Mocedades

Mocedades
The Group in 2006.
Background information
Origin	Bilbao, Spain.
Genres	Folk, pop
Years active	1969–present
Labels	Zafiro, CBS, Sony Music, DiscMedi, Walt Disney, Klasico
Website	www.mocedades.com
Members	Formation A: Javier Garay Begoña Costa Aitor Melgosa Luis Hornedo Icíar Ibarrondo Formation B: Izaskun Uranga Rosa Rodríguez Fernando Gonzalez José María Cortés José María Santamaría
Past members	Amaya Uranga Roberto Uranga José Ipiña Estíbaliz Uranga Sergio Blanco Rafael Blanco Francisco Panera Carlos Zubiaga Ana Bejerano Iñaki Uranga Inés Rangil Íñigo Zubizarreta José García José Antonio Las Heras Idoia Arteaga Iratxe Martínez de Arenaza

Mocedades (Spanish pronunciation: [moθeˈðaðes]) is a Spanish singing group from the Basque Country, who represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with the hit song "Eres Tú". Since June 2014, Mocedades has been the name of two bands: one with Izaskun Uranga as its leader and the other with Javier Garay. A third group, El Consorcio, is composed of former Mocedades members who left the group but have continued a career together outside the Mocedades brand.

In 1967, in the Basque city of Bilbao, three young sisters, Amaya, Izaskun and Estibaliz Uranga, formed a vocal trio named Las Hermanas Uranga (The Uranga Sisters). They sang in various locations at Bilbao. During their rehearsals, their brothers and friends joined. Eventually they decided to form a vocal group named Voces y guitarras ("Voices and Guitars") with folk and spiritual music and The Beatles as their influences. The members of Voces y guitarras were Amaya Uranga, Izaskun Uranga, Estibaliz Uranga, Roberto Uranga, Rafael Blanco, Sergio Blanco, José Ipiña, Javier Garay and Francisco "Paco" Panera. They spent a year performing around their hometown before sending a demo cassette to producer Juan Carlos Calderón in Madrid. He took an immediate interest in the group and renamed them Mocedades, meaning "youths," from the Spanish word mocedad, which means "youth." Javier Garay could not join them because of his military service, and so Mocedades started out as an eight-member group.