Beginnings

La Vela Puerca is a Uruguayan rock/ska band formed in Montevideo, Uruguay on December 1995. Its founders and current members are Sebastián Teysera (lead vocals, frontman and main songwriter), Nicolás Lieutier (bass guitar) and Santiago Butler (guitar). The band\'s first appearance under the name La Vela Puerca was on a street party in Montevideo on December 24, 1995. By then, several new members had already joined in.

In 1996, frontman Sebastián Teysera entered a demo tape into a band contest. The rest of the band did not become aware of this until they found out they were listed among the twenty finalists. It was only a month later that they received a phone call informing them about their success. As a result they were awarded 80 hours of free recording sessions. These sessions would turn out to be vital for the making of their debut album.

Recent History

To this day, the band has released four albums plus a re-release of the first: Deskarado (1997), La Vela Puerca (1999, Deskarado re-release), De Bichos y Flores (2001), A Contraluz (2004), and \"El Impulso\" (2007). \"De Bichos y Flores\" and \"A Contraluz\" were produced by Gustavo Santaolalla

Their fourth studio album has been released under the title El Impulso in April, 2007. The new album contains 13 tracks and was produced by Juan Campodónico.

They have reached a high level of success in Uruguay and Argentina. And some success in Europe, particularly in Germany.

Formally in December of 2008, La Vela Puerca will be 13 years old; they did a special concert in 26 of November of the year 2005 at the \"Velodromo\" in Montevideo, Uruguay, in order to celebrate their 10th. anniversary, showing them in a big screen at their tour from Europe, some past concerts, and so on.

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