Estibaliz Uranga
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Estíbaliz Uranga is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
, Spain) is a Spanish
Spain
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singer, best known as a member of the folk group Mocedades
Mocedades
Mocedades is a Spanish singing group from the Basque Country, probably best known for representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with the song "Eres Tú"...
, as part of the duo Sergio y Estíbaliz
Sergio y Estíbaliz
Sergio Blanco Rivas and Estíbaliz Uranga Amézaga , known professionally as Sergio y Estíbaliz, are a Spanish vocal duo, active since the late 1960s, who have also worked with groups Mocedades and El Consorcio...
and nowadays as a member of the group El Consorcio.
In the late 1960s she initially teamed up with her two sisters Amaya
Amaya Uranga
Amaya Uranga Amezaga is a Spanish singer, best known for the fifteen years she spent as a member of the Basque folk/pop sextet Mocedades. She is a cousin of director Pablo Berger.-Biography:...
and Izaskun
Izaskun Uranga
Izaskun Uranga is a Spanish musician, who with her two sisters Estibaliz Uranga and Amaya Uranga formed the group "Las Hermanas Urangas", which became "Voces y Guitarras" and, in 1969, the well-known Spanish folk group Mocedades....
to form Las hermanas Uranga ("The Uranga sisters"), which developed with the inclusion of further siblings and friends into the group Voces y Guitarras ("Voices and Guitars"). By 1969 they were discovered by producer Juan Carlos Calderón, who took them on and renamed them to Mocedades ("Youth").
Estíbaliz Uranga left Mocedades after three albums in 1972 to form with fellow Mocedades singer Sergio Blanco the duo Sergio y Estíbaliz .
Sergio y Estíbaliz took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975
Eurovision Song Contest 1975
The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the contest hosted by SR and held in Stockholm, Sweden. The arena for the event was the newly built Stockholm International Fairs in Älvsjö in southern Stockholm. ABBA's victory in Brighton the previous year gave Sweden the right to host the...
and reached 10th place with their greatest hit Tú volverás, released in English as You'll Return. In the same year Estíbaliz and Sergio married. Until 1993 the duo had numerous successes in Spain and Latin America.
In 1993 Estíbaliz and Sergio formed with other former members of Mocedades the group El Consorcio, which until 2008 produced 12 albums.