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Cetu Javu
Band Germany
Cetu Javu formed in Germany. Cetu Javu has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–1994. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Have in Mind”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #20. The station that charted Cetu Javu most often is Live 105 (San Francisco, CA), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
Cetu Javu were a synth-pop band out of Hanover, Germany, with a sound built for the club: glossy keyboards, big melancholy hooks and a singer with a flair for the dramatic. Javier Revilla Diez sang, Chris Demere played keyboards, and Stefan and Torsten Engelke completed the lineup. Revilla Diez was born in Germany to parents who had come from Spain, and while most of the songs are in English, a few switch to Spanish.
That mix gave them a string of dance hits, "Situations", "Have in Mind" and "A Dónde", and two albums, Southern Lands on ZYX in 1990 and Where Is Where on Blanco y Negro in 1992, before they called it a day in 1994.
What happened next is one of pop's stranger second acts. Revilla Diez became a geography professor at Leibniz University Hannover, and since April 2014 he has held a chair in human geography at the University of Cologne. He stayed out of the media for 25 years, until he finally told the band's whole story in a 2020 interview with the Spanish radio host Miguel Moreno.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cetu Javu on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Have in Mind | 5 | #20 | – | 1989 | |
| 2 | Situations | 3 | #22 | – | 1988 | |
| 3 | A Donde | 1 | #194 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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