Great guitarist and producer, Jose Antonio Romero is one of the hardest workers in the Spanish musical scene, playing with some of the greatest artists, such as Joaquin Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat, Ana Belen, Victor Manuel, Hilario Camacho, etc. He was born in 1958.
HILARIO CAMACHO BAND
Apart from being part of Hilario Camacho Band from the 70s until 1984, Jose Antonio Romero also gigged with him as a duo in 1978:
HILARIO CAMACHO BAND #? |
? |
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Hilario Camacho † guitar, vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar |
Other info on members of Hilario Camacho Band (I know up to 12 members) | |
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Already covered (1): | Sergio Castillo |
To be covered (6): | Paco Bastante, Luis Dulzaides, Jose Antonio Galicia, Juan Maya, Cristina Narea, John Parsons |
Not enough info (4): | Angel Andrada, Hilario Camacho, Tino Charro, Pedro Ontiveros |
QUINTO CONGRESO
I haven´t any data on Quinto Congreso, except that Jose Antonio Romero played there:
They recorded an EP, but folded after a few months.
QUINTO CONGRESO #? |
? |
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Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
They recorded an EP, but folded after a few months.
LA LLAVE
La Llave was a band led by Mercedes Ferrer, but don´t know exact lineup or period. Help, please!:
LA LLAVE #? |
? |
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Mercedes Ferrer vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Other info on members of La Llave (I know up to 5 members) | |
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To be covered (2): | Fernando Illan, Arturo Soriano |
Not enough info (2): | Mercedes Ferrer, Carlos Torero |
MERCEDES FERRER BAND
Jose Antonio Romero also backed Mercedes Ferrer for live concerts:
MERCEDES FERRER BAND #? |
? |
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Mercedes Ferrer vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Other info on members of Mercedes Ferrer Band (I know up to 8 members) | |
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To be covered (3): | Pedro Andrea, Paco Bastante, Billy Villegas |
Not enough info (4): | Vicente Climent, Inma Crespo, Mercedes Ferrer, Carlos Torero |
MIGUEL RIOS BAND
Jose Antonio Romero played with Miguel Rios for some years, but cannot find details:
Romero was part of the live band for Rios´ TV program called Que noche la de aquel año during 8 months.
MIGUEL RIOS BAND #? |
? |
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Miguel Rios vocals | Antonio Garcia de Diego guitar | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Romero was part of the live band for Rios´ TV program called Que noche la de aquel año during 8 months.
Other info on members of Miguel Rios Band (I know up to 52 members) | |
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Already covered (2): | Sergio Castillo, Larry Martin |
To be covered (30): | Mario Argandoña, Jaime Asua, Paco Bastante, Niño Bruno, Doris Cales, Candy Caramelo, Alejandro Climent, Tito Davila, Tito Duarte, Marcela Ferrari, Antonio Garcia De Diego, Ray Gomez, Tato Gomez, Osvi Greco, Tato Icasto, Manglis, Ricardo Marin, Victor Merlo, Carlos Narea, Cristina Narea, Paco Palacios, John Parsons, Javier Paxariño, Javier Pedreira, Kike Perdomo,... up to 30 musicians. |
Not enough info (19): | Ana Belen, Antonio Calero, Jaime Casado, Vicente Climent, Mariano Diaz, Luis Fernandez, Stephen Frankevich, Geny Galo, Daniel Griffin, Maisa Hens, Javier Lechago, Victor Manuel, Fredi Marugan, Jose Nortes, Andres Olaegui, Pedro Ontiveros, Miguel Rios, Matthew Simon, Toni Vazquez |
VICTOR MANUEL BAND
Jose Antonio Romero was also part of Victor Manuel live band, but cannot find proper data about that. Romero played in the joint tour by Victor Manuel & Ana Belen in 1988 (until September), later the Victor Manuel tour:
VICTOR MANUEL BAND #? |
? |
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Victor Manuel vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Other info on members of Victor Manuel Band (I know up to 6 members) | |
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To be covered (2): | Antonio Garcia De Diego, Osvi Greco |
Not enough info (3): | Ovidio Lopez, Victor Manuel, David San Jose |
NACHA POP
Nacha Pop was one of the most dear bands in the 80s in Spain. They called it a day in October 1988 (although they reunited several years later), and they played a special concert that was recorded and released as 80-88. This was the band by then:
Many years later, in 2004, a DVD from this concert was released, with a slightly different setlist as well as a documentary.
