Kenny y los Eléctricos

Kenny y los Eléctricos

Kenny Aviles
Background information
Also known as Kenny and the Eléctrics, Kenny y los nuevos Eléctricos
Origin Los Angeles
Genres Rock, pop
Years active 1980–present
Associated acts Caifanes, Fobia, El Tri, Maná, Santa Sabina
Website www.kennyyloselectricos.com
Members Kenny, vocals, acoustical guitar, harmonicas
Edgar Carrum, bass
Alex Altamirano, drums
Fermont Monfort, guitar
Notable instruments
guitar, bass, drums, harmonica

Kenny y los Eléctricos is a rock group founded in 1980 by singer and band leader Kenny Aviles, who has been called "the mother of Mexican rock"[1] The band started in Los Angeles, where they made their first public appearances under the name Kenny and The Electrics, playing in venues like Whiskey A Go-Go.[2] They moved back to their native Mexico in 1980 and went on to be considered an internationally important Mexican rock band,[3] and emblematic of Mexican rock in the 80s.[4][5][6]

Aviles has been called the Mexican Pat Benatar, and one of the most important women in Mexican rock.[2]

Through its history, the lineup of the band continuously changed. In 1990 the band broke up completely, leaving Aviles as a solo act. Then, in 1995 a new band formed called Kenny y los Nuevos Eléctricos. The band took back its original name in 2000.

Biography

1980: Appear for the first time in Los Angeles as Kenny and the Electrics. That year they moved to Mexico, where the band members were born, to seek their roots and to be able to express themselves in Spanish. Rock music at this time was met with considerable official disapproval and often played, for lack of better options, in what were known as hoyos funquis (funky holes). Kenny y los Eléctricos became known on this scene.[7]

1981: Recorded their first record, Electrimanías, with the independent label New Age Records. They changed their name to Kenny y los Eléctricos. Around this time new venues began to appear in Mexico and along with Ritmo Peligroso, Chac-Mool, Botellita de Jerez and Taxi, Kenny y los Eléctricos appeared at Satellite Rock [8] and at Rockotitlán along with bands like Caifanes, Santa Sabina, Rostros Ocultos and Fobia.[5]

1983: Record a collaboration on the independent Comrock label,[9] with Chela Braniff, Juan Navarro and Ricardo Ochoa, a former member of Peace and Love, then Kenny's guitar player; the album was produced by Ochoa.[10] The music of the bands in the Comrock compilations "became the fodder for the childhood of groups like Café Tacuba, whose members were beginning to imagine a pop cultural future as hip as the north but tinged with Mexican flavor."[11]

1986: produce Juntos por el Rock, and issued the singles Me Quieres Cotorrear and A Woman in Love. They change their name to Kenny y los eléctricos.

1988: Eyeing the success of Rock en espanol, big labels begin to seek out groups who represent [Mexican rock|Rock en Mexico]. The record No huyas de mi they recorded for Discos Melody was engineered by Juan Switalski and produced by Ochoa, with lyrics by Ochoa, Kenny and Aleks Syntek with the participation of Jorge "Chiquis" Amaro, Sabo Romo, Aleks Syntek, Alfonso André and Federico Fong as musicians. This record became a classic of Mexican rock and is today one of the most-played selections in bars, clubs and disco parties.

1992: put out a record for Discos Denver, Toda la noche sin parar, on both CD and vinyl discs, containing a selection of cuts from previous albums.

1993: Kenny records the album Si no estás aquí, for which the first single was Si no estas aquí, followed by Satisfáceme si puedes.

1995: Kenny meets Edgar Carrum and forms the first lineup of Kenny y Los Nuevos Eléctricos.

1999: the band recorded an electical acoustic concert, Sensaciones Electroacústicas, and with this concert closed a circle and opened a new stage for the new decade.

2000: Produce Alma Beta. The cover art was created by José Fors. From this album they released Dicen por ahí, which quickly hit the charts on the radio. It was named the best rock ballad of 2000 and is one of the band's most representative songs.

2002: release of La Historia 1980-2000 embodied twenty years of rock in an album which gathered into a remastered music journey the most important songs of Kenny's career.

2003: recorded the Kenny Fest album live at Rockotitlan south in Mexico City with special guest musicians:

2004: release of the DVD La Reina del Rock includes the Sensaciones electroacústicas and Kenny Fest concerts as well as other video.

