Javi Mota
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on 28 May 1984) is a Spanish
Spain
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singer, actor, dancer and model.
Early life
Javi Mota started taking dance and music classes at a very young age. At the age of 12, he landed a role in Menudo television show and two years later in the program Veo Veo. In 1999, at age of 15, he became a radio announcer on "La Mañana", a youth music program. In 2000, at age of 16, he won a big casting competition, and became part of the musical group "Gypsy Teens", that was signed to Universal Music Spain S.L. and toured with them giving him great national and international exposure. The band had a number of hit singles on radio and was promoted particularly in France and Germany and was featured, amongst others on MTVMTV Europe
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, Viva TV, GIGA TV
GIGA Television
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. Still in school, he later on appeared in the youth television program Club Megatrix on Spanish Antena 3
Antena 3 (Spain)
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.
At 19, study musical theater in the Carmen Roche performing arts school in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. He continued appearing on various music projects as well as television commercials.
In 2003, he started a solo singing career and became a dancer, model and presenter on "Feria de la Moda de Madrid" (IFEMA), a Spanish fashion show, also taking part in local musical theater versions of Flashdance and with musical theater group "La Decada Prodigiosa" and in musical Me voy a Barcelona. He also prepared a solo album in 2005, but failed to make a hit. In 2006, he co-starred in a leading role on the television series Suárez y Mariscal on Cuatro TV and in El Buscuador on Tele5.
In Banghra
His big commercial musical success came in 2007 with the music and dance act BanghraBanghra
Banghra is a Spanish pop group formed in 2007 with members Javi Mota, Lidia Guevara, and Victoria Gómez that tried to reintroduce belly dancing and Indian dance music to the mainstream in catchy songs sung in Spanish and English. The band was formed as a project of producer Sergio Medrano...
with Lidia Guevara, joined for some time by Victoria Gómez. Signed to Vale Music
Vale Music
Vale Music was a Spanish record label founded by Ricardo Campoy and the executives José María Castells, Toni Peret and Andreu Ugas that came from the breakaway Max Music. The label belongs to Universal Music Group since 2006....
, Banghra tried to reintroduce belly dancing to the mainstream in catchy songs sung in Spanish and English. In June 2007, their first album, "La Danza del Vientre" became a big sensation of the summer charts in Spain, with songs performed in Spanish and English taking the typical oriental / eastern sounds of belly dancing. The album reached position #3 in the Spanish pop charts. The single "My Own Way" reached #14 on the singles chart. The band followed it up with the album ...a bailar!, with hit singles "Una especie en extinción" (reaching #27) and Unidos, but the album was a far smaller hit reaching only #54. The band disbanded end of 2008.
Solo career
After break-up of Banghra, Javi Mota continued a solo musical career and appeared in 2008 in the Nacho CanoNacho Cano
Ignacio Cano Andrés, aka Nacho Cano, is a Spanish arranger, composer, musician and record producer. He studied solfège and was one of the members of the Spanish group Mecano along with his brother José María Cano and Ana Torroja.He has released 4 solo albums, including Vivimos siempre juntos with...
musical "A".
In October 2010, he took part in Nacho Cano's Mecandance, alongside Gerard Martí, Antonio Martos
Antonio Martos Ortiz
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(of D'Nash
D'NASH
D'Nash is a Spanish boy band, best known for representing Spain in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.-Members:* Basty - real name: Esteban Piñero Camacho - born 28 February 1981, Cádiz...
), Cristina Llorente, Edu Morlans, Mariade Vázquez, Ori de la Peña, Lydia Fairén and vocalist Nalaya Brown. Mecandance also released an album containing the songs of the show.
In 2011, he appeared in the music video of "Aquella noche" of Calaita. He also appeared on the Spanish soap opera series Basta Ya!!.
Eurovision
In 2010, Javi Mota took part in the Spanish preselection contest in a bid to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010
Eurovision Song Contest 2010
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to be held in Oslo
Oslo
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. He presented the song "Amarte Hoy" written by Roel Garcia and produced by Ivan Vázquez, but failed to qualify.
2011
Javi Mota signed with "Victorya Producciones" and on 14 May 2011 released a new single entitled "Llevaré".
Discography
For detailed information on Banghra discography, refer to: BanghraSingles
In Banghra- 2007: "My Own Way"
- 2008: "Promised Land"
- 2008: "Una especie en extinción"
- 2008: "Unidos"
Solo:
- 2010: "Amarte Hoy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEAkSlZKyQ
- 2011: "Llevaré" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qSrCmdIMis
Featured in:
- 2010: "Una rosa es una rosa" (in show Mecandance)