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{{Short description|Spanish band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name              = Duncan Dhu
| image             = [[File:Concierto Duncan Dhu Mikel Erentxun Sonorama 2014.JPG|233px]]
| caption           = Vocalist Mikel Erentxun performing with Duncan Dhu, August 2014.
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| background        = group_or_band
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| origin            = [[San Sebastián]], [[Gipuzkoa]], Spain
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Rock en español]] [[rockabilly]]|[[soft rock]]|[[pop rock]]}}
| years_active      = 1984–2001, 2013–2016
| label             = {{hlist|[[Grabaciones Accidentales|GASA]]|[[DRO Records]]|[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner]]}}
| website           = 
| past_members      = [[Mikel Erentxun]]<br/>Diego Vasallo<br/>Juan Ramón Viles
}}

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'''Duncan Dhu''' is a Spanish group created in [[San Sebastián]], [[Spain]] in 1984. Its original members were [[Mikel Erentxun]] (former singer in "Aristogatos"), Diego Vasallo and Juan Ramón Viles (former members of "Los Dalton"). Nowadays, it mainly consists of Mikel and Diego.

==History==
The group's style was based on an acoustic and simple pop-rock with a touch of rockabilly in great contrast with the more [[Basque Radical Rock|radical rock played in the area]] at the time. After being signed by [[Grabaciones Accidentales]], S.A. they contributed with two songs (''Mi Amor'' and ''Bésame Mucho'') to the new bands compilation ''La única alternativa'' (''The Only Alternative'').

In 1985 the group recorded its first album, ''Por Tierras Escocesas'' (''Around Scottish Lands''), and ''Canciones'' (''Songs'') a year later, both produced by Paco Trinidad. The songs were immediately successful and gave the group big popularity. After even more successful ''El Grito del Tiempo'' (''Cry for our Times'', 1987) and ''Grabaciones Olvidadas'' (''Forgotten Recordings'', a compilation of B-Sides, 1989) it became a duo and recorded the double album ''Autobiografía'' (''Autobiography''), with collaborations by [[Black (English band)|Black]] and [[Sam Brown (singer)|Sam Brown]] among others. The album was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album|Best Latin Performance]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-11/entertainment/ca-8578_1_phil-collins/4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105122845/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-11/entertainment/ca-8578_1_phil-collins/4|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 5, 2012|title=Grammys--Round 1 : Pop music: Phil Collins' 8 nominations lead the pack and Quincy Jones sets a record with his 74th nod. The winners will be revealed on Feb. 20.|first=Richard|last=Cromelin|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=3|accessdate=April 8, 2015|date=January 11, 1991}}</ref> The group later also had several hits such as ''Esos Ojos Negros'' ("Those Black Eyes"). The group finally ceased to exist as a band after the release of "Crepúsculo y Crudités" (''Sunset and [[Crudités]]''), which was more orchestrated and softer than its older music.

The group's most-known hit is ''En Algún Lugar'' ("In Some Place" / "Somewhere"). The song was initially featured in ''Canciones'', but it was the remix included on ''El Grito del Tiempo'' that became widely popular.

The name Duncan Dhu comes from the book ''[[Kidnapped (novel)|Kidnapped]]'' by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], in which there is a character named Duncan Dhu, who is a lover of music.  "I need not say if I was pleased to see him; Mrs. Maclaren, our hostess, thought nothing good enough for such a guest; and as Duncan Dhu (which was the name of our host) had a pair of pipes in his house, and was much of a lover of music, this time of my recovery was quite a festival, and we commonly turned night into day."

==Members==
* [[Mikel Erentxun]] – lead vocals, guitars
* Diego Vasallo – bass guitar
* Juan Ramón Viles – drums, percussion

==Discography==
*''Por Tierras Escocesas'' (1984)
*''Canciones'' (1986)
*''El Grito del Tiempo'' (1987), Cry for our Times (1987, published on Les Disques du Crépuscule, TWI 876)
*''Grabaciones Olvidadas'' (1989)
*''Autobiografía'' (1989)
*''Supernova'' (1991)
*''Piedras'' (1994)
*''Teatro Victoria Eugenia'' (1995)
*''Colección 1985-1998'' (1998)
*''Crepúsculo'' (2001)
*''El Duelo'' (2013)
*''1'' (2013)

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