Los Rodríguez was a rock band composed by two Argentines

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 and two Spaniards

Spain

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, that played during the 90's.

History

The group was born in 1990 when Ariel Rot

Ariel Rot

Ariel Rot is an Argentine musician.He went to Spain when he was young and became a member of the group Tequila. Later he started a musical career alone, after which he became a member of the group Los Rodríguez .More recently he has returned to solo performing...

 and Julián Infante

Julián Infante

Julián Infante was a Spanish guitarist and composer....

 (members of the famous group Tequila

Tequila (group)

Tequila was an Argentine-Spanish rock band based in Madrid , active between 1975 and 1983.- Members:* Alejo Stivel - Vocals* Ariel Rot - Guitar* Julian Infante - Guitar* Felipe Lipe - Bass* Manolo Iglesias - Drums-Discography:...

) joined Andrés Calamaro

Andrés Calamaro

Andrés Calamaro , is an Argentine musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner. His former band Los Rodríguez was a major success in Spain in the 1990s. He became one of the main icons of the Argentine rock in the last two decades and has sold over 1.3 million copies.-Abuelos de la Nada:Calamaro was...

, from the band Los Abuelos de la Nada

Los Abuelos de la Nada

Los Abuelos de la Nada were an Argentine rock band that underwent several incarnations, all of them led by singer and songwriter Miguel Abuelo.-First Era:...

, and Germán Vilella. They started touring around small clubs in Madrid.

In 1991 their first album, Buena Suerte, was released . Its song Mi Enfermedad was a hit in Argentina with Fabiana Cantilo

Fabiana Cantilo

Fabiana Cantilo is a singer and songwriter from Argentina. She has sold more than 5 million records in her career.- Soloist :* Detectives * Fabiana Cantilo y los Perros Calientes...

's cover.

But it was their 1993 album Sin Documentos that brought the group to the hit parade. With songs as Dulce condena, Sin documentos, Mi rock perdido, and Me estás atrapando otra vez.

The next album, 1995's Palabras más, palabras menos, was another success. The album contains Mucho Mejor (with Coque Malla

Coque Malla

Coque Malla is a Spanish musician and actor, frontman of the group Los Ronaldos. He was born in Madrid in 1969. He starred in the film Todo es mentira with Penélope Cruz-References:...

), Todavía una canción de amor (with lyrics by Joaquín Sabina

Joaquín Sabina

Joaquín Ramón Martínez Sabina , known artistically as Joaquín Sabina, is a singer, songwriter, and poet. He has released fourteen studio albums, two live albums, and three compilation albums...

, whom they toured with that year) and Milonga del marinero y el capitán.

In 1997 they released Hasta luego, a compilation album, and went on tour. The band broke apart due to economic conflicts.

Music

Their music is a fusion of different styles as flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

, rumba

Rumba

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, bolero

Bolero

Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...

, ranchera

Ranchera

Ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico originally sung by only one performer with a guitar. It dates to the years of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. It later became closely associated with the mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco. Ranchera today is also played...

, milonga

Milonga

Milonga can refer to an Argentine, Uruguayan, and Southern Brazilian form of music which preceded the tango and the dance form which accompanies it, or to the term for places or events where the tango or Milonga are danced...

, funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

, blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, and Rolling Stones-style rock

Rock music

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. Calamaro

Andrés Calamaro

Andrés Calamaro , is an Argentine musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner. His former band Los Rodríguez was a major success in Spain in the 1990s. He became one of the main icons of the Argentine rock in the last two decades and has sold over 1.3 million copies.-Abuelos de la Nada:Calamaro was...

's lyrics are influenced by Joaquín Sabina

Joaquín Sabina

Joaquín Ramón Martínez Sabina , known artistically as Joaquín Sabina, is a singer, songwriter, and poet. He has released fourteen studio albums, two live albums, and three compilation albums...

 and Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

.

Despite their short career, their great success inspired a revolution in the Spanish pop music market, returning attention to groups that sing in Spanish (and bands with Spanish roots).

The band's song, Sin Documentos, is featured on Guitar Hero II

Guitar Hero II

Guitar Hero II is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane. It is the second installment in the Guitar Hero series and is the sequel to Guitar Hero...

 for Xbox 360 as a download extra. Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas Percevault , known professionally as Julieta Venegas, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer, who sings pop-rock in Spanish. She speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish fluently. She has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer...

 also sang a cover of the song in her album "Limon y Sal."

Members

• Andrés Calamaro
  Andrés Calamaro
  Andrés Calamaro , is an Argentine musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner. His former band Los Rodríguez was a major success in Spain in the 1990s. He became one of the main icons of the Argentine rock in the last two decades and has sold over 1.3 million copies.-Abuelos de la Nada:Calamaro was...
  
   - Singer, keyboards and songwriter
• Ariel Rot
  Ariel Rot
  Ariel Rot is an Argentine musician.He went to Spain when he was young and became a member of the group Tequila. Later he started a musical career alone, after which he became a member of the group Los Rodríguez .More recently he has returned to solo performing...
  
   - Lead guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Julián Infante
  Julián Infante
  Julián Infante was a Spanish guitarist and composer....
  
   - Rhythm guitarist, songwriter
• Germán Vilella - Drums

Non-members who collaborated with the band at different times were :

• Candi Avelló, Daniel Zamora and Guillermo Martín - Bass

Albums

• Buena suerte
  Buena Suerte
  Buena Suerte , or more known as Zone II, is one of the eighteen barangays comprising the Municipality of El Nido in the province of Palawan in the Philippines. Its name literally means "Good Luck" in Spanish....
  
  (1991)
• Disco pirata (Live 1992)
• Sin documentos (1993)
• Palabras más, palabras menos (1995)
• Hasta luego (Compilation, 1997)
• Para no olvidar (Compilation, 2002)

Singles

• "Engánchate conmigo" (1991)
• "A los ojos" (1991)
• "Dispara" (1991)
• "No estoy borracho" (1992)
• "Dulce condena" (1993)
• "Sin documentos" (1993)
• "Salud (dinero y amor)" (1993)
• "Mi rock perdido" (1994)
• "Milonga del marinero y el capitán" (1995)
• "Palabras más, palabras menos" (1995)
• "Aquí no podemos hacerlo" (1995)
• "Todavía una canción de amor" (1995)
• "Para no olvidar" (1996)
• "Mucho mejor" (1996)
• "Mucho mejor -Directo-" (1996)
• "Mi enfermedad (versión 96)" (1996)
• "Copa rota" (1996)
• "Estoy sintiendolo tanto" (1996)