Ignacio Peña

Puerto Rican rock singer/songwriter, musician, producer, video director and editor, and multimedia creator. Peña is known for his warm voice, his songwriting abilites having written songs in different styles of pop and rock in both spanish and english and his conceptual live shows. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Peña rose to fame in the Latin market with the release of his debut album "El Mundo al Revés" in 2000 and the subsequent tour which saw him perform festivals in Argentina, Venezuela, Panama and the United States. "Thanks to well written songs that never fall into triteness, this manages to be a record without a single throwaway track." Billboard Magazine "El Mundo al Revés is a promise of better things to come." The Dallas Morning News " A debut record that sets precedent, in Spanish, and that evokes times past of English Pop and Argentinian Rock." People en Español His albums have garnered critical acclaim and are considered by many to be some of the best rock music to come out in Spanish. In 2010, Peña debuted his most ambitious project to date. An educational multimedia concert designed for schools entitled "The Great Planet Earth Debate". Peña has been invited to speak at educational conferences and universities in the United States and his native Puerto Rico and was awarded an honorary degree from the Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez in Puerto Rico for his contribution to education. From 2015 through 2017, he has been nominated for six NATAS Suncoast Chapter Emmy Awards, winning two for the WIPR-TV Short Subject documentaries "Por Qué Conmemoramos" (Why We Commemorate) and "Soy De Una Raza Pura" (I Am From A Pure Race) respectively. A third one was awarded to him in 2019 for the creation of the documentary "La Historia de Anormal" about the recording and release of his second album Anormal. Ignacio is now looking into Europe with his latest project "Songs for the Fall of an Empire". The first single "Sound the Alarm" will start going out in late 2023.