Juan José Palacios

Born in 1943, in Puerto de Santa María (Cadiz), he was nicknamed "Tele" by his grandfather.

For 16 years he played guitar in a group called The Jerrys, which only lasted a couple of performances, and then joined a group called The Players, The Shadows and The Bombina, which lead him to join The Dreamers, and Gong Gazpacho. Once he departed that group, he met Eduardo Rodríguez Rodway and Jesús de la Rosa Luque and they formed the group Triana. After de la Rosa Luque's death and the subsequent breakup of Triana in 1983 (except for an album with de la Rosa's early recorded vocals released in 1986 as a tribute to de la Rosa), Tele decided to reform the group on his own in 1994 under his label Triana J. J. Rock with different musicians, much to the dismay of the other surviving member of that time, Rodway. Some fans were also disappointed, feeling that Tele reformed the group for his own economic interest. The two albums released during that time, "The Electric Garden" in 1997 and "Freedom" in 1998 did not sell very well. Since Tele's death, the 90's lineup of the group reformed and branded themselves Triana without any founding members and released two further albums, which lead to the only surviving member of the group, Rodway, to publicly speak out against it.

In the early 70's, before forming Triana, he married and had two children, one of them being a daughter named Maria.[1]

On July 8, 2002, he suffered a heart attack a few hours after a concert in Lora de Estepa (Seville), Spain and was transferred to the Alcorcón hospital. He was then transferred to the Ramón y Cajal Hospital where he died.[2] He was buried in the churchyard of Villaviciosa de Odon.

• El Patio (1975)
• Hijos del Agobio (1977)
• Sombra y luz (1979)
• Un encuentro (1980)
• Un mal sueño (1981)
• Llegó el día (1983)

• El jardín eléctrico (1997)
• En libertad (1998)