Fuertemusica 2007 was clebrated on the 29 and 30 of June, in the beautiful setting of the beach in El Cotillo.

This year the festival had a Columbian flavour, with top Columbian rock group Los Aterciopelados (the Velvety Ones).

Fuertemusica 2007

Friday 29th June

Fuertemusica 2007
Concha Buika was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1972, a singer who uses a variety of musical styles - jazz, boleros, flamenco, funk.

Fuertemusica 2007 La Mala Rodriguez is a Spanish hip hop singer, influenced by flamenco. Some of her lyrics having a feminist leaning and others about social issues. She was born in Cadiz, and her music has featured in the sountracks of several spanish films.

Fuertemusica 2007
with La Troba Kung Fu, Joan Garriga, who was previously with Ojos de Brujo, create music to suit a variety of musical tastes,influenced by Catalan cumbia, dub, rumba, vallenato and reggae

Also performing DJ Mario Alonso

Saturday 30th June

Fuertemusica 2007 Fundacion Tony Manero, take their name from the character Tony Manero, the central character of the film Saturday Night Fever. Led by singers Sex Machine and Miguelito Superstar, they began by performing 1970s classic club and dance hits in Barcelona. Now their music is influenced by dance music house, breakbeat, drum'n'bass and latin sounds of mambo-funk and latin-funk.

Fuertemusica 2007
Vanexxa has a punky style, both mysterious and fragile and is one of the sensations of the Spanish music scene.

Fuertemusica 2007 Aterciopelados, the highlight of the festival, hail from Columbia and made their musical debut in 1993.Their style being flamenco combined with Colombian folk music. Andrea Echeverri plays acoustic guitar and is lead siinger while Héctor Buitrago plays bass guitar.