Uruguayan rock
Rock and roll is a musical genre that arose among African Americans in the United States. It began to reach international audiences in the 1950s, including the South American nation of Uruguay. The real breakthrough for rock in Uruguay, however, as in much of the world, was the arrival of The Beatles in the early 1960s.
The Beatles were wildly popular across the world, and many Uruguayan youths began to form their own rock bands. In the mid-1960s, as the British Invasion was peaking in the United States, Canada, Australia and elsehwere, a group of Uruguayan bands like Los Mockers and Los Shakers broke into the mainstream in Uruguay's larger neighbor, Argentina. This was called the Uruguayan Invasion, and it continued for several years, as record labels began signing Uruguayan bands to promote in Argentina.
With the Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina dying down, a new wave of rock musicians arose, including Gnesis, Opus Alfa and Das de Blues, promoted by television shows like Constelacion and Discodromo Show. In 1973, however, a military dictatorship came to rule Uruguay, and the rock boom ended. In 1975, popular music was canto popular, a field that prohibited electric instrumentations and foreign rhythm and styles.
By the mid-1980s, however, Uruguay produced rock stars like Marcelo Cross.
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