- Los moonlights
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Name = Los Moonlights
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Origin = Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Genre = Spanish Rock N' Roll
Years_active = 1972-1976
Label = De La Planta
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Past_members = SERGIO IRIARTE, OSVALDO IRIARTE, DINO, and YAMANDU PÉREZ
Notable_instruments =Los Moonlights was, maybe next to Los Delfines, the band with the most steady schedule of work in
Uruguay during the years thatrock music was worth a living. Formed at the end the60s , they played live at the beginning of the following decade. Lead by the Iriarte brothers, and with a superb musician like Dino, Los Moonlights achieved a very important quantity of followers with their overwhelming sound ofguitar s and great vocalisations. After a couple of singles for the Clave label, the group signed with the decisive De La Planta, where they recorded a very goodalbum . Oddly, it has never been reissued and is hard to get.Simply titled Moonlights, the LP contains such songs as "Vamos dulce muchacha" or the mega classic "Milonga de pelo largo" (Milonga of the long hair) a key tune to understand the feeling of that time and place.
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military coup of1973 , Los Moonlights, as so many others, suffered under abrupt change of rules. Unlike most of the other bands, they attempted to survive and kept playing live until the effort proved useless. Following the commercial flop of their second album, the band split and Dino pursued a solo career.External links
* http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/waterloo/728/magicland/urug.html#
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