NACHA POP #? |
1988 |
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Antonio Vega † vocals, guitar | Nacho Garcia Vega vocals, guitar | Carlos Brooking bass, guitar | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar, keyboards | Manuel Villalta keyboards | Arturo Soriano sax |
Sergio Castillo † drums | Cristina Narea backing vocals | Paula Narea backing vocals |
Many years later, in 2004, a DVD from this concert was released, with a slightly different setlist as well as a documentary.
Other info on members of Nacha Pop (I know up to 19 members) | |
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Already covered (1): | Sergio Castillo |
To be covered (10): | Anye Bao, Fernando Illan, Goar Iñurrieta, Nacho Lesko, Basilio Marti, Cristina Narea, Paula Narea, Arturo Soriano, Antonio Vega, Manuel Villalta |
Not enough info (7): | Carlos Brooking, Nacho Garcia Vega, Esteban Martin Hirschfeld, Diego Illan, Ñete, Jesus Ortiz, Marco Rosa |
RICO
After having played with Nacho Garcia Vega in Nacha Pop, Jose Antonio Romero also played with Nacho´s own project, the band Rico, around 1990:
RICO #? |
? |
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Nacho Garcia Vega guitar, vocals | Carlos Brooking guitar | Fernando Illan bass | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Other info on members of Rico (I know up to 5 members) | |
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To be covered (1): | Fernando Illan |
Not enough info (3): | Carlos Brooking, Nacho Garcia Vega, Ñete |
PRIDE & JOY
Pride & Joy was formed in December 1991 by some of the best Spanish musicians:
PRIDE & JOY #1 |
Dec 91-? |
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Jaime Asua guitar, vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Jose Nodar bass | Sergio Castillo † drums |
Other info on members of Pride & Joy (I know up to 4 members) | |
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Already covered (1): | Sergio Castillo |
To be covered (2): | Jaime Asua, Jose Nodar |
JOAQUIN SABINA BAND
Jose Antonio Romero backed Joaquin Sabina from 1992 to 1998, but no more details:
JOAQUIN SABINA BAND #? |
? |
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Joaquin Sabina vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
ANA BELEN BAND
This was the Ana Belen Band around April 1994:
ANA BELEN BAND #? |
1994 |
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Ana Belen vocals | Antonio Garcia De Diego guitar | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Javier Saiz bass | Mariano Diaz keyboards | Jose Luis Medrano trumpet |
Tito Duarte † sax | Andreas Prittwitz sax | Antonio Calero drums | Marcela Ferrari backing vocals | Maria Lar backing vocals | Mavi Vidal backing vocals |
Other info on members of Ana Belen Band (I know up to 18 members) | |
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To be covered (8): | Angel Crespo, Tito Duarte, Marcela Ferrari, Antonio Garcia De Diego, Osvi Greco, Jose Luis Medrano, Andreas Prittwitz, Patxi Urchegui |
Not enough info (9): | Ana Belen, Antonio Calero, Mariano Diaz, Santi Ibarretxe, Maria Lar, Ovidio Perez, Javier Saiz, David San Jose, Mavi Vidal |
ROSARIO FLORES BAND
Jose Antonio Romero also played for Rosario Flores in 1997:
ROSARIO FLORES BAND #? |
? |
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Rosario Flores vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Other info on members of Rosario Flores Band (I know up to 6 members) | |
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Already covered (1): | Sergio Castillo |
To be covered (3): | Tato Icasto, Fernando Illan, Mayte Pizarro |
Not enough info (1): | Rosario Flores |
ESTOPA
Jose Antonio Romero played with Estopa since 2002, until 2006.
Apart from producing Estopa´s debut album, drummer Sergio Castillo also commanded their live band for their tour promoting Estopa:
I guess this is the mixture of two different live bands (too many musicians, with all instruments repeated). Can someone help me to make this clear, please?
This was another edition of the Estopa live band, but don´t know the period when this happened. Anybody knows?:
And another edition of the Estopa live band, now with Antonio Garcia De Diego and Pancho Varona in the lineup:
And a new edition of the Estopa live band, again with no info on time period:
Apart from producing Estopa´s debut album, drummer Sergio Castillo also commanded their live band for their tour promoting Estopa:
ESTOPA #? |
? |
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David Muñoz vocals | Jose Muñoz vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Jaime Asua guitar | Goar Iñurrieta guitar | Juan Maya guitar |
Luis Miguel Baladron bass | Paco Bastante bass | Tito Davila keyboards | Nacho Lesko keyboards | Luis Dulzaides percussion | Xavi Turull percussion |
Sergio Castillo † drums | Anye Bao drums | Chonchi Heredia vocals |
I guess this is the mixture of two different live bands (too many musicians, with all instruments repeated). Can someone help me to make this clear, please?
