The Oscar Winner for Best Original Song in 2005, Jorge Drexler is one of the musical icons in this Southamerican country.
Uruguay
The debut album of Los Nuevos Creyentes was arguably the best debut of 2017 in the indie-rock scene.
Piel is a brand new band that has emerged on the Uruguayan indie label La Órbita Irresistible. Their first, eponymous album is a well-polished pop-rock not far away from Vampire Weekend and other bands that rose at the end of the last decade.
Piel is a brand new band that has emerged on the Uruguayan indie label La Órbita Irresistible. Their first, eponymous album is a well-polished pop-rock not far away from Vampire Weekend and other bands that rose at the end of the last decade.
Harvest is a new project of the Uruguayan (but semi-Swiss) multifaceted artist Iael Brener. As she declares, Harvest is “an electro doom pop project” where she put all her fears and demons in music that could sound close to Portishead, Björk or Tricky, but also rooted in doom metal.
Señor Faraón is the solo project of Ismael Varela, the percusionist of the Montevideo-based rock group Hablan Por la Espalda.
Eduardo Giménez was born in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where began his music career 20 years later. First, as part of the rock band Dulce Mosca, and then of Déjame Pensar.
The Uruguayan band Cielos de Plomo is one of the new projects that has appeared in the last year in Montevideo. They have developed a very particular sound and style.