#6: Martín Solana (Hablan Por La Espalda)

Martín Solana a.k.a. Tuka is another old friend from Tidal's
world travellin' days. We met in 2002 when he organized an
amazing show for us in Montevideo. In early 2003 Hablan Por La
Espalda toured Europe and I joined them on that endeavor. We've
stayed in touch but haven't seen each other since then, so this
was a perfect opportunity to catch up and dig a bit into his
band's history, which actually goes back as far as 1996, when
Martín started the band together with his brother Fermín and
Valentín, the other guitarist. Today HPLE is well known and
popular in Uruguay, but it hasn't been an easy road for them.
They famously screwed up a couple of times and for some time even
were Uruguay's most hated band. They upset Brazilian cowboys and
straight edge kids alike, as well as German PC people. Tuka also
talks about the difficulties of getting good music in the
pre-internet 90s in a country like Uruguay and skateboarding and
going to see Guns'N'Roses live for his 13th birthday as the key
events that set off his musical career.