Los Prisioneros was a chilean New Wave band formed in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile in 1979. They began as a local band during the early 1980s, playing small shows in their neighborhood and high school. After selling a limited press number of their first album in Chile under the independent Fusión Producciones label, they signed to EMI in 1985, re-releasing the same album on LP record and Cassette formats. From that point on they reached mainstream success in Chile, then Peru.