Manal is a rock and roll music group of Argentine origin, famous for being considered one of the fathers of the genre in their land, along with The cats Y Almond.
His style of music was strongly influenced by what was the Blues from Cream. In fact, they used to call themselves “Ricotta”Before signing a contract with the record company that published his work.
We can also say that his guitar was markedly jazzy at first (a Fender Telecaster), while for his second job he varied by the Gibson SG.
Those who made up this trio were Alejandro Medina on the bass and vocals, Claudio Gabis on lead guitar and Javier Martinez on drums and lead vocals.
Most of the musical creativity came from Javier, who was one of the first drummers of the whole Argentina in being a vocalist and leader of a band, as well as playing drums.
His first work on the streets was a single that included the songs “I feel sorry for you” Y “To be a more man”. The same went on sale in 1968 and was produced by Cassava, the mother of the boys.
This company was the first to edit Rock Y blues within all the Argentina, and practically the first to do so with music in Spanish.
Towards the end of 1969 The band already enjoyed a fairly high relative success, as they had performed in many venues in the city. Federal capital, with his first and second single.
On 1970 they ended the myth that it couldn’t be done Rythm & Blues in Castilian when they released their LP “Manal”. It contained topics such as “Tomato juice” Y “Avellaneda Blues”.
The following year, in 1971, an offer from the international record company RCA led them to create their second job “The lion”Which was not as successful as the first.
Maybe it was because of the commerciality for which the product was intended, or not. The truth is that many fights between Martinez Y Gabis led to an inevitable breakup of the band towards the end of the same 1971.
After the return of Almond, Manal followed in his footsteps, appearing throughout the country during 1980 and presenting an album called “Meeting”.
This tour culminated in the Sanitary Works Stadium and it was called “Bye manal“, And was later edited with the name”Manal in Works”, Precisely the following year.
After this the band went into a deep lethargy from which it tried to resurface in 1987, from the hand of Javier Martinez with virtually no success.
Just in 1994, with Martinez Y Medina but without Gabis, the band was able to hold a meeting at the club The Roxy, where they recorded a live album with all their hits.