Mecano, the group formed by the brothers Nacho and José María Cano and Ana Torroja is a milestone in the history of Spanish pop music. Despite the fact that the group broke up 30 years ago, their music continues to play. In today's Lazos de Sangre program, he has delved into the group's secrets, especially the rivalries between the Cano brothers.
It is no secret that the group's history was especially marked by the ego struggle between the two brothers and the situation of Ana Torroja as a mediator, who on countless occasions had to balance the scales between the Canos. A clear example of this was the moment at the 1989 Premios Amigo in which José María Cano decided, without discussing it with the other members of the group, to dissolve it.
A piece of news that not only felt like a jug of cold water on all his followers, but also for Nacho Cano and Ana Torroja, who revealed in an interview that "I only remember that I cried" and that the first thing he thought was: "and now what am I going to do?"
Mecano was a group that came and swept away, but it wasn't easy for them to stay afloat for so long due to the brothers' personal and creative rivalry. In fact, part of the problem was that the younger brother, Nacho Cano, eclipsed the older one, to the point that there were situations in which the record company did not even pay the bus ticket for one of the two brothers, as revealed in Lazos de Sangre.
Those rivalries between the triumph of one's songs over the other's led the brothers to big fights that forced the record company to take them in separate cars. They also had to keep a stopwatch to measure that the two brothers had the same time on each song and that their creations were balanced on each album.
There came a time when the personalities of the three members, but especially the two brothers, collided so much that the record company decided that from the second album they would record the songs separately.
Mechano breaks abruptly. The main reason for the end of the group is not really known, and probably only José María Cano, who made the decision, knows it. However, the situation of their last tour in which Ana Torroja's voice was so touched by the effort of so many concerts could have been the beginning of the end for the group.
