The Velvet Candles are Spain’s most popular doo wop group. With an style ranging from mid 50’s r&b to the great italo american doo wop groups from the early 60’s, on their more than ten years of life as a group they have been performing all over Europe with great success, they have been in Sweden, UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, Finland…Also they are known for their recreation of Elvis backing vocal groups, especially the Jordanaires, they have toured all over Europe with The Elvis Concert Tour with original musicians that played with Presley and backing Dwight Icenhower.
They Candles have backed some of the bigger names on the rock and roll and doo wop world…Tommy Hunt of the Flamingos, Gaynel Hodge (the Turks), John Cheatdom of the Velours, Norman Fox of the Rob Roys, Larry Chance of the Earls, Jay Siegel of the Tokens, Stan Zizka of the Del Satins and Jimmy Gallagher of the Passions. Not bad for 4 guys and a girl from Barcelona.
With three records released on El Toro Records, they are often regarded as one of the most entertaining acts on the vocal group scene.