Banghra

Singers / dancers Javi Mota, Lydia Guevara and Victoria Gómez started Banghra with aesthetic urban modern sound, making Spanish fans "rediscover" the contemporary belly dance. Being inspired by its movements, they combined music, dances and exercise in all their songs.

In June 2007, their first album, "La Danza del Vientre" (Spanish for belly dance) became a big sensation of the summer charts in Spain, with songs performed in Spanish and English taking the typical oriental / eastern sounds of belly dancing. The album reached position #3 in the Spanish pop charts.

The DVD version included the first video of the group, making of version of the album, plus an informative article that teaches dance choreographies for many of the songs in the album to the listeners plus a photo gallery.

The first single from the album that made the group famous was "My Own Way",[2] that was the top spin sounded in pop radios in Spain. They had also relative success with their second single release from the album entitled "Promised Land". The latter was included in a compilation album entitled Superventas 2008 that included many other dance tunes from various Spanish and international artists.

The band is trying to build on the early success with a second album released in July 2008 entitled "...a bailar!" with a more mainstream pop style than the first album. They released the Spanish language single "Una especie en extinción" [3] which proved to be a much more minor hit than "My Own Way". They followed that with release of the single "Unidos"

After the split up of the group, the members have pursued solo careers.

• Banghra MySpace page
• Lidia Guevara official website