After his first concert he said:

From the first day I played live and people didn’t leave, I knew that it could work. What I was doing was right, even when only few people went to the concerts. (Biography ‘De Profundis‘, by Javier Menéndez Flores)

Although Dosis Letal life was short, Robe did not give up and moved to Madrid, which would be the first step towards Extremoduro, but before finding his final path in music, he spent some years partying, drinking and trying all sorts of drugs.

In 1987 Extremoduro was founded, a transgressive rock band in which a young Robe actively participates as singer, guitarist and songwriter.

• Initially it only had Kaíto on bass and William on drums, with whom Robe recorded a demo including ‘Extremaydura (Extremeandhard)‘ and ‘Romperás (You’ll break)‘.
• Later Salo would join the band on guitar.

These were very difficult years because they didn’t get any subsidy from the Extremadura government, which they criticized harshly.

• Thanks to the Catalan television, which invited them to a program called ‘Plastic‘, they won some popularity.
• In that performance Robe wore a tunic and a crown of thorns like Jesus Christ. It was quite a transgression for the television of the time 📺

From 1987 to 1989 would be the hardest years for the band.

Extremoduro decided to start selling tickets to cover the expenses of recording their first demo 💰 They sold 250 tickets for few Euros.

Of course, they didn’t have enough money, so they took part in music contest. Although they did not win, a manager of a record company called Avispa got impressed with them and signed them for his label to record their first album Tú en tu casa, nosotros en la hoguera (You at home, we at the bonfire), in 1989, which would later be re-recorded with the title we all know, Rock Transgresivo (Transgressive Rock).

After the disappointments suffered with independent labels, the band receives the opportunity to sign with DRO (later bought by Warner Music) at the end of 1991, with whom their career really takes off.

• With them the band recorded the albums Deltoya in 1992, and ¿Dónde están mis amigos? (Where are my friends?) in 1993, in what would be, in Robe Iniesta’s own words, “the age of chaos”, due to several events in his life…

In 1993 Robe decides to change his life a bit and moves to Barcelona, where he spends all his time writing and trying to record a solo album. He would also form a new band, Q3.

• Faced with the impossibility of recording an album on his own, the members of Q3 replace his former Extremoduro bandmates. With this new line-up he starts a series of chaotic and unpredictable concerts, reflecting his messy personal situation at the time.

Robe was left alone again until Iñaki Antón ‘Uoho’, a good friend of his and member of another great Rock band (Platero y tú), introduces Robe to the ones that would become Extremoduro new members: Miguel Colino on bass and José Ignacio Cantera on drums. Iñaki himself would also join them later.

It was time for Robe, along with Iñaki “Uoho” Antón, to redefine Extremoduro artistically and philosophically 🎶

• From this musical union Agila was born in 1996, a revolution in the rock scene and in Robe’s personal life.
• The album included So Payaso (Stupid), the fan favourite tune.

Although 1996 was the band’s turning point and the peak of success, not everything was positive for Robe, whose father died that year.

In 2002 Robe Iniesta returns to Extremoduro with Yo, Minoría Absoluta (Me, Absolute Minority), his ninth studio album.

• After this CD, the band went on a hiatus during which they released two compilation albums (Grandes éxitos y fracasos, Episodio primero and episodio segundo). Robe, on the other hand, rejoined Iñaki Antón, with whom he founded a music label, which supports young rock bands.

This album becomes a breath of fresh air for the group because, although they continue to deal with the same topics in their songs, they start adding musical resources that they had never used before.

• A year later, Robe publishes El viaje íntimo de la locura (The intimate journey of madness), his first novel. At that time he admited that this book was a revulsive in a period of little inspiration 📖

You spend a long time trying to make song and then… suddenly, inspiration comes and you write them in a moment. That period of creativity, it goes by extremely fast. With the book, the creation process lasts longer. You go to bed with such a good feeling.

From 2002 to 2008 Robe suffers the longest period of musical drought of his entire career. We guess that’s why, when Extremoduro released La Ley Innata in 2008, everyone was fascinated by it.

• It is a concept album with a single 45-minute song, divided into six parts: Interlude, 4 movements and coda; Like a classic work.
• It was the band’s first album to reach the top of the Spanish charts.
• The complexity of the album is maximum and features figures such as violinist Ara Malikian.

Without completely detaching himself from Extremoduro, Robe surprised his fans in 2015 releasing on the Internet a song called ‘…Y Rozar Contigo (…And rubbing with you)‘, an advance for his first solo album, ‘Lo que aletea en nuestras cabezas (What flutters in our heads)’.

• In this work, Robe Iniesta experiments and shows who he is without leaving aside that transgressive rock that always accompanied him during his more than 20 years in the world of music.

I consider myself more of a poet than a musician, but I’m realizing that my poetry is not just lyrics and that it’s increasingly difficult for me to separate one thing from the other. Anyway, what fills me the most is to make beautiful lyrics.

2018 is the time for live music. This takes shape in Bienvenidos al Temporal (Welcome to the storm), the singer’s first album recorded live. Robe compiles in the album all those tracks played on the tour carried out in 2017, belonging to his first two solo works.

In 2019 the end of Extremoduro is announced. We could see it coming because its members, especially Robe, had already taken their own music paths.

In the spring of 2021, exactly ten years after the album La Ley Innata was released, Robe releases a second part called Mayéutica (Maieutics).

• It is a masterpiece that deserves its own article.

In 2022 Robe and his band will continue with their Spanish tour called ‘Ahora es el Momento (Now is Time)‘.