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"Eres tú" (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeɾes ˈtu]; "It's You") is a song recorded by Spanish band Mocedades, written by Juan Carlos Calderón. It represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 held in Luxembourg placing second which was followed by a global success.
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 .
Spain was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 with the song "Eres tú", written by Juan Carlos Calderón, and performed by the vocal group Mocedades.The Spanish participating broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), selected internally both the song and the performer.
Uranga formed Mocedades in 1969 with eight members. After numerous group changes, Uranga together with her sister Izaskun, her brother Roberto, and three other male members became the so-called "historic six" members of Mocedades who came second in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Eres Tú", and the band subsequently launched a hugely successful music career in Spain and Latin ...
In a back-to-back victory, Luxembourg won the contest again with the song "Tu te reconnaîtras" by Anne-Marie David. The voting was a very close one, with Spain with " Eres tú " by Mocedades finishing only 4 points behind and the United Kingdom with " Power to All Our Friends " by Cliff Richard (who had come second in 1968 just behind Spain ...
In June 2017, following the number one peak of "Despacito" in the Hot 100, Philip Bump of The Washington Post related the increasing success of Spanish-language songs in the United States since 2004 with the growth of its Spanish-speaking population, highlighting an improvement from 4.9% in 1980 to 11.5% in 2015. [11]
El Consorcio is a Spanish singing group from Bilbao, formed in 1993 by singers Amaya, Estíbaliz and Iñaki Uranga, Carlos Zubiaga and Sergio Blanco, all of them past members of the singing group Mocedades. In 2016 they received the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. [1]
Sergio and Estíbaliz were a Spanish vocal duo, formed by Sergio Blanco Rivas (17 November 1948 – 15 February 2015) and Estíbaliz Uranga Amézaga (born 9 December 1952) who also worked with groups Mocedades and El Consorcio. They were also known for their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975. Both were born in Bilbao.