The band started off in
Las Palmas as
Canaries performing
soul music and
rhythm & blues with lyrics in English. Their first album
Flying High with The Canaries (1967) was only released in the US, receiving a belated edition in Spain, in 1985. The singles "Get on Your Knees" and "Free Yourself" became hits in Spain, as a second LP entitled
Libérate! was released in 1970, but they had to disband momentarily when Bautista entered the military service. "Get on Your Knees", specifically, reached triple gold status. Through the first half of the 70s the style of the band became closer to
prog rock, as Bautista increasingly experimented with synthesizers and electronic music. All this came to fruition by means of
Ciclos (1974), a double album that came like a symphonic rock adaptation of Vivaldi's "
Four Seasons". The group disbanded in 1974. ==Discography==