Andalusian Rock band, founded in Seville, Spain, in 1974.
The beginning of the band was
Tabaca, a band founded by
Carlos Attias, Miguel Ríos' bassist, Emilio Souto, singer on Los Solitarios and Eduardo Rodriguez, guitarist from
Los Payos. After Attias gave up, Jesús de la Rosa joined as bassist and singer in 1973, forming a trio imitating Crosby, Stills & Nash, and produced by
Johnny Galvao. Emilio Souto went to join Moncho Alpuente in
Desde Santurce A Bilbao Blues Band, and the rest with Juan José Palacios, Tele, would found Triana. On first line-up was also
Manuel Molina and
Dolores Montoya, but they soon quit to settle as a duo,
Lole Y Manuel.
Tragically, Triana's life ended in 1983, when Jesús de la Rosa died in a car accident. The band disappeared but in the late 90's Tele decided to return as Triana, without Eduardo Rodríguez (who disapproved the idea) and with a group of friends. They released two more albums before his death, in 2002.
But even then the band didn't disappeared: in 2007 Tele's widow (who had the legal rights over the name) gave her approval to a new re-foundation and the band, now in a hard-rock vein, returned to scene.