| Javi Mota | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Javier Mota Garcia |
| Born | 28 May 1984 Motril, Granada, Spain |
| Genres | Pop, dance |
| Occupations | Singer actor, dancer, model |
| Associated acts | Gypsy Teens, Banghra |
Javi Mota (born Javier Mota Garcia in Motril, Granada, Spain on 28 May 1984) is a Spanish singer, actor, dancer and model.
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Javi Mota started taking dance and music classes at a very young age. At the age of 12, he landed a role in Menudo television show and two years later in the program Veo Veo. In 1999, at age of 15, he became a radio announcer on "La Mañana", a youth music program. In 2000, at age of 16, he won a big casting competition, and became part of the musical group "Gypsy Teens", that was signed to Universal Music Spain S.L. and toured with them giving him great national and international exposure. The band had a number of hit singles on radio and was promoted particularly in France and Germany and was featured, amongst others on MTV, Viva TV, GIGA TV. Still in school, he later on appeared in the youth television program Club Megatrix on Spanish Antena 3.
At 19, study musical theater in the Carmen Roche performing arts school in Madrid. He continued appearing on various music projects as well as television commercials.
In 2003, he started a solo singing career and became a dancer, model and presenter on "Feria de la Moda de Madrid" (IFEMA), a Spanish fashion show, also taking part in local musical theater versions of Flashdance and with musical theater group "La Decada Prodigiosa" and in musical Me voy a Barcelona. He also prepared a solo album in 2005, but failed to make a hit. In 2006, he co-starred in a leading role on the television series Suárez y Mariscal on Cuatro TV and in El Buscuador on Tele5.
His big commercial musical success came in 2007 with the music and dance act Banghra with Lidia Guevara, joined for some time by Victoria Gómez. Signed to Vale Music, Banghra tried to reintroduce belly dancing to the mainstream in catchy songs sung in Spanish and English. In June 2007, their first album, "La Danza del Vientre" 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 single "My Own Way" reached #14 on the singles chart. The band followed it up with the album ...a bailar!, with hit singles "Una especie en extinción" (reaching #27) and Unidos, but the album was a far smaller hit reaching only #54. The band disbanded end of 2008.
After break-up of Banghra, Javi Mota continued a solo musical career and appeared in 2008 in the Nacho Cano musical "A".
In October 2010, he took part in Nacho Cano's Mecandance, alongside Gerard Martí, Antonio Martos (of D'Nash), Cristina Llorente, Edu Morlans, Mariade Vázquez, Ori de la Peña, Lydia Fairén and vocalist Nalaya Brown. Mecandance also released an album containing the songs of the show.[1]
In 2011, he appeared in the music video of "Aquella noche" of Calaita.[2] He also appeared on the Spanish soap opera series Basta Ya!!.
In 2010, Javi Mota took part in the Spanish preselection contest in a bid to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010[3][4][5] to be held in Oslo. He presented the song "Amarte Hoy" written by Roel Garcia and produced by Ivan Vázquez, but failed to qualify.[6]
Javi Mota signed with "Victorya Producciones" and on 14 May 2011 released a new single entitled "Llevaré".[7]
For detailed information on Banghra discography, refer to: Banghra