Manantial was a Costa Rican pop band that formed in 1976 around bassist and bandleader Luis Jákamo, first building its audience through live shows and radio play at a moment when local acts were translating and reshaping international songs for Central American markets while also developing their own arrangements and identity. The group’s early lineup featured key voices including Sergio Garrido and William Fallas, and across the late 1970s into the 1980s Manantial became part of the country’s highly visible “chiqui-chiqui” era, a scene that mixed Caribbean-influenced pop with Latin dance rhythms and turned local bands into household names. During that peak, Manantial’s repertoire leaned heavily on romantic storytelling and immediately recognizable choruses, with “Sereno” emerging as one of the band’s signature recordings alongside staples such as “Llegaré,” “Un Café para Platón,” “Rumores,” “Mía,” and “Cinco Minutos,” tracks that remained closely associated with Garrido’s lead vocal presence in the public memory. In the mid-1980s, Manantial also scored notable radio traction with songs like “Julieta,” reinforcing the group’s place among the best-known Costa Rican acts of the period. After the band’s classic years, Garrido later stepped away from regular performance when health issues affected his voice, and public coverage in the 2010s documented both the impact of that pause and his efforts to pursue treatment with the hope of returning to the stage. In the streaming era, Manantial’s catalog regained visibility through digital distribution under the “Manantial CR” artist tag used by major platforms, making “Sereno” and “Llegaré” readily accessible again and packaging much of the core repertoire into retrospective releases, which served more as catalog curation than a new-studio era.