La
Ley (Spanish for "The
Law") was a Grammy Award and two-time
Latin Grammy Award-winning
Chilean
pop rock band formed by Andrés Bobe and Rodrigo
Aboitiz with Mauricio Claveria, Beto
Cuevas and Luciano Rojas. After a failed first album,
Desiertos (1989), they released
Doble Opuesto (1990), which
appears as the official first album of the band.
Singles like
"Desiertos," "Tejedores de Ilusión," and "Prisioneros de la Piel"
made them stars in Chile, Argentina
and Mexico
, especially
after the release of La Ley,
their second recording (1992). After Bobe's death in 1994,
La Ley continued with a new guitarist, Pedro Frugone, and released
two more albums,
Invisible (1995) and
Vértigo (1998).
Before the release of Vertigo, Rodrigo Aboitiz left the band, in
the middle of the tour, bassist Luciano Rojas, left the band as
well and together with the Aboitiz formed a new group named
"Saiko."
Their music became more pop and less experimental, and the
musicians dropped their dark image. Not all of their fans were on
board with the new style, but the last La Ley albums,
Uno (2000) and
Libertad (2003), consolidated the
band as one of the most important in Latin America, earning it a
Latin Grammy award for each of the two albums.
La Ley also performed on
MTV
Unplugged in 2001, and released an album of the
performance, which went on to win a Grammy award. In 2004, they
released a
greatest hits compilation
(featuring three new songs: MÃrate, Bienvenido al Anochecer, and
Histeria) titled
Historias e
Histeria.
In 2005 Rodrigo Aboitiz and Luciano Rojas performed with the band
at the
Viña del Mar
International Song Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional de
la Canción de Viña del Mar) and after a tour around Latin America,
the band said goodbye in Buenos Aires on September 29, to work in
their personal projects, leaving open the possibility for a return
in the future.
Past members
- Luis Alberto Cuevas Olmedo a.k.a. Beto Cuevas (1988 -
2005)
- Mauricio Claveria - Drums (1988 - 2005)
- Pedro Frugone - Guitars (1994 - 2005)
- Rodrigo Aboitiz - Keyboards (1987 - 1991); (1994 - 1998)
- Luciano Rojas - Bass (1988 - 1999)
- Andrés Bobe - Guitars/Vocals (1987 - 1994)
- Shia Arbulu - Vocals (1987 - 1988)
- Ivan Delgado - Vocals (1988)
Discography
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