Biography

Los Coronas, a band formed in 1991 started a musical project: “Rock’nroll with lots of reverb and Dick Dale’s pure surf sound”. Apart from Dick Dale, the band inspired in the music of The Ventures, Link Wray or Jerry Cole to create the landmark sound of Los Coronas. “Our music sounds exotic, even flamenco-like to audiences from overseas, specially the American audience”, “Then we have to explain that we are not flamenco musicians, it’s rather our Spanish culture reflected in our music. When we play in other countries but Spain (USA, UK, Mexico, Italy …) we get an incredible feedback from the audience”. The band (whose name is taken from Corona- a city in California where Fender made guitars until 1991). In the past twenty years, Los Coronas have seen their songs appearing in R’n’R and surf instrumental music compilations released in the USA, Japan, Germany and Sweden; how Phil Dirt placed them on top of the list of the best surf bands in the world; they opened the shows of their master Dick Dale in his Spanish tour; they’ve played at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin (Texas) and the Vive Latino Festival in Mexico in front of 40,000 people,Australia’s and Europe important festivals.
 Tormenta (1992) Los Coronas (1995) Gen-U-Ine Sounds (1996) The Vivid Sounds of … (2003) Caliente caliente (2004) Surfing Tenochtitlan (2006) Have a Cocktail With … Los Coronas & The Hi-Risers (2009) El Baile Final (2010) Adiós Sancho (2013) El Extraño Viaje (2013) Señales de Humo (2017)