group in 1993

Roberto Uranga died at the age of 57 in October 2005 . ==Radio 2 Top 2000 [  edit ] ==