User:OI-13-i.pastor

Leiva is the artistic name of José Miguel Conejo Torres (Madrid, april 28th 1980), a spanish musician and songwriter. Between 2001 and 2010 he led with Ruben Pozo the pop rock band Pereza, with which he recorder 6 albums. After the dissolution he started his solo career.

Biography
He was born and raised in the neighborhood of Alameda de Osuna, in the northwest of Madrid. His great love of football coupled with its strong resemblance to Leivinha, the Brazilian footballer, who at that time played for Atlético de Madrid, which is confessed follower, earned him the nickname Leiva, who would use later as a stage name. His first contact with the world of music occurred in 1994, when he became part of the Malahierba band in which he played drums. In 1998 he formed a band together with Rubén Pozo and drummer Tuli with the intention of making versions of the group Leño, and subsequently evolve and become the band Pereza, whose first album, Pereza, which was published in 2001, but without much success. From the second album, Algo para cantar (2003), the formation of the group is reduced to two, Leiva and Ruben, and it is from here and especially with the next album, Animales (2005), when fame comes and consolidate Pereza as one of the most important bands of the national pop rock. After these three albums, they publish Los amigos de los animales (2006), Aproximaciones (2007) and Aviones (2009), after which, in September 2011, both components announce their decision to park the group and start solo careers. The first solo album of Leiva was Diciembre (2012), produced by himself and received positive reviews and awards such as the Rolling Stone Award for best album of the year or two Latin Grammy nominations. In January 2014 came out his second solo album, titled Pólvora, a co-production with the Spanish musician Carlos Raya and Joe Blaney as soundman.

With Pereza
2001: Pereza: is the only album in which there are three members (Ruben, Leiva and Tuli). 2002: Algo para cantar: there are not 3 members, but 2: Rubén and Leiva. The press starts to talk about them. 2003: Algo para encantar, DVD. 2004: Algo para cantar (special edition). 2005: Animales: "Princesas" became the single that reached great success. 2005: Princesas, DVD. 2006: Los amigos de los animales, (+DVD). 2006: Barcelona (DVD + CD). 2007: Aproximaciones: on this album, there is a song that ends just as a song of Gun'sn'Roses 2009: Baires, libro CD y DVD.: 2009: Aviones. (+DVD): on this album we can find more romantic songs like "Llévame al baile" 2010: 10 años

Solo
2012: Diciembre: the first solo album by Leiva, despite his individualization does not lose followers. 2014: Pólvora: his latest album has exceeded its own exspectativas. A disc that has been very successful and is expected to be more successful than the first.