Amateur emerged from the ashes of La Buena Vida, an indie pop group from the Basque country that called it quits in 2011 after one of its members died in a car accident. Eight years later, three of the remaining members -- Mikel Aguirre, José Luis Lanzagorta, and Iñaki de Lucas -- decided to rejoin forces under a new name: Amateur. Their first album, titled
Debut! and released by Sony in September 2017, presented a logical continuation of La Buena Vida's style of pop. ~ Mariano Prunes