9 best DISCO music GROUPS – EspectculosBCN

Flared pants, glitter, lots of color and songs etched in memories are the legacy of disco music. Thanks to the disco groups, precursors of genres such as house, dance and electro, many barriers were broken and the love for dancing and partying became universal. In BCN Shows We are going to make you dance with the best disco music groups.

Disco music defined the tone of youth during the 60s and 70s. The musical groups were quite successful because in addition to the music they could integrate choreography and different personalities, making them more recognizable.

Discover the best disco groups of all time

In the 1980s, disco music lost the radio hegemony that it had in the previous two decades, but it continued to produce great successes. Even after the infamous Disco Demolition Nightthe disc knew how to mutate and contribute to the birth of other dance genres. Bring your flared pants and join the party, let’s remember the 9 best groups of disco music!

abba

These four in swedes broke the tracks on every continent between the 60s and 70s. The group made up of two married couples decided to use the acronym of their names to title the band. They knew international success after participating and winning the Eurovision 1974.

The most famous song and named by many as the perfect dance pop song, it is Dance Queen. Although the song was composed many years before, it was shown for the first time at the swedish royal wedding of 1976. They assured that the inspiration had been the recently crowned queen, Syivia Sommerlath, and although it was not true, it fit perfectly.

dancing-queen it came out of the royal palace onto the radios and was a musical hit that no one expected. It was the first time that a Swedish group entered the popularity charts in countries as dissimilar as the Soviet Union, Japan and Turkey.

Syracuse

Siracusa is another of the best disco groups. One of the most successful groups spanish disco music we find the one formed by Ramón Arcusa and Manuel de la Calva, Siracusa.

The group generated the instrumentals, and for Give your love hooked up with Phil Trim of the Pop-Tops. Ramon Arcusa, who came from the successful Dynamic duo, knew how to pay off the success of the theme and produced a version for Julio Iglesias.

bee gees

Leaders of one of the most disputed categories of rock and pop music: that of the Familiar groups. There are many bands formed by brothers and few that have survived in time like the Bee Gees. Certainly, they had their problems and separations a couple of times, but they remained in business for more than 50 years and only death separated them definitively.

The producer of saturday night feverwhich would become one of the hit movies of the 1970s, asked the band to write some songs for the soundtrack. The success and reach was such that only the use of the song in the movie trailer positioned them on the radio list.

staying alive It’s a danceable and catchy song, but it’s about a very serious reality, and it was about survival in the dangerous streets of New York in the 70’s. Relive this musical phenomenon here!

chic

According to music critics, it is the disco’s most distinctive band, and manages to concentrate the essence of the genre in all its splendor. Chic’s sound was so influential that other genres have incorporated it to create themes and styles of their own.

you freak It is one of his successes with the greatest international exposure. the inspiration of you freak It was a rather peculiar story. The members of Chic were invited to the Christmas party of Studio 54the famous discotheque. But entry was denied and they were asked to vacate the premises, the segregationist wall continued to function well. With anger and frustration they gathered at the house of one of the members and they composed a dance anthemfreak him out.

The Weather Girls

The Weather Girls is another of the best disco music groups. East music duo American was made up of two former backup singers of other famous singers. They gathered their talent in 1977 and decided to name themselves Two Tons o’ Fun then they would definitely change it for The Weather Girls

Its raining man, was going around the hands of many groups and singers without much success. Finally, he came into the hands of this duo and they turned him into a gay community totem pole and the dance floors of the moment.

Earth, Wind & Fire

One of the most iconic bands of the disco era, not only because of the top level musicians who passed through their ranks, but by the multiculturalism and spirituality that filled all their expressions. In fact, the name comes from founder Maurice White’s particular taste for zodiac signs.

This characteristic allowed them to be inserted in multiplicity of ethnic and musical groups that they could identify with any of the mystical expressions that the band shared. let’s groove is one of his most popular themes and with which hit the music charts of the time.

village people

A group custom built and designed for success with the typical stereotypes to which the gay community responded well. The band was made up of marketing strategy ready from the start. But the creativity and bombast of music and performances achieved their goal. Village People became a phenomenon of the disco era.

YMCA It is one of his most resounding dance hits, and obviously being an emblem of the gay community, it was not without controversy. YMCA is the acronym for Young Men’s Christian Association, a Christian organization for youth guidance. The organization I try to sue the band, but with an out-of-court settlement the lawsuit was withdrawn. The song’s signature dance was added later, but it’s also iconic, check it out below.

The pointer sister

Four of the Pointer sisters got together to sing in their father’s church choir. after some years they achieved stardom equally together but in the disco genre. His successes are considered the last musical thrust of the disco eraand closed the cycle of an unforgettable genre.

Im so excited already exhibits the mergers that would slowly replace the record: the dance-pop, eurodance and house.

Boney M.

The sounds of Boney M and the eccentricity of their presentations and its musicians turned them into one of the most recognized European bands. The roots Afro-German of the band of Caribbean people based in Germany took the disco world by storm in 1974.

Daddy Cool is one of his most memorable songs, not only because of the rhythm, but because of the fabulous performances who were always with him.