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Also known as | La Banda Timbiriche |
Origin | Mexico City, Mexico |
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Timbiriche (also known for a brief time as La Banda Timbiriche) was a Mexican pop music group. The group started as a children's group in 1981 and managed to evolve successfully into adulthood.
Timbiriche is considered one of the most iconic Latin Pop acts of the 1980s and the early 1990s.[1] It was the start of numerous figures in the Latin American entertainment world, including successful singers like Thalía, Paulina Rubio and Edith Márquez, as well as actors, composers and conductors.
The discography of the band consists of twelve studio albums released between 1982 and 1993, in addition to two compilation albums and two discs recorded live. Timbiriche is considered one of the most popular Latin Pop bands of all time. They have met in three successful reunions. The first occurred in 1998, the second in 2007 celebrating 25 years since the foundation of the band and the third one in 2017, celebrated by a sold out tour.
The band have also starred in a documentary directed by Carlos Marcovich entitled La Misma Piedra that followed step by step the band's adventures in the preparation of the tours, concerts and behind the scenes of its 25th anniversary. In 2007, Televisa also produced a reality show whose objective was to integrate a new lineup for the band.[2]
In 2023, La Nueva Banda Timbiriche (composed of winners from the 2007 Televisa reality competition) reunited for a series of concerts throughout Mexico as part of the El 2000's Pop Tour. Six of the seven original members returned to the band, excluding Alberto Dogre, who is no longer a public figure.[3] The success of the initial tour led to a second leg of shows in Mexico scheduled for 2024. [4]