It’s clear that we all remember Oopa I saw a race agoWe all remember El Koala, but we go there in parts. Who is the Koala? Well, aside from a marsupial, he’s a man by name Jesús born in Rincón de la Victoria, musician, and who before being the Koala was a multitude of bands: Los Santos Putos, Arte and Duende (from rumba), in another group called Mínima Expresión, Trinidad, Los Restillos, Cien Años, and finally the Ducati. I mean, the guy is a musician as well as a construction worker.
The Koala’s nickname comes from the way it climbed scaffolding when working on the construction site. This style of music is not new in our country. Different generations have had their own Koala. we live with it Fernando Esteso and At Ramona’s, riot 75 there Get out the whiskey cheli or more recently with fast shoe there the yellow tractor.
These are songs that transform us into our more rural selves, the primal being we all carry indoors at city festivals. A place where these songs, after two dyers, have their natural habitat and their raison d’être. “At the village festival, after the fourth or fifth beer, it’s the songs that go well”says the musician, who was interviewed in The SER chain window.
In 2006, everything exploded, he sold more than 40,000 cassettes throughout Spain with Opá yo voy a hacé un corrá. Not only that, the song becomes the sixth most watched music video of this era. It aired at that time on MTV and on YouTube it reached 21 million views.
“It’s been 15 years since we released our first album, we’ve been touring cities for 15 years. We haven’t stopped”, says El Koala, who travels the Spanish geography every summer animating a multitude of patron saint festivals with his characteristic way of singing. In the same way that he encouraged the entire Ser team and all the listeners, improvising his most famous song in a reggae, blues or grunge style à la Nirvana.
You may have forgotten, but this man helped us not to win the World Cup in Germany with the version Oopa, let’s win the world cup. The success of the Koala was such that they even used his song to announce the matches of the national team in Sixth. And indeed, in this World Cup, we ate shit. In 2007 he released a new album Vuelve la burra al trigo, which includes the version of manolo escobar, My car. That on top of that he also had Manolo Escobar himself.
In September 2018, he participated in the sixth edition of Big Brother VIP on Telecinco, saving himself from nine nominations where he reached the final of the reality show, remaining in third place. He does not have good memories of this moment in his professional career. “It’s the only time I accused of living with sons of bitches”is the only thing he wanted to emphasize as an owner of his experience.