Ávila’s Spotify Following Grows

You can walk around Ávila, you can smell it, you can touch it and you can also hear it. But not only listening to the silence of the quietest streets or the bustle of children’s areas but through music and in this case those artists who try to make a place for themselves in the musical universe carrying the name of this city as their flag, a choice, of course, that in most cases is linked to their last name.

And it is enough to do a brief search through the main musical platforms to realize that there are dozens of musicians and groups with the stage name Ávila, although only some of them can boast many followers. At Diario de Ávila we have searched Spotify in search of those musicians who carry the name of this province by password.

Within this list of artists who promote Ávila from the stages, in most cases without trying to give popularity to this Castilian province, Los Avila (like that, without the accent) stands out especially, a prominent Mexican northern music group that has more than 1.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

Recognized for their characteristic style of the San Luis Potosí region, the group is called that not because any of its members were born in the lands of Avila but because several of its musicians, family among them, have the last name Ávila. That’s where the name comes from for this group, which among its hits has songs like ‘Ni más rico ni más poor’, which has more than 50 million views on the popular platform, or ‘Tonto mi corazón’, with 47.5 million views, which reflects the loyalty of its many followers.

Although they have many fewer followers than their compatriots, the Avila Boy’s are also Mexican, a musical group that sounded with some force in that country in the 90s of the last century and that currently has more than 21,000 monthly followers on Spotify. Children of the members of the famous Mexican group Los Babys (who on the same platform have more than a million monthly followers), the Avila Boy’s (again without an accent) had a short career but despite that they have some hits such as ‘El Indeciso’ or ‘Y se te vas’, which are close to 300,000 views.

Other popular Avilas on Spotify, again without a spelling word, are the Avila Brothers, an acclaimed American duo of R&B/soul production, songwriting and musicians who have made their last name their stage name. The Avila brothers, Bobby and Issiah, are well known in the music industry for their work with great American artists such as Usher, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan. In fact, the Avila Brothers, who have more than 13,000 monthly views on the music platform, have multiple Grammy Awards for their work in producing and composing R&B songs.

Brazilian producer and DJ Beat do Ávila, recognized in the field of rap and urban music, has more than 620,000 music listeners on the same platform. And also a DJ and music producer is the Spanish Danny Ávila (who again uses his last name as part of his stage name). This Madrid native, who after a period focused mainly on electro house and other similar styles has focused on techno, has more than 670,000 monthly listeners, with his song ‘Morals’ being one of the most popular among his followers on Spotify, with more than a million views.

Also in Ecuador Also with this formula of using the surname in the stage name we find Gonzalo Ávila, Ecuadorian singer and composer of folk/indie pop style, known for songs like ‘Pedacito de Sol’ and who on Spotify has more than 276,000 monthly listeners.

And among those Avila curiosities found on Spotify is a song by Venezuelan singer and composer Alan Wittels titled ‘Ávila’. However, when one listens to the song one soon realizes that it is not the Castilian city that this artist is referring to but the national park and mountain range that separates Caracas from the Caribbean Sea in Venezuela. “But give me, give me, give me your kisses, your waist, your little face, give me a little to prove that, you have me on like the crosses of Avila, I want to spend my Christmas with you, the cold nights are getting warmer, I am changing quantity for quality,” says the artist in his song ‘Ávila’, which has more than 331,000 views.

The other song titled Ávila that can be heard on Spotify does refer to the Avila province. This is a song by Manantial Folk, a traditional music group that recovers and updates Avila folklore and in this song reviews the variety and beauty of the different regions of this province that can also be heard.