2005: release Sicodelia with the song Puro amor as a single.

2008: Mid-year put out the disk Con Tequila en la Sangre a tribute to Mexican music, for a new record label, a fusion of mariachi music with rock which did well in Mexico and various other countries. This album was distributed throughout Mexico, Canada, and the US, online and in stores. The tour covered Mexico, the US and Germany, including concerts in Hamburg and Berlin.

2010: In August a new record appeared: Sex y Rock & love, a rock record with 100% original compositions.

2013: Release in México of the album Otra sensación Concierto electroacústico. The album was recorded April 26 at the Guadalajara Electroacústico concert and featured different versions of classical guitar themes, part mariachi-rock, part guest rockera from the classic Mexican rock such as Javis from La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata, from Tijuana's Baby Batiz and to on the other hand Crescencio Hernández, the Mexican mariachi trumpet legend, among others.

2014: launched the double album Los jefes del rock mexicano volume 1 in the United States, which included a recompilation and the unplugged Otra Sensacion concert. This album was distributed in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico by Opcion Sonica, and is considered the country's most representative record of the indie latin movement.

2015: 35th anniversary; concerts with guest musicians from different periods of Kenny's 35-year career, including Alfonso André of the Jaguares, Armando Palomo of Botellita de Jerez, Avi Michel of Ritmo Peligroso and Baby Batiz;[12] also a concert tour in the US. The band also expressed support for a museum of Mexican rock proposed in Coahuila.[13]

Concerts on international tour

Discography

Video

Members

Previous collaborators

See also

References

  1. ↑ Itzel Acero (April 5, 2013). "Quiero Morir cantando" (in Spanish). La Jornado AguasCalientes.
  2. 1 2 Deborah Pacini Hernandez; Héctor D. Fernández l'Hoeste; Eric Zolov (2004). Rockin' Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 153. ISBN 0822972557.
  3. ↑ Mariza Cuevas (October 12, 2016). ""The Pit", una década de música e importantes momentos". El Sol de Cuernavaca.
  4. ↑ "Confirma Sabo Romo gira de "Rock en tu Idioma Sinfónico". La Taquilla, con René Franco". Grupo Fórmula. December 3, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Jorge Hill (July 30, 2016). "Extrañas nostalgias digerida". La ciudad dormida - Animal Político.
  6. ↑ Julian Woodside (2008). "La historicidad del paisaje sonoro y la música popular" [The historicity of the soundscape and popular music]. Trans. Sociedad de Etnomucicología. ISSN 1697-0101.
  7. ↑ Roberto Avant-Mier (2005). "Las Ondas de José Agustín: Remembering La Onda through the literature of José Agustín and La Onda roquera (rock'n'roll in México)". Chapter and Verse: A Journal of Popular Music and Literature Studies. Popmatters Media.
  8. ↑ José Enrique Fernandez; John Lannert (17 October 1992). "Homegrown Mexican Rock Thrives Against the Odds". Billboard. 104 (42). Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 58. ISSN 0006-2510 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Guillermo Osorno. Tengo que morir todas las noches: Una crónica de los ochenta, el underground y la cultura gay [I Have to Die Every Night: A chronicle of the Eighties, the Underground and Gay Culture]. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México. p. 143. ISBN 6073123000 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Solidaridad para Ricardo Ochoa". subterráneos. January 22, 2014.
  11. ↑ Ed Morales (2009). The Latin Beat: The Rhythms And Roots Of Latin Music From Bossa Nova To Salsa And Beyond. Da Capo Press. p. 308. ISBN 078673020X – via Google books.
  12. ↑ "Celebran 35 años Kenny y los Eléctricos". El Mundo de Tehuacán. August 4, 2016.
  13. ↑ Jesús Leal Gutiérrez (September 12, 2016). "Museo del Rock Mexicano". El Diario de Coahuila.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Los rockeros Kenny y los Eléctricos celebrarán 35 años en el Lunario". 20 minutos. September 6, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Aleks Syntek publicará un libro autobiográfico". El Telégrafo. October 17, 2016.
  16. ↑ "La rockera Penny Pacheco llega por primera vez a este paisaje fronterizo" [The Rocker Penny Pacheco coming to the border country for the first time] (in Spanish). El Sol de Tijuana. October 12, 2016.
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