El Koala

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El Koala

El Koala (* 15. October 1970 in Malaga , Andalusia as Jesús Manuel Rodríguez ) is a Spanish musician . He describes his style of music as "Rock Rústico" (= peasant rock, rural rock), a mixture of rock and pop with lyrics from typical country life.

Career

In 1986 El Koala started a career by founding a punk-rock band called Santos Putos . In March 2006 he finally released his first album as El Koala, Rock Rústico de Lomo Ancho .

The first single Opá, yo viazé un corrá is one of the most watched videos on Youtube , with over 2 million clicks in the first month after publication; currently over 21 million (as of January 2011). The Spanish television broadcaster La Sexta promoted the 2006 World Cup with a revised text version of Opá, yo viazé un corrá (Opá, vamo a por el Mundiá) .

A year later, in June 2007, he released his second album called Vuelve la burra al trigo .

Opá, yo viazé un corrá is the only song by El Koala to be used as the basis for the video game SingStar (first published in Europe April 20, 2011).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ El Koala biography , on allmusic.com, accessed May 23, 2012
  2. ^ El Koala - Opá, yo viazé un corrá on YouTube.
  3. ^ Anthem for the 2006 World Cup Opá, vamo a por el Mundiá , accessed on May 23, 2012
  4. ↑ SingStar Update April 20, 2011 ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 23, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.singstar.com
personal data
SURNAME El Koala
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodríguez, Jesús Manuel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Málaga