José Manuel González Mena «Manolo Mena»

José Manuel González Mena was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1952 and died in 2009. He began his musical activity at the age of fourteen directing the children's choir of Santa María del Mar parish, later joined The Satellites and The 5 Dynamics, and founded the group Los Majuelos de Taco.

From 1975 to 2007 he was a soloist with Los Sabandeños. He had a tenor voice linked to malagueñas, folías, isas, boleros and ballads, and took part in recordings such as Himno a la Lucha Canaria and the song Tenderete alongside Dacio Ferrera. His profile should be understood within the collective career of Los Sabandeños, a Tenerife group associated with the dissemination of Canarian popular repertoire.