Los Violadores

Emerging from Argentina in the early 1980s, Los Violadores operated as a punk rock band whose members went exclusively by nicknames from the very beginning—Stuka, the Polack, and Pil Trafa. Their debut album, Violadores, appeared in 1983, with Y Ahora Qué Pasa, Eh? arriving two years later and featuring the group’s first hit, “Uno Dos Ultraviolento,” based on the classic Kubrick movie Clockwork Orange. Fuera de Sector followed in 1986 and Mercado Indio in 1987. In 1990 Carlos Val joined Los Violadores to capture a concert at Obras Sanitarias, one of the major venues in Argentina, yielding the live release En Vivo y Ruidoso!. After Otro Festival de la Exageración surfaced in 1991, internal disagreements prompted a temporary breakup the following year. During the hiatus Stuka fronted Stukas en Vuelo while Pil Trafa launched Pilsen. The band returned in 1995, now featuring guitarist Anel Paz and drummer Adrian Blanco, and this configuration issued Otra Patada en Los Huevos in 1996; the same year the greatest-hits collection Violadores Histórico was also released. Lead vocalist Pil Trafa (aka Enrique Chalar) died on August 13, 2021 at his home in Lima, Peru after a heart attack. He was 62 years old.