“A new stage opens in Mägo de Oz and we are very excited“: with these words, the mythical Spanish folk band, which has been around for more than three decades, welcomes its new vocalist, Rafa Blas. In its welcome message, the group has not hesitated to define it as ” a singer with a prodigious and very powerful voice”.

Although he joined the band indefinitely, the vocalist will have to balance his “commitments” this summer previously acquired”, specifically his participation in ‘The Golden Age of Spanish Pop’, a three-hour musical that takes a musical journey through the eighties and nineties, and in the musical show ‘WAH’, a musical and gastronomic show that He arrived in Madrid a couple of years ago.

“Many times they left us for dead, many times we fell, but as long as we have strength and we still have music in our souls we will get up”, point out from the group, in which both Blas and Jorge Salán are already working, who replaces Manuel Seoane on guitar. “Wishing you to see the new formation both in Mexico, and in El Salvador and Guatemala,” they sign. But who is Rafa Blas and where does he come from? And above all, how does he sound?

Rafa Blas, from ‘The Voice’ to Mägo de Oz

The Rafa Blas’s first musical foray was in a group called Matavys, who was born in Hellín (Albacete) in 2005. Matavys’ intention was to merge heavy metal with rock and throughout his life they have come to play with greats in the industry such as Los Suaves. In 2009, Rafa Blas left Matavys to join Nocturnia, a melodic power band with which he recorded an album in 2012. It was that same year when Rafa Blas, at the initiative of his sister, ended up participating in the musical ‘talent show’ ‘La Voz’ in its first edition in Spain: it was in the fifth program when first appeared on television, singing ‘Highway to hell’, of AC/DC.

The song that gave him the victory in the program was ‘The show must go on’, by Queen, after scoring a ‘Livin’ on a prayer’ by Bon Jovi that took him directly to the final. At the gala for the final of ‘La Voz’ he sang, together with David Bisbal, one of the most recognized songs by the classic Spanish pop band Mecano, ‘Hijo de la luna’, in the heavy version of Stravaganzza.

Blas replaces vocalist Zeta, who joined the group in 2012 to replace José Andrëa, who has had health problems in recent years. Zeta left the group permanently last March after having undergone surgery for a back problem; during his ‘breaks’, Rafa Blas had already been one of those who replaced him on stage.