Amaya Uranga Amezaga is a Spanish

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 singer, best known for the fifteen years she spent as a member of the Basque

Basque music

The strict classification of Basque music remains a controversial issue, complicated in part by the growing diversification of such music, but by and large it is made in the Basque Country, it reflects traits related to that society/tradition and it is devised by people from the Basque...

 folk/pop sextet Mocedades

Mocedades

Mocedades is a Spanish singing group from the Basque Country, probably best known for representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with the song "Eres Tú"...

. She is a cousin of director Pablo Berger.
Uranga formed Mocedades in 1969 with eight members. After numerous group changes, together with her sister Izaskun

Izaskun Uranga

Izaskun Uranga is a Spanish musician, who with her two sisters Estibaliz Uranga and Amaya Uranga formed the group "Las Hermanas Urangas", which became "Voces y Guitarras" and, in 1969, the well-known Spanish folk group Mocedades....

, her brother Roberto, and three other male members, Uranga came second in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Eres Tú," and the band subsequently launched a hugely successful music career in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 and Spain

Spain

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She was lead singer on many of Mocedades' most successful songs, such as the smash hit "Eres Tú" and "Tómame o Déjame."
Uranga left Mocedades in 1984 to pursue a solo career, although she failed to surpass her success in Mocedades.