In 1984, the lead singer, Amaya Uranga, left the group to pursue a solo career, and was replaced by Ana Bejerano, with whom Mocedades recorded three more albums for CBS. In 1980 Mocedades signed up to CBS Records, now Sony, and recorded more songs for the Spanish-speaking market, including " ¡Ay amor!" ("Oh Love") and " Amor de hombre" ("Love of Man"), which was the first Mocedades track to enter English-speaking charts since the smash hit " Eres tú". However, many more hits followed in Latin America and Spain, most notably " Tómame o déjame" ("Take Me or Leave Me"), " El vendedor" ("The Peddler"), " La otra España" ("The Other Spain") and " Me siento seguro" ("I Feel Secure"). (Per Mocedades' homepage Juan Carlos copyrighted the lyrics in 1973) After winning second place in the contest, and as of 2013 the highest score for Spain with 125 points, the song went on to become a huge international hit. Nevertheless, "Eres tú" was not disqualified. The 1973 Eurovision Song Contest was marked by a scandal, with charges that "Eres tú" was plagiarized and merely a rewrite of the Yugoslav entry from the 1966 contest (" Brez Besed", sung by Berta Ambrož). Billboard hit for Mocedades a follow-up, " Dime Señor" ("Tell Me, Lord", with "I Ask The Lord" on its B-side), flopped. It was subsequently released in German (Das bist Du, or "You Are That"), French (C'est pour toi, or "It Is For You"), Italian (Viva noi, or "Long Live Us"), and Basque (Zu Zara, or "You are"). The song was re-released in English as "Touch The Wind" in later years. There were also several cover versions of the tune in both English and Spanish, only one of which ("Touch the Wind" as done in English by Eydie Gorme), charted, becoming a minor Adult Contemporary hit. The B-side of the single was the English-language version of the song ("Touch the Wind"), but radio stations preferred to play the original A-side version. " Eres tú" became one of the only Spanish language songs to reach the top 10 in the United States, peaking at #9 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart and also reaching the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The group was now on its way to making a remarkable string of hits, most notably " Eres tú" ("You are."), runner up in 1973's Eurovision Song Contest and the next year a massive hit in Europe and the United States of America. It was with this configuration of six (three Uranga siblings, Zubiaga, Garay and Ipiña), known in Spain as "The Six Historic Ones", that Mocedades achieved its greatest successes. Estíbaliz Uranga and the Blanco brothers followed in 1971, and in 1972 Ipiña returned and Carlos Zubiaga (from Los Mitos) joined. Javier Garay who had previously belonged to Voces y Guitarras rejoined the group in 1970 after serving in the Spanish military in Africa. In 1970, both Ipiña (for military service) and Panera (to become a professor at a local university) left Mocedades. 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.Įurovision and worldwide success
They spent a year performing around their hometown before sending a demo cassette to producer Juan Carlos Calderón in Madrid. 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. 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. During their rehearsals, their brothers and friends joined. They sang in various locations at Bilbao. 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). 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. Since June 2014, Mocedades has been the name of two bands: one with Izaskun Uranga as its leader and the other with Javier Garay.
Mocedades ( Spanish pronunciation: ) 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".
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