JAVIER LOSADA

Born: January 16th, 1960, Los Yébenes (Spain)

Nationality: Spanish

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BIOGRAPHY

Since the 1980s, Javier Losada Calvo has worked with Spanish and Latin American artists – sometimes as a pianist (for Alejandro Sanz and Albert Hammond, for example), mostly as an arranger. Orchestrations by Losada were used for recordings with Mocedades, Mecano, Celia Cruz, Azúcar Moreno, and Ricky Martin. Losada also arranged Tino Casal’s number-1 hit ‘Embrujada’ (1983) and recorded an album with Sergio Dalma and the Bratislava Symphonic Orchestra. He set up a recording studio with percussionist Mariano Pérez Bautista.

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

Javier Losada arranged and conducted the Spanish entry to the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest, ‘Todo esto es la música’, performed by blind singer/pianist Serafin. This song, composed by Alfredo Valbuena and Luis Miguélez, finished 14th.

EUROVISION INVOLVEMENT YEAR BY YEAR

1992 Malmö

Country – Spain

Song title – “Todo esto es la música”

Rendition – Serafín Zubiri

Lyrics – Luis Miguélez

Composition – Luis Miguélez / Alfredo Valbuena

Studio arrangement – Javier Losada

Live orchestration – Javier Losada

Conductor – Javier Losada

Score – 14th place (37 votes)