The Salazar brothers spent thier childhood in poverty, in a shanty home in the Vallecas barrio of Madrid. They left school early for life in the streets, where they learned how to survive and how to make music for enthusiastic audiences. They were later called Preciados Street, where they played and sang for seven years, "the theater which created us." In fact, Casta gained such recognition at their "theater" that the acclaimed Spanish director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon put them in his film "Demons in the Garden," which then went on to win the "The Art of Cinema" award at the Moscow International Film Festival.