La Casa Azul

La Casa Azul, a Spanish pop ensemble, started merging the buoyant pop textures of acts including ABBA, the B-52's, and the Beach Boys toward the close of the 1990s. Producer and songwriter Guille Milkyway assembled the project, which advanced from indie-pop margins into Spain's Top 40 through the specialized imprint Elefant Records. The original roster comprised five performers—David, Virginia, Oscar, Clara, and Sergio—who appeared in the band's nostalgic videos and cover imagery, yet every musical element originates solely from Milkyway. The debut album El Sonido Efervescente de la Casa Azul surfaced in 2000. Visibility expanded via broadcast slots on programs such as Zona Disney and Música Uno. February 2005 brought the hit single and video "Como un Fan," which drew the project's widest audience to date and prepared Spanish listeners for the 2006 reissue of the first record. The third studio album, La Revolución Sexual, entered the Spanish Top 40 after its 2007 release and ranked among Elefant Records' strongest commercial successes. One cut from that set, "La Revolución Sexual," placed as a finalist in Spain's Eurovision selection process in 2008 without securing the national entry. Following a hiatus and the singles-and-remixes compilation La Nueva Yma Sumac: What the Revolution Left Us, Milkyway supplied incidental music for the 2009 film Yo, También, wrote and performed its theme song, and received the Best Original Song award at the 2010 Goya Awards. La Casa Azul reemerged late that year with the single "Todas Tus Amigas" before devoting 2011 to new material; La Polinesia Meridional arrived to strong reviews and sales in November 2011. Over the following seasons Milkyway composed for films, recorded the Nino Bravo tribute En Libertad in La Casa Azul style in 2013, judged the talent series Oh Happy Day, contributed tracks to the children's program Jelly Jamm (whose soundtrack Elefant issued in 2013), and expanded exposure through DJ sets and festival appearances. By the time new La Casa Azul music appeared in early 2019 with the album La Gran Esfera, Milkyway had folded modern elements such as trap beats and radio pop into his established palette of disco and upbeat pop.