The City Council dedicates the new park in Granada to the band 091

The City Council of Granada dedicates a park to the Granada music group 091 in gratitude for “having placed our city in a focus of creation and avant-garde without equal that have made it a meeting place and a key piece of the backbone on the that the panorama of Spanish music rises”. The city thus pays homage to the creators and musicians who throughout the past 20th century have strengthened “our city’s special connection with music, giving recognized names in the different music scenes and who have made Granada today so well recognized. indisputable as a city of music and a city of rock”.

This was highlighted by the mayor of Granada, Francisco Cuenca, during the opening ceremony of the park, which, located in the neighborhood of La Chana, between Encina and Acacias streets, is now incorporated into the street nomenclature with the name of “Los 091 musical group”, with which, as the highest municipal official has recalled, “the Granada City Council attends to the request made by neighborhood groups and platforms”.



In fact, the event was attended, in addition to the members of the Granada band, including José Antonio García, José Ignacio Lapido, Tacho González, Víctor García Lapido and Jacinto Ríos, with the Councilor for the Presidency. Ana Muñoz Arquelladas, and with the president of the citizen platform through which the name Javier Gilabert was requested.

Cuenca has highlighted the band 091, which after their separation returned to the stage in 2016 to present their latest work “La Otra Vida” four years later, as one of the hallmarks of rock and music from Granada, for what he has considered “just and necessary to recognize it as such, and we do it on” the night that the moon rose late, with views of the highest point of the Torre de la Vela”, he has said in reference to some of the lyrics of the most applauded songs of the group from Granada.

For Cuenca, it is especially “relevant” to dedicate a public space in the city to the band from Granada “because it is precisely in the streets, squares and neighborhoods where the city buzzes, “from where the lyrics and songs of the creators are nourished. people from Granada”, he said in reference to the band’s lyrics such as “in the street love hides, in the street I can hear your footsteps, in the street the sun sets and I run towards you”.

The mayor has highlighted “such as the powerful and aggressive style” of the Granada group that began its journey in the 1980s under the name 091, alluding to the number used to call the Spanish National Police, reaped “successes unblemished”, but above all the affection and recognition of an entire city that “felt proud and identified with his music and his artistic career”.

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The City Council dedicates the new park in Granada to the band 091