This was another edition of the Estopa live band, but don´t know the period when this happened. Anybody knows?:
ESTOPA #? |
? |
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David Muñoz vocals | Jose Muñoz vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Juan Maya guitar | Paco Bastante bass | Nacho Lesko keyboards |
Luis Dulzaides percussion | Anye Bao drums |
And another edition of the Estopa live band, now with Antonio Garcia De Diego and Pancho Varona in the lineup:
ESTOPA #? |
? |
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David Muñoz vocals | Jose Muñoz vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Juan Maya guitar | Antonio Garcia de Diego guitar, keyboards | Pancho Varona bass, guitar, vocals |
El Bandolero percussion | Anye Bao drums |
And a new edition of the Estopa live band, again with no info on time period:
ESTOPA #? |
? |
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David Muñoz vocals | Jose Muñoz vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Juan Maya guitar | Antonio Ramos bass | Jose Maria Cortina keyboards |
Luis Dulzaides percussion | Anye Bao drums |
Other info on members of Estopa (I know up to 22 members) | |
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Already covered (1): | Sergio Castillo |
To be covered (20): | Jaime Asua, Luis Miguel Baladron, El Bandolero, Anye Bao, Paco Bastante, Jose Maria Cortina, Tito Davila, Luis Dulzaides, Antonio Garcia De Diego, Chonchi Heredia, Goar Iñurrieta, Nacho Lesko, Juan Maya, David Muñoz, Jose Muñoz, Alfonso Perez, Antonio Ramos, Xavi Turull, Ludovico Vagnone, Pancho Varona |
JOAN MANUEL SERRAT BAND
Jose Antonio Romero also toured backing Joan Manuel Serrat during 1999 and 2000, but don´t know any further details:
JOAN MANUEL SERRAT BAND #? |
? |
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Joan Manuel Serrat vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Other info on members of Joan Manuel Serrat Band (I know up to 11 members) | |
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To be covered (5): | Roger Blavia, Tito Duarte, Ricard Miralles, David Palau, Joan Manuel Serrat |
Not enough info (5): | Jordi Bonell, Jordi Clua, Albert Cubero, Kitflus, Francesc Rabassa |
PANCHO VARONA BAND
This was the first Pancho Varona Band, assembled in 2002 with great players:
PANCHO VARONA BAND #1 |
2002-? |
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Pancho Varona guitar, vocals | Antonio Garcia De Diego guitar, keyboards | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Paco Bastante bass | Pedro Barcelo drums | Anye Bao drums |
Other info on members of Pancho Varona Band (I know up to 6 members) | |
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To be covered (5): | Anye Bao, Pedro Barcelo, Paco Bastante, Antonio Garcia De Diego, Pancho Varona |
CARABINA 30/30
Jose Antonio Romero was part of Carabina 30/30, formed around 2005, playing four acoustic guitars:
They recorded an album and sold it in their concerts.
CARABINA 30-30 #? |
2005-? |
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Pancho Varona guitar, vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar, vocals | Antonio Garcia De Diego guitar, keyboards | Jaime Asua guitar, vocals |
They recorded an album and sold it in their concerts.
