Ana Torroja
| 28 Dec 1959
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Biography
                                         Ana Torroja Fungairino was born in 1959, in Spain. The eldest of six  children, since small played to sing in front of a mirror with a guitar,  and also around the piano that his father played, but never took it as  something serious. When I was around 15 years, meet Jos Maria Cano at a  party, and from there, at the meetings did choirs to Jos, and together  interpreted themes that l was composed. This beloved duo was joined with  Nacho Cano and Ana became the lead vocalist of the trio Mecano, in  1981. This trio is characterized by its excellent compositions and the  dazzling voice of Ana Torroja, who almost always played male roles in  their songs with the group. This group presents in his discography nine  amazing materials: "Mecano" 1982; "Where this fairy country?" in 1983;  "Now comes the Sun" in 1984; "Mecano En Concierto" in 1985; "Between the  sky and the ground" in 1986; "Descanso Dominical" in 1988; "Aidali" in  1991; "Ana |" Jos | Nacho"in 1998 and" Mecano discography "in 2005. On  the radio, the first success that was heard was "Today I can not lift"  and so were going on success after success, among which stand out:  "Child of the Moon", "I Me cuesta tanto olvidarte", "Ay, heavy qu", "The  force of destiny" and "Seven September", among others. In 1990, Ana  worked on two topics of the group "Dr. Livingstone", doing the backing  vocals. After two years, he was on the tour Aidalai 91-92, the cause of  serious problems in the voice of Ana, and this was how Mecano decided to  separate with the promise of returning to the stage in 1994. In 1997,  Ana collaborates singing on the theme "Half moon", on a disk "Comparsa"  of Deep Forest. Not to obtain news of Mecano, Ana decides to launch his  solo career. And in 1997, also introduced its first material called  "Cardinal points", which broke singles artist as: "A contratiempo",  "From" and "like dream of the sirens". That he managed to exploit its  registry to try something in dance-funky and soak tensions with a nice  cartoon in format of tongue twisters, goes on sale another CD with 4  versions remix of the song "as a dream of the sirens". In the most  unexpected time, note the suspension of this last work, because of the  fleeting return of Mecano in 1998, and this was how the disk was  launched to the market "Ana |" Jos | Nacho". In 1999, "Pasajes De Un  Sueno" was released, transmitting a latino and cosmopolitan character of  Ana, with Cuban, Madrid, Basque and English composers. Almost at the  same time, they released their second album Solo, "Now you don't". In  2002, Ana embarks on a tour with Miguel Bos entitled "Turned", by all  Spain, United States and part of Am rica Latina, which lasted a year and  a half. In this same year, he took out his first album completely  dedicated to the public in French-speaking, "Ana Torroja", which follows  "Month Prieres". In 2003, appearing in the musical market "Fragile", is  an album by the hand of Eric Mouquet, which presented its most genuine  pop proposal. In addition, to complete his collaborations and works of  goods, Ana seduced with her voice in the duets performed with Armando  Manzanero and singer/songwriter Aleks Syntek on their 2004 album.