Concerts came plenty together with more TV appearances. In May of that year they released their second single called "Sirenia" which reached No. 1 and stayed on that position for two weeks on TV Music charts. They also released some music videoclips in 1999 which from the start began to call attention as it happened with their first single "What's The Fire" that reached No. 2 on TV music charts competing with other known bands of those years. The band played pubs and concerts and toured frequently to support the album with many appearances on TV and guest interviews.
The album took some time to start gaining momentum. As they explained, it was to be taken as a "history album" as it showed the progress of the band from its dawn up to that point in their career. It contained many songs recorded in early years together with some recent ones. The band had a number of bass players during this period, but it was not until 1994 that the original line-up was set and playing steady.īy January 1997, the band got into the studio to record its debut album called Utopia, produced and engineered by Juan Carlos Oganes and was released in late August of the same year.
At early years many members were tested for musicianship but many weren't up for it. Still, he was very eager to share and do his own musical ideas so he quit the band in 1992 to form Alter Ego. Oganes and Valero were classmates and also long-time friends who shared similar musical tastes Oganes was also a keyboard player in another band during school years which had quite a following but wasn't serious in its intent. Juan Carlos Oganes, lead singer and pianist, and Antonio Valero, guitarist, were playing in a folk band called Yawar Macta playing mainly cover songs of popular folk groups of South America. Juan Carlos Oganes is also known as an actor, audiovisual producer and filmmaker having directed some short and feature films with his company Emporium Digital Studios. Some time after, a new line up was to be formed by Oganes to play new material which was supposed to be released as an album called 'Cinema' back in 1999 before their split. They recorded much material since their first years and many of those songs ended in their 1997 debut album called Utopia.īy the end of the 1990s, friction within the band led to their momentary split in 2000. Alter Ego paid much attention to theatrics and used the cinematographic expertise of Oganes -to create a sense of audiovisual entertainment. The album was produced by him and recorded at Emporium Digital Studios. They combined much of the anthem-type compositions of Juan Carlos Oganes with nice and lush vocal harmonies in the style of Queen and Yes. The band was founded in 1992 by pianist/composer and lead singer Juan Carlos Oganes in Perú (South America), who assembled five other musicians and developed a sound that was rare for the time in that part of the world.
Their style crosses between symphonic rock, hard rock to power ballads and R&B. Alter Ego is the original Peruvian neo-progressive rock band whose style goes from the ever-changing art rock from the 1990s mixed with new sounds from the 1970s.
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