Other info on members of Carabina 30-30 (I know up to 4 members) | |
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To be covered (3): | Jaime Asua, Antonio Garcia De Diego, Pancho Varona |
JOAQUIN SABINA BAND (again)
Joaquin Sabina and Joan Manuel Serrat used these live band for their joint tour promoting the album Dos pajaros de un tiro, from June to December 2007:
JOAQUIN SABINA BAND #? |
Jun 07-Dec 07 |
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Joaquin Sabina vocals | Joan Manuel Serrat vocals | Pancho Varona guitar, vocals | Antonio Garcia de Diego guitar | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Victor Merlo bass |
Ricard Miralles keyboards | Patxi Urchegui trumpet | Jose Miguel Perez sax | Roberto Bazan trombone | Pedro Barcelo drums | Marcela Ferrari backing vocals |
Paqui Sanchez backing vocals |
Other info on members of Joaquin Sabina Band (I know up to 27 members) | |
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Already covered (1): | Sergio Castillo |
To be covered (25): | Jaime Asua, Pedro Barcelo, Paco Bastante, Roberto Bazan, Paco Beneyto, Toni Carmona, Helen De Quiroga, Marcela Ferrari, Antonio Garcia De Diego, Estaire Godinez, Victor Merlo, Ricard Miralles, Cristina Narea, Kike Perdomo, Jose Miguel Perez, Andreas Prittwitz, Oscar Quesada, Manolo Rodriguez, Olga Roman, Joaquin Sabina, Paqui Sanchez, Bob Sands, Joan Manuel Serrat, Patxi Urchegui, Pancho Varona |
FERNANDO MARTIN BAND
Jose Antonio Romero also played guitar backing Fernando Martin under the name Fernando Martin & Ideales, but again, I have no more data:
FERNANDO MARTIN BAND #? |
? |
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Fernando Martin vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | + others unknown to me. Help! |
Other info on members of Fernando Martin Band (I know up to 2 members) | |
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Not enough info (1): | Fernando Martin |
EMITE POQITO
Emite Poqito was a project by Jose Antonio Romero and singer Julia Molano. They started as a duo, gigging, but sometimes they also used backing musicians:
Sadly, Jose Antonio Romero passed away on April 29th, 2019. He was 61. I include this page as a tribute to him, and I´ll be including more credits (both as performer or producer) along the next days.
   18 BANDS (WITH 22 SELECTED RECORDINGS):
   3 ALBUMS AS PRODUCER:
   1 ALBUMS FOR 1 BANDMATES AND FRIENDS:
   5 COLLECTIVE ALBUMS:
   13 SESSIONS (FOR 12 ARTISTS):
EMITE POQITO #? |
2011 |
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Julia Molano vocals | Jose Antonio Romero † guitar | Paco Bastante bass | Juan Carlos Melian drums |
Other info on members of Emite Poqito (I know up to 5 members) | |
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To be covered (1): | Paco Bastante |
Not enough info (3): | Guillermo Galvan, Juan Carlos Melian, Julia Molano |
Sadly, Jose Antonio Romero passed away on April 29th, 2019. He was 61. I include this page as a tribute to him, and I´ll be including more credits (both as performer or producer) along the next days.
   18 BANDS (WITH 22 SELECTED RECORDINGS):
BAND / ARTIST | . | RECORDINGS | ||||||||
Ana Belen Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Hilario Camacho Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Carabina 30-30 |   |  
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Emite Poqito |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Estopa |   | 4 RECORDINGS:
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Mercedes Ferrer Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Rosario Flores Band |   |  
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La Llave |   |  
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Victor Manuel Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Fernando Martin Band |   |  
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Nacha Pop |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Pride & Joy |   |  
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Quinto Congreso |   |   | ||||||||
Rico |   |  
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Miguel Rios Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Joaquin Sabina Band |   | 8 RECORDINGS:
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Joan Manuel Serrat Band |   |  
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Pancho Varona Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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   3 ALBUMS AS PRODUCER:
BAND / ARTIST | . | RECORDINGS | ||||||
An-tonio Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Rosana Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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   1 ALBUMS FOR 1 BANDMATES AND FRIENDS:
BAND / ARTIST | . | RECORDINGS | ||||||
Cristina Narea Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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   5 COLLECTIVE ALBUMS:
BAND / ARTIST | . | RECORDINGS |
VVAA |   | 5 RECORDINGS:
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   13 SESSIONS (FOR 12 ARTISTS):
BAND / ARTIST | . | RECORDINGS | ||||||
Amistades Peligrosas |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Azucar Moreno |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Cafe Quijano |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Luz Casal Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Sergio Dalma Band |   | 1 COMPILATIONS:
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Jose Miguel Diez Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Navajita Platea |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Pecos |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Luis Represas Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Olga Roman Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Rosana Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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Thalia Band |   | 1 RECORDINGS:
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RELATED MUSICIANS:
Jose Antonio Romero mostly worked with these musicians: (name + number of credits)
Paco Bastante (29)
Luis Dulzaides (21)
Antonio Garcia De Diego (21)
Pancho Varona (18)
Sergio Castillo (16)
Juan Gonzalez (14)
Joaquin Sabina (14)
Tino Di Geraldo (12)
Juan Maya (11)
John Parsons (11)
Page created by Miguel Terol on: 30/May/2019 - Last modified on: 31/May/2019. If you want to contribute with info, please write to: molympus1@gmail.com
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