Los Hang Ten's

"Los Hang Ten's" was a Peruvian rock group formed in 1964, originally from the San Isidro District in the country's capital Lima, from which the band Traffic Sound, the first so-called rock "supergroup" in that country's music history, drew two of its original members and, through them, the main idea regarding its creation.

In the early months of 1964, a number of the more rock music-inclined members of the Christian Brothers´ "Santa María School" student body, specifically a few of those amongst them attending the 9th grade, decided to create a rock band in order to entertain their friends and schoolmates, primarily at school functions and parties. The name of the band, "Los Hang Ten´s" - a direct derivative of a complex surfing position, but keeping the article "Los", in Spanish, ( as opposed to the English "The")-, was chosen by consensus by the original group members, most of whom were surf, as well as music aficionados in their remaining free time.

Initially, the group had the brothers José (b. Lima, 1950), and Freddy (b. Lima, 1952) Rizo-Patrón Buckley playing lead and rhythm guitar, respectively (their mother a US national from Boston), with the then future Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs of Perú -as well as President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights-, Diego García Sayán Larrabure (born August 2, 1950, in New York, NY), on drums. The line-up was completed with schoolmates Ramón de Orbegoso Elejalde (b. Lima, 1950), who played bass, and Felipe Larrabure Aramburú (b. Lima, 1950), who was García Sayán's first cousin, on lead vocals.

A few weeks after, another schoolmate, future music impresario Arturo Rodrigo Santistevan (b. Lima, 1949), joined the group by playing the tambourine, as well as, on the occasion, did another school friend, the future "Traffic Sound" lead singer, DJ and businessman, Manuel Sanguinetti (b. Lima, 1950), who sang several songs with Larrabure, each providing back-up vocals to each other, in alternance.

The group was influenced by the arrival of the so-called "British Invasion", which had taken over the United States by storm, the latter a country most of their members had visited on either school-sponsored, family, or personal vacation trips, the two previous summers.

Most notably, it was the sound of the UK group The Kinks, led by the Davies brothers, Dave and Ray, that impressed them the most, which led them into performing covers of almost their entire set of hits, ranging from rockers like "You really got me". "Till the end of the day" and "All day and all the night", to the blues infested "Com'on now", or power ballads like "Baby, where have all the good times gone" and "Tired of waiting for you".

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