TYPE OF MUSIC

THE POP MUSIC

The group formed in January, 1996 in San Sebastian with Amaia, Paul, Haritz, álvaro and Xavi.
Initially they were a few simple university students who were touching songs to spend the moment, but that with the time were going to be some of the groups mas known in the world.
Discs extracted more in all these years.
In November, 2006, Amaia Montero decides to leave the Oreja de Van Gogh to initiate his career in solitarily. On September 2, 2008 there appears the first album of the new stage of the Oreja de Van Gogh with Leire Martínez as vocalist.
The group has not lost popularity since Amaia retired and Leire entered the group.

Though they pop is in the habit of identifying as a band of genre rock, this formation native of San Sebastian has played along his five discs of studies with kinds so changed as the ranchera, the bossa nongoes, dance or the electronics. His style also goes according to the so called Donosti Sound or Sound of San Sebastian that alludes to the type of music that with so muchsuccess other groups of pop have interpreted rock original of this Basque city, from the 80s.




THE NEW SINGER



Leire the new singer in the group

Leire Martínez Ochoa San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa, Spain, on June 22, 1979 is a Spanish singer of pop, ex-competitor of Factor X and current vocalist of The Ear of Gogh Goes.In 2008 she was chosen as vocalist of The Ear Of Gogh Goes, replacing this way Amaia Montero.The group offered a press conference on Monday, the 14th of July in the House of America of Madrid, where one presented Leire as new vocalist. In summer of the same year it was the image of the campaign " Sexy Hair " of Herbal Essences.
The first disc with Leire like vocalist was thrown on September 2 in Spain and 30 of the same month in Latin America and A is titled the 5 in the Astoria. The first simple one titles The last waltz, which had the premiere officially in the radio 40 principal ones on Saturday, the 12th of July in the program from 40 to 1. The single obtained Platinum disc in " legal Unloads " and " Legal tones " in Spain. In addition also she obtained Platinum disc for the ventas of At five o'clock in the Astoria in Spain and golden disc in Chile and Argentina.