The Night Walkers were a Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 rock band

Musical ensemble

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 during the 1960s and 1970s, and were part of the Nueva Ola

Nueva ola

The Nueva ola is a term applied to a loose group of musicians, mainly in Spanish speaking South America, who played and introduced rock and roll and other American and European music of the 50s and 60s to their countries. Artist associated with the Nueva ola reached their peak of popularity in the...

 scene. Originally from Mayaguez, they were discovered by music impresario Alfred D. Herger

Alfred D. Herger

Alfredo Domingo Herger is a famous former Puerto Rican television show host and a psychologist. He has been labeled the Ed Sullivan of Puerto Rico in local media, due to his strong influence in Puerto Rican pop culture and his success as a television presenter.-Early life:Herger, of Spanish and...

. The group debuted in San Juan on the television program, "Kaleidoscopio", and frequently appeared on shows such as "El Club De Las 5", "Fin De Semana Musical", "El Show De Iris Chacon

Iris Chacón

Iris Chacón is a dancer, singer, and entertainer. She enjoys great popularity in Puerto Rico and in other Latin American countries, as well as such US locales as New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.-Career:Chacon has been known by various nicknames, such as "La Bomba de Puerto Rico" Iris Chacón...

", and with Chucho Avellanet

Chucho Avellanet

Armando Hipólito Avellanet González , nicknamed "Chucho" is a Puerto Rican singer and comedic actor...

. Their debut album, Introducing The Night Walkers, was released in 1968 on the Puerto Rican record label

Record label

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, Inca. Members of the band included singer Oscar Solo, brothers Felix Ayala on bass guitar and Fernando Ayala on lead guitar, Jose "Pepito" Valentin on guitar and Enrique "Kiko" Rivera on drums. In 1970, they had success with "Tema de la telenovela 'Natacha'", the theme song from the Peru

Peru

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vian telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

, Natacha, which was sung by Gil Rivera. 'Natacha' was considered one of the first international hit telenovelas (Simplemente María, 1968, being the first), and the song became popular throughout Latin America and among the Puerto Rican / Hispanic communities in the US

United States

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. They disbanded in the 1970s.

Discography

• 1968 – Introducing The Nightwalkers (Inca 1-1004)
• 1968 – Night Walkers (Triunfo TS-2)
• 1970 – Natacha (Borinquen DG-1169)
• 1971 – El Gordo (Borinquen DG-1200)