Baccara - Discomania (2001)

A Spanish band Baccara became popular at the end of the 70-ies, the most famous hits being «Cara Mia», «Sorry I’m A Lady». Baccara sold the most copies of their single and featured in the Guiness Book of World Records, as the highest selling female band. The band members have changed over the years and the current team is different to the original ones. The original band singers Mayte Mateos and Maria Mendiola met during one of the Spanish ballet troupe’s tour. They decided to form a music band by singing cover songs in clubs and hotels. Shortly after that they met their first producer from RCA studio. Together they released their first single «Yes Sir, I Can Boogie», which was instantly at the top of all music charts and loved by the audience.

The first studio album that became platinum twice was released in 1977. At the same time Baccara performed at a prestigious music festival in Tokyo, where they ended up being 14th. In 1978 Baccara were representing Luxembourg at the Eurovision song contest. Starting from late 70-ies the band often on TV, loved by European as well as the Soviet Union fans. In a few years’ time one of the band members was raising her concerns about the quality of the audio, which resulted in change of their production company, failure of their forth album and the end of Baccara.