Mr. Loco, also known as Mister Loco or Mr. Loco Band, is a Mexican

Mexico

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 band started during the mid-1970s, singing mostly in English, though occasionally in Spanish.

Biography

Formed in 1975. Mister Loco is an offshoot band established by previous members; Javier (XAVIER) Garza Alarcón, JORGE García Castil & RAFAEL Acosta from the Mexican rock band 'Los Locos Del Ritmo'.
Although the band Mister Loco was formed in 1975, individually the six members had been studying Latin American folk and modern music for fifteen years. Mister Loco was formed with a somewhat adventurous and original idea -to mix the different element of music in Latin America, to combine traditional Latin rhythms and instruments with popular music

Popular music

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 as it is now expressed internationally.

Sounds Like: Pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

, Latin American folk

Folk music

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Nacho Libre

In late 2005, the band got a new revival, thanks to movie-director Jared Hess

Jared Hess

Jared Lawrence Hess is an American filmmaker known for his work Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre , which he co-wrote and directed with his wife, Jerusha Hess....

, who is a good friend of Beck

Beck

Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

. Beck helped out Jared with the soundtrack to his movie Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre is a 2006 comedy film directed by Jared Hess. It is a production of Nickelodeon Movies.The script was written by Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess and Mike White. It was loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta , aka Rev. Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a...

, starring Jack Black

Jack Black

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. And as Jared owned their album, and even knew the members of the band, he saw that it perfectly fit to use their music with the film. He used Hombre Religioso (Religious Man) as the title song in it, and also Bubble Gum and Papas in the rest of the film.

Albums

• Uno (1975)
• Lucky Man (1976)
• Sencillamente Nunca
  Sencillamente Nunca
  -Track listing:# "Sencillamente Nunca"# "Zapatos De Ante Azul, Cover"# "Tutti Frutti-La Plaga, Cover"# "Mambo No 5, Cover"# "Telegrama De México"# "Superman"# "Viva Zapata "# "Pumping Piano"# "Tequila"# "Rockin robin, Cover"...
  
  (1978)
• Dancing Loco Disco (as "Mr. Loco Loco") (1979)
• Mystic (2007)

Singles

• "Lucky Man" (1975, Japan)
• "Bubble Gum" / "(Tu) Solo Tu (1976)
• "Mr Loco"
• "Religious Man"
• "Papas"
• "Religious Man" w/ Danny Elfman
• "Cancun Moon" (2007)
• "Rocking Mariachis" (2007)
• "Nacho Libre" (2007)
• "Sacred Secrets" (2007)

External links

Official Site: http://www.lastfm.es/label/Mr.+Loco/

• http://www.indiestore.com/mrloco
• http://www.indiestore.com/mrloco
• http://www.last.fm/music/Mr.+Loco
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2eU3L0Vvns
• http://www.myspace.com/misterlocoband