With a Recession at Home, Spanish Bands Look to Mexico for Opportunities EFE
go to original March 24, 2013

Spain's Love Of Lesbian performed 'Allí Donde Solíamos Gritar' at Vive Latino 2013 in Mexico City earlier this month. (thediarist)

MEXICO CITY - Spanish musicians are looking to Mexico for opportunities amid the deep economic recession that has hurt music sales and dampened concert attendance in their homeland.

Mexico is a dynamic market that offers Spanish musicians the chance to keep sharing their work with the world and earn a living from their art.

Carlos Garcia, director of planning for the Spanish Music Producers Association, or Promusicae, plans to travel to Mexico and the United States in coming days to try to find new markets.

"With the Spanish market having dropped so much, one of the increasingly necessary options is to go outside, both for the groups and their managers, and the music companies," Garcia told Efe in a telephone interview.

Mexico is the No. 3 market for exports of Spanish music, trailing only the European Union and the United States, and is the market growing the most in Latin America, the Promusicae official said.

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