No Te Va Gustar

What began in 1994 as a modest high-school guitar-bass-drums trio gradually expanded into the eight-piece ska and reggae force No Te Va Gustar. The addition of percussionists and horn players opened pathways into candombe, reggae, salsa, and ska. By 1998 the ensemble was already drawing sizable crowds at key Montevideo festivals. Its independently issued debut album, Sólo de Noche, appeared in 1999 and moved more than five thousand copies through regional touring and grassroots support. Exhaustive roadwork across Uruguay and Argentina in 2000 and 2001 further strengthened its following. Major-label support arrived for the 2002 sophomore release Este Fuerte Viento Que Sopla, which attained gold certification inside six months. Festival stages holding tens of thousands followed, among them Festival Pilsen and Fiesta Final, both in 2003. The third studio album, Aunque Cueste Ver el Sol, surfaced in 2005 and prompted the band’s first overseas venture, a forty-city European trek. Back in South America the group sold out two successive nights at Buenos Aires’s El Teatro. Footage from the 2006 world tour yielded a live DVD that secured appearances at Pilsen Rock Uruguay, El Pepsi Music in Buenos Aires, and Pilsen Rock Paraguay. The fourth studio set, Todos Es Tan Inflamable, arrived in 2007 and posted immediate, sustained chart performance.