Fandango (Mexican band)
The group consisted of 5 teenage classmates and friends who recorded and released their debut album under EMI Music early the following year.
The pop-music revolution throughout Mexico in the late 1980s was a major inspiration for creating the band in order to compete against other teenager groups such as Menudo, Timbiriche, Flans, and Pandora.
In 1984, a young Monterrey producer named Abelardo Leal had the idea to create a new group made up entirely of women to counteract a wave of "boy bands".
Starting in 1987, their songs and dance steps were memorized by teenagers to be part of teen parties, the first large-scale event of which was the Miss Mexico beauty pageant in Querétaro.
From there, a number of songs garnered a heavy rotation on national radio, namely The Return to My Heart in Eighty Seconds, Irresistible Seduction and A Million Ways to Forget You.
The B-side to the title track single Alta Tension is strongly reminiscent of late 1980s Madonna and producer Jellybean Benitez and enjoyed a bit of South Texas airplay.
Ronald Correa, a local businessman, met Abelardo Leal and convinced the girls to continue on without the participation of the label.
The main reason the group chose to rejoin EMI was to complete their original 5-album contract, even though the label had previously let them out of the requirement.
Marlene completed her studies and is currently host of a children's program in her native Monterrey, where she calls herself "Lore-Lore", Anabella subsequently returned to Mexico City, Rocio married and raised a family, and Sandra lives a normal life out of the spotlight.
Frustrated, and weary of continuing on even with another label and possibly receiving the same treatment, the girls and Leal decided to disband for good.
During mid-2000s, with the revolution of the 1980s back in fashion, including in music, EMI reissued 3 of the 5 discs in both CD and digital download and achieved high sales of both.
Finally, in June of that same year, Alexa, Rocío, Anabella, Sandra, Liliana and Lorena (Marlene) managed to reunite as Fandango for a single concert in Mexico at "Asha Fest" where they performed two of their early hits, A Million Ways to Forget You and Cars, Fashion and Rock 'n' Roll .
On October 27, Fandango, again as a quintet (now without Lorena in the lineup) performed another single show with the group Matute in the Mexico City Arena.
At the beginning of 2019, Liliana left the group, reducing it to a quartet once again, made up of Alexa, Rocio, Anabella, and Sandra, who continued making appearances at different venues.
In September they were introduced as part of the cast of nostalgia project Gira Tour Pop & Rock in which former members of famous groups from the 1980s appeared.
Groups such as Parchís, Timbiriche, Flans, Chamos and others were represented onstage at the first concert, presented on September 27 in the city of Monterrey.
