D’Estrellitas Power was a short lived band from Zaragoza, Spain, that was active just between 1999 and 2000. It was formed by Raquel Palacio, David Sanz and Luis Javier Velilla and released a superb EP called “En el Año 2000” on Jabalina Música (JAB-016) in, needless to say, the year 2000.
Raquel and David were also members of the band Cassino. Actually it seems D’Estrellitas Power short life has to do with Cassino, as them two wanted to focus more on that band and their releases.
After the demise of the band Luis Javier formed the band Alice. He was also on Solo Va, Jafi Marvel and Winter Note.
In any case, we got more than a handful of songs by D’Estrellitas Power, terrific songs to be honest, punchy and fun. The songs on the record were “Siempre en Jueves”, “Estamos en Verano”, “Empanados Fritos”, “Todo da Vueltas”, “Maquillaje” and En el Año 2000″. It is worth mentioning that “Maquillaje” is a cover of the classic song by Mecano.
The song “En el Año 2000” would also appear on a double CD compilation called “Don Diablo Disco I” that was released by El Diablo! Discos (EDD002) in 2000.
That same year the band had the song “Un Día Más” in a compilation called “El Sol Sale Para Todos” that Jabalina (JAN-2017) put out. This song is perhaps my favourite, so good!
As mentioned the band was short-lived but they did get quite a lot of attention by the Spanish radio and press at the time. I believe they also played the Lemon Pop festival in Murcia.
The only other interesting bit I have found is that there is an extended version of the song “Siempre en Jueves” that is about 8 minutes long. David Sanz has uploaded that track to Youtube.
Very little written about them, just the same bio over and over online. Wonder if they had more songs. And yeah, would love to hear of any memories people may have of them!
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