Luis Cardenas is a Latin-American drummer who has been active since the early 1980s, both as a solo act and as a member of the rock band

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Renegade was formed in California in the early 1980s by Cardenas and the band's manager/producer Kim Richards and were unusual in being ethnic

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s playing rock music. Widely viewed as teen idols, the band headlined the Saturday nights of the Los Angeles Street Scene Festival in both 1985 and 1986, with audiences of 150,000 in attendance. They released four albums, ''Rock n' Roll Crazy'', ''Renegade II – On the Run'', ''Nuns on Wheels'' and ''Renegade Live'', with their major success coming in California, Mexico and Japan. Renegade played around the world and at music festivals with bands such as

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, Foreigner, Journey and

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, and in the late 1980s were asked by

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to appear on the Texas-New Mexico Border with

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and

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to support Rogers'

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effort. In 1990, the band was featured in a 98-minute television special aired on

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internationally, entitled ''Renegade MTV Special''. Renegade reformed in 2000 and was honored in August 2001 at a

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-hosted event at the

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in Los Angeles for record sales in excess of 30 million units worldwide.

Solo projects

In 1986 Cardenas held the world record for having the world's largest drumkit, which he demonstrated on the ''Guinness Hall of Fame Awards'' TV show hosted by

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. The same year Cardenas released a solo album entitled ''Animal Instinct''. The first single from the album was a cover of the

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song "

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" and became a hit in the US, peaking at number 83 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The video for the single featured cameo appearances by Shannon and

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and cost $500,000 to make, reputedly the most expensive video ever made for a single at the time. It won a nomination for Best Music Video, Short Form at the

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. Cardenas followed "Runaway" with the self-penned "Hungry for Your Love", which featured

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and Cardenas's pet tiger Bundi in the video, but the single did not match the success of "Runaway". The album ''Animal Instinct'' was reissued on March 6, 2012, featuring bonus tracks and the videos for the singles. The re-release of ''Animal Instinct'' was due to precede the release of a new double album by Cardenas entitled ''Generations'' that was to include Cardenas's two sons Nick and Zach Cardenas and was planned for release later in 2012. However, in a press release sent out by Allied Artists on October 15, 2012, it was announced that the album "will not be distributed at this time, and no new date has been established".

References

External links

Luis Cardenas official WebsiteRenegade official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cardenas, Luis American musicians of Mexican descent American rock singers Living people Chicano American rock drummers Chicano rock musicians Hispanic and Latino American musicians Year of birth missing (living people)